W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or 'feelings'. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist's definition of a neurosis as 'refused pain'. In the same way we escape from mental pain. We refuse to believe what we do not like.”
Source: The Buddhist way of life
“We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.”
“We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.”
Source: Speeches by Errol Barrow
“We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.”
“We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed.”
“We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“We will not sacrifice our children at the altar of fear.”
“We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.”
“We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. No more inhumanity.”
“We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.”
“We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.”
“We will not suffer If we do not cause others to suffer.”
“We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.”
Source: CANDIDE The famous musical based on Voltaire's satire
“We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.”
“We will not wake up one morning with a complete sense of self having been granted all answers to the universe. But, it is certainly worth a try.”
“We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.”
Source: Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
“We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.”
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.”
“We will not worship what we cannot refuse.”
“We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.”
“We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.”
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.”
“We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?”
“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.”
Source: Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection
“We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it. Prayer releases the grip of Satan's power; prayerlessness increases it. That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.”
“We will only ascend as deeply as we are rooted in our path in this life.”
“We will only be truly evolved beings when we become altruistic beings.”
“We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.”
“We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“We will only grow as big as we dream that's why we must dream big.”
“We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.”
“We will only secure a prosperous, peaceful and liveable planet if we harness economic growth and development to social solidarity across and between generations.”
“We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free”
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
“We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.”
“We will own peace only after we have totally stopped finding fault with others. We have to feel the whole world as our very own. When we observe others' mistakes, we enter into their imperfections. This does not help us in the least. Strangely enough, the deeper we plunge, the clearer it becomes to us that the imperfections of others are our own imperfections, but in different bodies and minds.”
Source: The Jewels of Happiness: Practical Inspiration and Wisdom for Your Life's Journey
“We will pass away. I, Nezahualcoyotl, say, enjoy!
Do we really live on earth? Ohuaya, ohuaya.
Not forever on earth, only a brief time here!
Even jades fracture; even gold ruptures, even quetzal plumes tear:
Not forever on earth: only a brief time here! Ohuaya, ohuaya.”
“We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human”
“We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.”
“We will pay a million dollars to save a love one's life, but let a dollar tear us apart.”
Source: True Blue
“We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.”
“We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.”
Source: The Works of Wells
“We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.”
“We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.”
“We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.”
“We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.”
“We will preserve the capacity for independent thought through a society so heterogeneous that it will make our own look trite. We will intentionally craft new ethnicities, religions, and ways of existing. The genome will be our canvas and flesh our clay. Man is a young species. We still occupy the same bodies with which our ancestors hunted and picked berries. We are so trapped by the limitations of our biology that we lack the capacity to conceive our ultimate potential.”
Source: The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.”
Source: Emotions and Fieldwork