W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.”
“We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that...it's a lion.”
Source: Boy Princess, Volume 2
“We should've built a life from the stars and the sea and the sand. And I should've listened to her—she told me almost nothing, but she did give me clues, and I know now that she put signs in her words and expressions that were as clear as the constellations over our heads.”
Source: Shantaram
“We should’ve stopped… but we didn’t.”
Source: Raiders: Friends in Low Places
“We should've waged a war against poverty and not the impoverished.”
“We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.”
Source: Parts of animals
“We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.”
Source: More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well
“We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.”
“We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.”
“We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.”
“We should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not just pitch a tent and camp there.”
“We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.”
“We should want our advertising to be compelling.”
“We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.”
“We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.”
“We should wash our destiny the way we wash our body, and change life the way we change clothes – not to preserve life, as when we eat and sleep, but out of objective respect for ourselves, which is what personal hygiene is all about.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“We should wash our dirty linen at home.”
“We should wear whatever we think looks nice and wear it with confidence. That will put you in a good mood and I think it will lead to an abundant society”
“We should welcome applause whenever it comes.”
“We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
“We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.”
“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things”
Source: Synopsis
“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.”
Source: Synopsis
“We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.”
“We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.”
“We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.”
“We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.”
“We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.”
Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
“We should worship as though the deity were present.”
“We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.”
“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.”
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance.
We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul. We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”
“We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.”
“We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.”
“We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them.”
“We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.”
“We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.”
Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
“We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.”
“We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.”
“We shoulder the unbearable, accomplish the impossible, and endure the unthinkable by the intensity of our love.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
“We shouldn't be afraid of the obvious, because stories are about life, and life is full of obvious things like food and sleep and love and courage which you don't stop needing just because you're a good reader.”
Source: Dæmon Voices
“We shouldn’t be against each other. Wisdom is truth, and truth is wisdom! It is all about how we tell the story. It is about who tells the story!”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“We shouldn't be doing this." Dan broke the silence, his voice low. "We would both get in trouble." He stood up. "Let's go back."
"We shouldn't be doing what?" I scrambled to my feet. "What exactly are we doing?"
"This."
"You mean consorting?"
"Sure, consorting. Cavorting. Carousing." He paused to take a deep breath.
"Kissing." Then he leaned in and pressed his mouth to mine.”
Source: Past Perfect
“We shouldn’t be forced to choose at all. The fury in Aida’s voice was familiar. Nostalgic. I’d once possessed that strain of fury, as had my fellow cooks, my friends, my produce guy, a virulent rage against our tainted inheritance of this stupid, smog-choked planet. But it couldn’t last. We’d been inoculated from rage by other, more immediate concerns. For example: how to pay rent, how to stay alive. Aida, rich as she was, hadn’t been forced to choose between anger and dinner. For the first time in years, I tasted, through her, that feeling.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“We shouldn't be reassured, either, when a partner insists that they have no interst whatsoever in any other human on earth. We should wonder what they are opting not to tell us about and why - and feel sad that we haven't as yet established a sufficient atmosphere of trust for the beautiful peculiarities of the sexual mind to be safely explored.”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.”
Source: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education