W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.”
“We all know that feeling of wanting something so bad and then finally getting it. You feel this rush of dopamine, and then very soon after you crash and you need something else to give you that hit of dopamine. This is the vicious cycle that emerges from the empty promise of capitalism – that happiness comes from acquiring material possessions.
The Native Americans have one of the most beautiful concepts in the world. They have 10,000 different languages and all these tribes and none of them have a word for ownership or possession. They know that they are just temporary stewards of the earth; no one can truly own anything.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.”
“We all know that good boys are freaks in bed.”
Source: Must Eat Pussy: A Collection of Poetry and Prose
“We all know that great leaders can create great successes.”
“We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.”
“We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.”
“We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.
Let them become the photograph on the table.
Let them become the name on the trust accounts.
Let go of them in the water.
Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.”
“We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.”
“We all know that joy and sorrow are entirely matters of fate and have nothing whatsoever to do with planning.”
Source: Salt Fish Girl
“We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.”
“We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.”
“We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.”
“We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany
“We all know that nothing can grow
if we don't water it.
So,
sometimes
together,
we are going to have to
drink up.
Throw away all abandon and run through the sprinklers.
and purposely forget our umbrella in the car.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“We all know that person—the one who wakes up on the right side of the bed; the one who surely consumed a bowl of sunshine for breakfast; the one who asks how you’re doing and means it. How do they emanate that much light? How can we also appear more friendly and personable? How can we be that light for others?”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“We all know that sex is the most interesting topic in the world. We love to talk about sex. There's no juicier gossip than who is sleeping with whom. And we love to read about sex. Check the top 1000 books on Amazon. Most of them have a shirtless guy on the cover, because they're smutty "romance novels" (read: porn for women) about a girl being swept off her feet by one (or more) billionaire alphamales. There are literally tens of thousands of books out there about shirtless billionaire alpha-male vampires who can't wait to mate with you. Lucky you! And women eat that shit up! Men, not so much. We men prefer to watch actual porn. And there's a perfectly good explanation for that.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends: Honest Relationship Advice for Women
“We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.”
“We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.”
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN”
Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
“We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.”
“We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.”
“We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.”
“We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.”
“We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.”
“We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.”
“We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.”
“We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?”
“We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.”
“We all know that there is a reward for every labour as well as there is a reward for every game played and won. How committed you are in life determines your reward.”
Source: Wake Up: 100 Powerful Truths to Inspire and Motivate You for Success
“We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?”
“We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.”
“We all know that we have unique fingerprints, we need to understand that we have unique soul prints as well”
“We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.”
“We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs, and we think thoughts, or even do deeds, of which we would never have believed ourselves capable.”
Source: Psychic Self-Defense
“We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.”
“We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.”
“We all know the big elephant in the room. The big elephant in the room is African governments. Africa has been totally mismanaged and misruled, but nobody wants to talk about that because of political correctness.”
“We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!”
Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard
“We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.”
“We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not whether we need to find a more fulfilling bed.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.”
“We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass in High School. I don't want to be that guy. Racing gives us all the chance to be athletes again.”
“We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.”
“We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.”
“We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.”
“We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?”