W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We want to get another one.”
“We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.”
“We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.”
Source: The Outline of History
“We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”
“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.”
“We want to get to a point where Twitter highlights lead to purchase of a live game”
“We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.”
“We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?”
“We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.”
Source: Young India
“We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.”
“We want to have a diverse workforce that mirrors our customer base. Diversity of thought, we believe, is crucial to business success. We also are a tech company. And when we look at the skills that we need going forward, software engineers, electrical engineers, strong technology backgrounds, that's key for success as well.”
“We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.”
“We want to have an exclusive estrogen quadringling shindig.”
Source: Maximus: His sexperiences and sexventures
“We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.”
“We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us, then I tell them: Don't keep attacking us as you have done for the last years.”
“We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.”
“We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.”
“We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law, intellectual property rights, lower their taxes to our barriers, that`s good for us, and that is something that I do believe that President [Donald] Trump agrees with.”
“We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.”
Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice
“We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.”
“We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.”
“We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.”
“We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.”
“We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.”
“We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We want to know more than we want to survive. We want to know what death looks like before we run away from it. But we don't know that about ourselves until it's happening. Until we see it we don't know that we're the kind of people who run toward death; the kind of people who don't run away even when it's coming for us.”
Source: When I Ran Away
“We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“We want to know that our worth is not altogether lost in the vastness of our obscurity. And I find it of tremendous comfort to remember that Christmas was the greatest Being in all of existence being born into the greatest obscurity ever imagined in order to declare that with God, there is no such thing.”
“We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.”
“We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.
I want to know.
And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.”
Source: Falaha's Journey: A Spacegirl's Account in Three Movements
“We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.”
“We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.”
“We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.”
“We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.”
“We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda, a Hundred Years Since Chicago: A Commemorative Volume
“We want to like old things. We want to like things of great beauty. When we imagine ourselves as the kind of people who love beautiful, old things, we enjoy the fantasy.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.”
“We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.”
“We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.”
“We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“We want to live forever, and we're getting there.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.”
“We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.”
“We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.”
“We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“We want to maintain alignment with a way of thinking about business from a value adding perspective.”
“We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.”
Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge will break silence and speak out clearly for the civil rights that define our unity as a nation.”
“We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.”
“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".”