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 the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.”
“We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.”
“We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.”
“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”
Source: Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes
“We all know the saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. What we don’t know is that if we teach a man to teach another how to fish, we feed a whole tribe for lifetimes to come.”
“We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.”
“We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.”
“We all know the true beauty of people everywhere, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.”
“We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.”
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.”
“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”
Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.”
“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.”
“We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.”
“We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.”
Source: Numbers
“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.”
“We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.”
“We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.”
“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.”
Source: From Brokenness to Community
“We all know what birds of a feather do. And it may be safely surmised that if a bird of any particular feather has been for a long while unable to see other birds of its kind, it will flock with them all the more assiduously when they happen to alight in its vicinity.”
Source: The Virginian
“We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn. They make men's testicles shrivel up to the size of peas, they detest the family and think all children should be deported or drowned.”
“We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.”
“We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.”
Source: Inkheart
“We all know what happens to celebrities when their time is up - rehab and then a stint on VH1.”
“We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.”
“We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected.”
“We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.”
“We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.”
Source: Showdown on Nightingale Lane
“We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.”
“We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against terrorism.”
“We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.”
Source: The Phoenix Transformed
“We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.”
Source: Suite Scarlett
“We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.”
“We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I'm the best in the world.”
“We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?'
'Not on my land,' Joe said.
'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God.”
Source: Live by Night
“We all know whose side you're on," marshall says, picking him up and launching him toward the window. The explosive sound of glass shattering fills the room. The walls tremble from the sheer heft of his violent exit.
"What the hell?" Barron rushes in with a needle at the ready.
"I've removed your son from the premises per Skyla's wishes.”
Source: Toxic Part One
“We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']”
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”
Source: One Bird's Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home
“We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?”
“We all know you're beautiful, Scott.”
Source: Silence
“We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.”
“We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.”
“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases”
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
“We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.”
Source: Out of The Easy