W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”
“We all laughed and laughed
Because, yes, my mother was
Exactly the kind of mortal
Who challenged the Gods.
She was the reservation Medea.
She was the indigenous Antigone.
But just imagine how it felt to be
Her fragile child. I never stopped
Being afraid of her. I never left
That dark porch. I am still
Sleeping with those dogs.”
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.”
“We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.”
Source: The road ahead
“We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”
“We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.”
“We all learn from each other when we read and discuss literature, and our readings change based on those discussions. I know mine do, in all sorts of ways. But that doesn't mean I abandon my own viewpoint, and neither should you.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.”
“We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.”
“We all learn in different ways and there is no better way to learn than by teaching what little you know.”
“We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.”
“We all learn new things from places and people we never imagined we would and that my friends are how you grow in life until the day you die”
“We all learn our strengths and weaknesses throughout life; don't allow your weaknesses to be your greatest strength by default.”
“We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.”
“We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.”
Source: Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God
“We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.”
“We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following.”
“We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.”
Source: The Lonely Girl
“We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.”
“We all left exhausted, and I went home and baked. It's how I coped with stress. Something about shoving my hands in a good dough, baking off a fruit loaf with a delicate crumb, or producing a perfectly crunchy batch of chocolate cranberry biscotti simply brought me comfort. I opened the pocket doors and invited the fresh, salty air and the sound of crashing waves inside while I tested a new recipe for chocolate peanut butter muffins, made a loaf of Irish soda bread loaded with dried fruit, nuts, and orange zest, along with two dozen pecan sandies, and finished off with cranberry pistachio biscotti.”
Source: Southern Sass and a Battered Bride
“We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”
“We all lie, we all keep secrets.”
Source: Pathline
“We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.”
“We all like motorcycles to some degree.”
Source: Bob Dylan: Inspirations
“We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.”
“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.”
“We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.”
“We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good.”
“We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.”
“We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it
“We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”
“We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.”
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.”
“We all like to think that we’ll handle difficult times with clarity and perfection, but we’re all human. If someone has already disclosed to you and you’re realizing that you didn’t respond the way you would now that you know more about sexual assault, it’s not too late to tell them that you’re ready to be a strong support for them.
Educating yourself, apologizing sincerely, and working to support them moving forward will go a long way.”
Source: We Are the Evidence: A Handbook for Finding Your Way After Sexual Assault
“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”
Source: Ghostgirl
“We all like to think we're strong, until we are faced with our own loss.”
Source: Warlord
“We all line up except for this guy in a wheelchair, Devyn. He smiles at me when I line up, introduces himself. He has a movie star smile, just white teeth and charisma, big eyes, dark skin. He’d be perfect looking if he didn’t have such a large nose, but the truth is it looks good on him, natural and powerful. He winks at Issie, who blushes.
“You can do it, Is,” he says.
She rolls her eyes, twists her lip, and says, “As long as I don’t pass out.”
“If you pass out, I’ll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line,” he says, and it somehow isn’t sleazy because you can tell by his eyes how much he cares about Issie. I instantly like him.
She blushes worse. Her face looks like she’s already sprinted a mile.”
Source: Need
“We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.”
“We all live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing economy. The businesses that are able to adapt, pivot and restructure as needed are the businesses that are most positioned to thrive through the changes.”
“We all live best in our imaginations.”
“We all live but a hundred years.
When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days.”
“We all live downstream”
“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.”
Source: Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels
“We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns. For some, however, this distance between oneself and one’s self is never revealed; for others it is occasionally enlightened, to their horror or grief, by a flash without limits; but for still others this is the painful daily reality of life.”
“We all live in a corrupted world , lies are truth and truth is mental health.”
“We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.”
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play