W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.”
“Were all born to hunt, but few choose the right prey - and even fewer notice their last shot.”
“Were all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? Ive just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.”
“Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.”
“Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.”
“Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.”
“Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.”
“Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away.”
“Were all important in god's eyes.”
“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.”
Source: Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell
“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”
Source: Lake Success
“Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?”
“Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one.”
“Were all people who tried to help doomed to live outside society because others didn't understand them?”
Source: Raven Quest
“Were all superfluities and the desire of outward greatness laid aside and the right use of things universally attended to, such a number of people might be employed in things useful that moderate labor with the blessing of heaven would answer all good purposes relating to people and their animals, and a sufficient number have leisure to attend on proper affairs of civil society.”
Source: A Plea for the Poor
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”
“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.”
“Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.”
“Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.”
Source: The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)
“Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.”
“Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.”
“Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get the answer: Exactly as he did in the majority. Republicans would be wise to understand what he's up to.”
“Were are we going? She asked, trying to figure out if they were flying forward or backward or sideways.
"Somewhere. Nowhere. Everywhere. It's all the same here. Always now but never then. Always then but never now.”
Source: Lodestar
“Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.”
“Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”
Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
“Were born to be players, not pawns.”
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.”
Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.”
“Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.”
“Were everything around us smooth and easy, we would remain supine, lethargic, indifferent. It is the whip of pain, of suffering, of disappointment, that drives us onward and brings out the forces of our internal life which otherwise would remain undeveloped.”
Source: Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899
“Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.”
“Were Gabriel and I going to fall in love? Be together forever? Live our lives happily as soul mates? Who the hell knew something like that? I
sure didn’t. I can’t see the future.
All I knew was that I would love finding out.”
Source: Perception
“Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world.”
“Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.”
Source: The Attribute to God
“Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.”
“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.”
“Were half to half the world by the ears and he
Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make
Only my wars with him: he is a lion
That I am proud to hunt.”
Source: Coriolanus
“Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?”
“Were he to put his hand on me, I would be revealed as nothing more than a newspaper, erect. A screen on which is projected the image of a boy. How could he love me? There's nothing to me except a place where the light resists moving forward. Okay, I say, instead. I will.”
“Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy”
“Were here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.”
“Were I
as quiet as thunder,
how I'd wail and whine!
One groan of mine
would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
And if
I'd end up by roaring
with all of its power of lungs and more -
the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
and from the sky's roof
leap in a fever.”
Source: Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе
“Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.”
Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas
“Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.”
Source: Selections from Epictetus
“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”
“Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.”
“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.
[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2