W Quotes
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“We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.”
“We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.”
“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“We all just want to sit on our ass.”
“We all keep certain phrases handy in our minds - Hanging on hooks just inside the door where we can grab them like a raincoat, for easy access”
Source: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.”
“We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.”
“We all knew, deep down, that there was nothing to be done against the faeries. We'd all been told it, regardless of class or rank, from the moment we were born, the warnings sung to us while we rocked in cradles, the rhymes chanted in schoolyards. One of the High Fae could turn your bones to dust from a hundred yards away. Not that my sisters or I had ever seen it.
But we still tried to believe that something- anything- might work against them, if we ever were to encounter them. There were two stalls in the market catering to those fears, offering up charms and baubles and incantations and bits of iron. I couldn't afford them- and if they did indeed work, they would buy us only a few minutes to prepare ourselves. Running was futile; so was fighting.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week.”
“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it is more blessed to kill than to be killed.”
Source: A Place to Come To
“We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.”
“We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. Once the baby’s scalp protruded, we all hunkered down and braced ourselves.”
Source: Didn't Get Frazzled: humorous medical fiction
“We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead.”
Source: Beowulf
“We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.”
“We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.”
“We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.”
“We all know about blogs and how big they are.”
“We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.”
“We all know about species competition, but what about cooperation and companionship? Are interactions always competition, supporting the survival of the fittest view, or can they include cooperation, suggestive of yet another evolutionary advantage? Recent thoughts on evolution suggest that cooperation in the natural world may be just as important as competition to the evolutionary process.”
Source: Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
“We all know about the big world conflicts: Israel and Palestine, Zimbabwe, and so on. But there are smaller conflicts that aren't even on the world's radar screen; most of the world has no idea that Ethiopia invaded Somalia a year ago. It makes sense for the Elders to sit down with both sides and see whether leaders can come to an understanding.”
“We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.”
“We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.”
“We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."”
“We all know ashley, dont we? your best friend ASHLEY!! you know Ashley Called Me a PSYCHO.. DO U THINK IM A PSYCHO NOW ASHLEY... HUH?!”
“We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“We all know Damian's big on secrecy. The man makes the CIA look like a gabfest. He is Mr Need-To-Know.
As in, students never need to know.”
Source: Goddess Boot Camp
“We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.”
“We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.”
“We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.”
“We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.”
“We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!”
“We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.”
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes
“We all know hopelessness; we know Christ crucified when we see it--in the slums of India and Oakland; passed out on city sidewalks; in someone's early, painful death. We know from resurrection. If I use the word 'God,' I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who loves the occasional goat sacrifice. I mean 'God' as Jane Kenyon described God: 'I am food on the prisoner's plate . . . / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden . . . / the stone step, / the latch, and the working hinge.' I mean 'God' as the shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.”
Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott
“We all know how cats feel about traveling in a car. You never see a cat with his head out the window, fur flying in the breeze. A cat is never anyone's designated driver.”
Source: Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned
“We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the "Girlfriend in a Coma" is, like, really funny.”
“We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.”
“We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible.”
Source: The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.”
Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.”
“We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.”
“We all know how to be a child.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“We all know I won't be killed because of this stupid allegation of espionage, but because I decided to be who I always dreamed. And the price of a dream is always high.”
Source: The Spy
“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
“We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.”