W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.”
Source: A Novel Bookstore
“We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life”
“We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.”
“We want change, change not from body or mind of mine but from this pandemic rulers.”
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”
“We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.”
Source: Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer
“We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.”
“We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'”
“We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.”
Source: Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s
“We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
“We want desperately to believe that every mother falls in love with her baby at first sight and that the complexity of relationships, so evident elsewhere as part of the human condition, is totally absent from the connection between mother and child.”
Source: Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt – An Eye-Opening Resource on the Cultural Taboo of Maternal Behavior and Psychological Effects
“We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,’ and I thought I’d better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn’t belong to, ‘want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that’s what they want. That’s the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.’
‘Bollocks,’ said Ronnie.
‘That, of course, is the other main difference.”
Source: The Gun Seller
“We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.”
“We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.”
“We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.”
“We want everybody to think about what's in their interests. And I believe that our Democratic party platform has a better vision and better actually pathway for white Americans, as well black Americans, Latino Americans, women, and so forth, to be successful.”
“We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.”
“We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is 'nasty, poor, brutish and short', but today we are AWASH with time.”
“We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings that we are, we will not be put off with a part. Give us only everything, and we will be content. And, after all, Cinderella, you have had your day. Some little dogs never get theirs. You must not be greedy. You have KNOWN happiness. The palace was Paradise for those few months, and the Prince's arms were about you, Cinderella, the Prince's kisses on your lips; the gods themselves cannot take THAT from you.”
Source: The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.”
“We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.”
“We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.”
“We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again.”
“We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.”
“We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.”
“We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.”
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.”
Source: By any means necessary
“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries...I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.”
“We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.”
“We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.”
“We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].”
“We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.”
Source: Brokenness: The Heart God Revives
“We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.”
“We want Harvey Weinstein in prison. We want Brock Turner to have a longer sentence. We want Judge Aquilina to sign Nassar’s death warrant. We rely on a third party to take these ‘bad men’ away, usually in the form of an institution or the state. And this White Knight or Angry Dad is patriarchy personified. This is how our outraged activism fails to dismantle the intersecting systems of heteropatriarchy and racial capitalism that produce sexual violence – and strengthens them instead.”
“We want her to learn how she can see difficulties as opportunities. And, ultimately, how God can and will use hurt in her life - even big hurt - for her good and His glory.”
Source: Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World | Parenting Guide | Help Your Girl Overcome Anxiety & Improve Mental Health
“We want his power more than his purity.”
“We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.”
“We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.”
“We want intimacy with others. In fact, we might crave it. But since we’ve never fully experienced bonds of trust, we don’t allow intimacy into our lives. So we keep it at bay.”
“We want it to be a post- election coverage of the president-elect.”
“we want it visible
to show
when even the most
visible joy
will reveal itself
only when we have
transformed it within.
there’s nowhere, my love, the
world can exist
expect within.”
“We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( "Everybody his story" )”
“We want lifelong good health and an end to fearing the aging process. By combining the fruits of modern neuroscience and timeless wisdom, you can achieve those goals. That is what your brain is designed for. The key is realizing that you are the user of your brain.”
“We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.”
“We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth.”
“We want many things. But few things is needful.”
“We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen”