W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We would lose ourselves in wondering who the other was, without hands, feet, face, tongue, our shadows touching but never quite mingling.”
Source: Human Acts
“We would love it if you would join us for lunch to discuss amputations! We love amputations. And firefighters at MetroGen. Anyone else coming?
Cassie inviting firefighters to join the bachelorette party for lunch”
Source: Roulette
“We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.”
“We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.”
“We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.”
“We would meet in Bars,
Bukowski and me,
And we would drink our whiskies neat,
Because that's what writers and poets did!”
“We would miss some of the best lessons of life, if suffering did not come to us. Suffering is a great teacher.”
“We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.”
“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”
Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
“We would need less gun control if we had better birth control.”
“We would never be together in this life again.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“We would never become friends with most if not all of the people with whom we have been friends for many years, if we had met them only a few weeks ago.”
“We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.”
“We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?”
“We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never invite me over to his house for dinner or a barbecue. We'd never be lovers. But there was a very good chance that one of us would be the last person the other saw before we died. It wasn't friendship the way most people understood it, but it was friendship. There were several people I'd trust with my life, but there is no one else I'd trust with my death. Jean-Claude and even Richard would try to hold me alive out of love or something that passed for it. Even my family and other friends would fight to keep me alive. If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.”
Source: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
“We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise. They say, you've got to face fear to get over it. And all they do is desensitize themselves to the point that they get themselves into situations where they have no idea what's going on, and the end of them comes rather abruptly... And then everyone calls them brave.”
“We would never really know the light unless we had been through the dark”
“We would never say to a man, "Be eccentric"; but if he cannot help being so, we would not have him be otherwise. The Leaning Tower of Pisa owes much of its fame to its leaning, and although it certainly is not a safe model for architects, we would by no means advise its demolition. Ten to one any builder who tried to erect another would create a huge ruin, and therefore it would not be a safe precedent; but there it is, and who wishes it was other than it is? Serve the Lord, brother, with your very best, and seek to do even better, and whatever your peculiarities, the grace of God will be glorified in you.”
Source: Eccentric Preachers: Spiritual Lessons and Insights from God’s Peculiar People [Updated and Annotated]
“We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed away from marijuana or not dealt dope to your friends when you were 18 you wouldn't be serving a life sentence in prison right now. You wouldn't be locked out of jobs, unable to even get work at McDonalds. No, instead we'd say, "What's wrong with us as a nation that we would condemn so many of our young men to a life of poverty, exclusion, and scorn simply because they made a few mistakes in their youth?".”
“We would no longer have anybody to rail against, nobody whom we could make responsible, nobody to instruct, improve, and punish! On the contrary we would have to begin, in all things, with ourselves; we would have to demand of ourselves, and of no one else, all the things which we habitually demand of others.”
Source: Dreams
“We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around”
“We would not - from here - counsel anyone to be guided by influences from without. ... If these come as in inspirational writings from within, and not as guidance from others - that is different ... the inspirational may develop the soul of the individual, while the automatic may rarely reach beyond the force that is guiding or directing.”
“We would not be able to impact future generations if family was not one of our top priorities.”
Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.”
“We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.”
“We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.”
“We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.”
“We would not be who we are today if it had not been for the lives that we have lived.”
“We would not deem life too short if we always remembered that we do not have to watch TV.”
“We would not deem some children cute if their parents were not rich or famous.”
“We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.”
Source: The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection
“We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it could be helped. Finn was killed by a male cat, and in exchange for that information, we also agreed to try to remove the female cats from your encampment before the true melee begins.” Melee?! Were these ninja birds? Green Berets with feathers?”
Source: Shift
“We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.”
Source: Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions
“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”
“We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.”
Source: On Love
“We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.”
Source: Elective Affinities
“We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man's life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?”
“We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”
Source: Folk-Lore and Fable
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This would unnerve me as I looked around these rooms and saw only white people. Clearly these white people were employed - we were in their workplace, after all. There were no people of color here, yet white people were making enraged claims that people of color were taking their jobs. This outrage was not based in any racial reality, yet obviously the emotion was real. I began to wonder how we managed to maintain that reality - how could we not see how white the workplace and its leadership was, at the very moment that we were complaining about not being able to get jobs because people of color would be hired over "us"? How were we, as white people, able to enjoy so much racial privilege and dominance in the workplace, yet believe so deeply that racism had changed direction to now victimize us?”
“We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.”
“We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.”
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.”
Source: The God of Animals
“We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.”
“We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”
“We would rarely waste time if it were earned.”
“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”
“We would rather be anywhere, as long as we are somewhere. We would rather be anyone, as long as we are someone.”
“We would rather be feared than respected.”