W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
“We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later some use will be found for our studies. The mathematician, of course, prides himself on being totally useless, but usually turns out to be the most useful of the lot. He finds the solution but he is not interested in what the problem is: sooner or later, someone will find the problem to which his solution is the answer.”
“We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.”
“We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.”
Source: Perfect Ruin
“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.”
“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.”
Source: York State Rural Problems
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
Source: Aleph and other stories
“We accept, reject, and discern through symbols. These are as important to our understanding of life, our understanding of existence and what has value, whats worthwhile, as math and science ... it's all part of how we work through things, how we make decisions.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.”
“We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people.”
“We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.”
“We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.”
“We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.”
“We accept the fact that being a parent requires a fundamental level of trust in the community of people around your child. If every coach is assumed to be a podophile, then no parent would ever let their child leave the house. And no sane person would ever volunteer to be a coach. We default to truth even when that decision carries terrible risks because we have no choice. Society cannot function otherwise.”
Source: Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.”
“We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.”
“We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.”
“We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.”
Source: That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary
“We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.”
Source: The Supreme Court as legislator: the contribution of an independent judiciary to civilization : an address
“We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.”
“We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to ransom men from the spiritual and temporal death brought into the world by the fall of Adam. No one can state too plainly or emphasize too strongly this eternal truth that salvation is in Christ and that it comes because of his atoning sacrifice. Nor can we set forth too clearly the gospel truth that we also must do certain things to be saved.”
“We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.”
“We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.”
“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”
“We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.”
“We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
[Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]”
“We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for us grace and glory; that we are blessed with all spiritual blessings, in, through, and for him; that he is made unto us righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; that he hath procure for us, and that God for his sake bestoweth on us, every grace in this life that maketh us differ from others, and all that glory we hope for in that which is to come; he procured for us remission of all our sins, an actual reconciliation with God, faith, and obedience.”
Source: The Death of Christ
“We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.”
“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.”
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
“We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"”
“We ache with the yearning
that turns half into whole
and offer no excuses
for the beauty of our souls.”
Source: Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player
“We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.”
“We achieve emotional equanimity and self-control by discovering how to live in accord with our capabilities, character, and evolving ethical values.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.”
“We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.”
“We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.”
“We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.”
“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologyzing, but also without blaming them unfairly for our imperfections.”
Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
“We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.”
Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a, quote, "message," but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank God we did that, because if we hadn't done that, today ISIL would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country.”
“We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.”
“We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.”
“We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.”