W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“we zoeken schoonheid op alle plaatsen
waar we het nooit zullen vinden
vertel me liever
hoe ruw je huid voelt
hoe troebel je ogen
hoe leeg je hart
en dan vertel ik je wel
hoe mooi je bent”
“We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.”
Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution
“We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs”
“We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.”
“We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.”
“We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.”
“We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.”
“We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.”
“We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.”
“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.”
“We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.”
“We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.”
“We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense. But at a certain point, when the insurgency began and we were in real trouble, there would have been some awareness that we were going to jeopardize the oil.”
“We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'”
“We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.”
“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”
Source: The Hairy Ape
“We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.”
“We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.”
Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.”
“We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.”
“We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.”
“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”
Source: The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel
“We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
Source: The Heart of The Matter
“We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.”
“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
Source: Main Street: Easyread Comfort Edition
“We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.”
“We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.”
“We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.”
Source: The lightning thief
“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”
“We'd like to apologise to the fans, the chairman, the staff and everyone connected to Newcastle”
“We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.”
“We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.”
“We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.”
“We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.”
“We'd like to think our consumers are listening. But in reality, the milder weather the last few days probably has a lot to do with it.”
“We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.”
“We'd love it if we could all just come home and not worry about the rest of the world. But the problem is, they attacked us on 9/11. We were here; they attacked us.”
“We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.”
“We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.”
“We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)”
“We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?”