W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”
“We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.”
“We all only have so much mental energy to spend, so why waste it worrying about the people who doubt you?...put that mental energy to better use, like achieving your goals and making your dreams a reality.”
Source: No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life
“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.”
“We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.”
“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”
Source: Engleby: A Novel
“We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
“We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.”
“We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.”
Source: Sincerely, Andy Rooney
“We all over it ourselves to stand for something. Principles give us a foundation — solid ground we can trust and build on as we continue to redefine what's possible in our own lives. Sure, some will be put off by your dedication and level of effort. Others will call you obsessed or think that you've gone crazy. When they do, smile and say, "I'm not crazy. I'm just not you.”
Source: Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
“We all owe death a life.”
“We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.”
Source: Letters of Eugénie de Guérin
“We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person--it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instant--so each person that keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up--and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“We all owe it ourselves to stand for something. Principles give us a foundation — solid ground we can trust and build on as we continue to redefine what's possible in our own lives. Sure, some will be put off by your dedication and level of effort. Others will call you obsessed or think that you've gone crazy. When they do, smile and say, "I'm not crazy. I'm just not you.”
Source: Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
“We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.”
“We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us”
“We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.”
“We all pay a price for unethical organizational behaviour.”
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”
“We all pay for our choices.”
“We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of "how do we find our authentic selves?" And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?”
“We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE”
“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”
Source: Golden Fool
“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“We all play a part in life
and whether you are in the spotlight
or side stage
read from your on script
[and mind who has written the stage directions]”
Source: You've Already Arrived
“We all play a role in this democracy. We need to remember the power of every vote. I continue, too, to keep myself connected to a force that’s larger and more potent than any one election, or leader, or news story—and that’s optimism. For me, this is a form of faith, an antidote to fear.”
Source: Becoming
“We all play and dance to the tune that's in our minds and ears. And that's what makes life enjoyable for many of us.”
“We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.”
Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“We all played bad before we played good.”
“We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.”
Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
“We all possess certain talents and gifts that are unique to only us. You already have everything that you need to start living an extraordinary life. It's up to you to turn on the switch and let your light shine.”
“We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves.”
“We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.”
Source: Your Invisible Power: Order of Visualization and How to Attract to Yourself the Things You Desire (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“We all possess the need to dream.”
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”
Source: The Dream Lover: Short Stories
“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I’m well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?”
“We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.”
“We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.”
“We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side
But what if we're the villains on the other?”
“We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.”
“We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?”
Source: Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded
“We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.”
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“We all program our gadgets—computers, mobiles, but we don’t Program our Mind in such a way that we can REJOICE and BE HAPPY.-RVM”
“We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.”
“We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.”
“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.”
Source: The Truth About Style
“We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.”
“We all rail against class-distinctions, but very few people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier