We Shall Quotes

#1. From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: 'Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!' And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the touch of a sigh because we are not in that Provence where even the saddest stories are gay.

Ford Madox Ford

#2. When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.

Arthur Miller

#3. Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Anna C. Brackett

#5. For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

Florence Nightingale

#6. What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

#7. The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all ... If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#8. We can pray only in Jesus Christ, with whom we shall also be heard.

Eric Metaxas

#9. The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the

Andrew Murray

#11. If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

Brigham Young

#12. If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us?
We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we see you among all the women of the earth.

Ayn Rand

#13. Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#15. The battle has been moved inside America, and we shall continue until we win this battle, or die in the cause and meet our maker.

Osama Bin Laden

#16. The father touched Siddhartha's shoulder. 'You will go into the forest,' he said, 'and become a Samana. If you find bliss in the forest, come back and teach it to me. If you find disillusionment, come back, and we shall again offer sacrifices to the gods together. Now go..

Hermann Hesse

#17. It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Richard Baxter

#19. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

Heber J. Grant

#20. Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

King Hussein I

#22. We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

#23. We shall give up the things of childhood --
gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Norman Spinrad

#24. We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.

Hilary Mantel

#25. I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.

E. M. Forster

#26. Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough
Only because we do not know enough
When Science has discovered something more
We shall be happier than we were before.

Hilaire Belloc

#27. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.

Patrick Henry

#28. Suppose we think while we talk or write
I mean, as we normally do
we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#29. If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

Dalai Lama

#30. We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

Saint Francis De Sales

#31. Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

Catherine McAuley

#32. One of Solstad's regular "connecting" statements in his narrative is: "Vi skal komme tilbakke til . . . " - "We shall come to-back to . . .

John Freeman

#33. Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms.

Daphne Du Maurier

#34. The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see - we shall see.

Roald Amundsen

#35. We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person ...

Richard John Neuhaus

#36. Who we shall become we are already in our souls.

Christin Lore Weber

#37. We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.

Wally Hickel

#38. The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and
thermonuclear weapons.

Arthur C. Clarke

#39. The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#40. We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

Hugo Chavez

#41. We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

George Bernard Shaw

#42. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

William Butler Yeats

#43. By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Martin Luther

#44. The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

David Lloyd George

#45. I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Benjamin Franklin

#46. I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

Marietta Holley

#47. If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

D.L. Moody

#48. Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#49. I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence ... The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion.

Alexander Hamilton

#50. We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

Angelina Grimke

#51. To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

Alexander Hamilton

#52. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.' - Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#53. I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that path, that we shall one day grow slow and stooped.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#54. O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare

#55. It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

P.D. James

#56. I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

W.B.Yeats

#57. We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#58. I hope we shall ... crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.

Thomas Jefferson

#59. Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

Ben Harper

#60. We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

Collis Potter Huntington

#61. If we look through all the heroic fortunes of mankind, we shall find [the] same entanglement of something mean and trivial with whatever is noblest in joy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#62. The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

John Keble

#63. No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

William Shakespeare

#64. If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business ... We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

Thomas Merton

#65. We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Oliver Goldsmith

#66. All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

John Von Neumann

#67. It is an extraordinary world - full of love, grief, coincidence - and we shall never understand it. We should never try to. We should only be grateful for it. I reckon we should love, breathe, and say all will be well and believe it. And we should share our best stories, as often as we can.

Susan Fletcher

#68. If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69. If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#70. We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chinua Achebe

#71. Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!

Manasa Rao

#72. Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.

Seishiro Itagaki

#73. The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. The right word? desire!

Napoleon Hill

#74. Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Julian Of Norwich

#75. We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

#76. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God - we shall not know zeal;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#77. Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - / We shall get ourselves rather disliked.

Ezra Pound

#78. We shall be free, just as our fathers were.

Friedrich Schiller

#79. We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

William Howard Taft

#80. We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Joseph Stalin

#81. We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

John Adams

#82. I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

Woodrow Wilson

#83. It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Friedrich Schiller

#84. We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

John Desmond Bernal

#85. We cannot live to be together
Forever doomed to love and death,
The latter bringing us together
Claiming from life the final breath!
So we shall love in death forever,
Evicted as we are from life,
As long as living shall be never
Successful in the love-long strife!

Tatyana K. Varenko

#86. We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.

Giacomo Balla

#87. I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

R. J. Hollingdale

#88. Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#89. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Paul The Apostle

#90. If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

Charles Caleb Colton

#91. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Bartram

#92. As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how.

Irvin D. Yalom

#93. We are never very far from those we hate. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love.

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#94. A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty ... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

J.C. Ryle

#95. The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

Sri Aurobindo

#96. The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.

Max Von Stephanitz

#97. Gentlemen are so trying! We shall forget them and visit the milliner. A new bonnet will banish the blues as nothing else.

Anne Herries

#98. We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

William Faulkner

#99. The way in which these factors - displacement, condensation, and over-determination - interact in the process of dream-formation, and the question of which becomes dominant and which secondary, are things we shall set aside for later inquiries.

Sigmund Freud

#100. One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

Vance Havner