W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We're all separate and individual people.”
“We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.”
“We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.”
“We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.”
“We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.”
“We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.”
Source: Waiting For You
“We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.”
“We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.”
“We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
Source: How to Train Your Dragon: How To Train Your Dragon
“We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.”
“We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.”
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.”
Source: Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]
“We're all so damned fragile.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.”
“We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.”
“We're all special cases.”
“We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.”
“We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.”
“We're all stories, in the end.”
“We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”
“We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.”
“We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.”
Source: The Shipping News
“We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.”
“We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.”
“We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.”
“We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.”
“We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.”
“We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.”
“We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.”
“We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM - the eurozone's new rescue fund. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.”
“We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.”
“We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.”
“We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.”
“We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.”
“We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.”
“We're all the scriptures. We live the scriptures. The scriptures doesn't manifest unless it is amongst human beings and the scriptures are for us, written by us. The scriptures didn't write itself. We wrote the scriptures.”
“We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.”
“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.”
“We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.”
“We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.”
Source: Choke
“We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.”
“We're all travelers, all sojourners.”
“We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.”
“We're all travelling heavy with illusions.”
“We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.”
“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.”
Source: Ender's Game
“We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.”