W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We write to free ourselves and help others.”
“We write to give strength to our soul and to inspire spirit of other souls.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to go on living, after we have died.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“We write to know we are not alone”
“We write to make sense of it all.”
“We write to rekindle the inner spirit.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to share our thoughts and our lives.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”
“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”
“We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret, either for publication or for a journal no one will see, or we write poems to be privately printed for the eyes of friends alone - this is not our choice. The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.”
“We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.”
Source: Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
“We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.”
“We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.”
“We writers are resilient souls.”
“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.”
“We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.”
“We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.”
“We writers love our wanderings. In search of newer experiences and newer fragrances, we keep drifting from place to place!”
“We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!”
“We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.”
Source: Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast
“We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today”
Source: Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self-control
“We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet”
“We wrote a soul agreement amongst the stars,
To find eachother in human hearts.”
“We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the headline was "The New Catholic Evangelism Of Jim Gaffigan." And it was a bit terrifying.”
“We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.”
“We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategies
in order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology to
the forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. We
wanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and the
evolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.”
Source: Shift Ahead: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World
“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”
“We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.”
“WE WUZ PUSHED.”
Source: On Strike Against God
“We Yandar are winged. We don’t succumb to adversity; we fly with it.”
Source: Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
“We yearn for a full moon night every night!”
“We yearn for a stranger to poke around in our heart. Such an irrational thing it is. Flutter once and lunacy behold.”
“We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.”
“We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.”
Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.”
Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.”
Source: Hindutva; who is a Hindu?
“We(Yoo Joonghyuk & Kim Dokja) are companions separated by life and death.
- Kim Dokja”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
“We?"
"You and me, yes."
"The two of us hiking to Condor Peak? Alone?"
"I wasn't planning on inviting the bear along, but if you think we need a chaperone..”
Source: Starry Eyes
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.”
Source: Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.”
Source: The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
“We zijn er als mensheid gewoon dol op om onze pijlen te richten op hen die het minst op ons lijken of die we niet of nauwelijks begrijpen. Beschaving is wat die neiging moet beteugelen. Beschaving is je beter gedragen dan je bent.”
“We zijn in de greep van narcisme.”
“We zijn zeventien, achttien, negentien, halfgaar uit de mallen van onze respectievelijke gezinnen gerold en nu, zonder die behuizing, zonder die vaste vorm, lijkt het alsof we uitvloeien. We zoeken naar een leven dat bij ons gaat passen. Een karakter, een imago, een stijl, een doel misschien of anders in elk geval een typische eigenschap of opvallend taalgebruik. Iedereen kan niet wachten de eerste stappen te zetten en tegelijkertijd jaagt het ons allemaal grote angst aan.”