W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith.”
Source: The Ninth Order
“We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.”
“We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.”
“We all really only want to lend our money to people we can trust to pay it back. It’s the same thing with banks and other institutional
lenders.”
Source: Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
“We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.”
Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know
“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.”
“We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.”
“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”
Source: City of Stairs
“We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those faces, I see that the seemingly repugnant behavior wasn’t so atrocious after all. Everything is forgiv- able. Everything we said and did and felt was magnified by the pres- ence of something we couldn’t control, and that fact definitely brought out the crazy. Each of us will carry a balance of regret and pride for the rest of our lives.”
Source: No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.”
“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”
“We all rely on the market's transparency and integrity.”
“We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.”
Source: The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.”
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.”
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.”
“We all remember
that moment in time.
After that nothing
was ever the same.
We've been clinging
one or the other yet
all it causes is pain.”
Source: Lost and Found: Shadows of Love
“We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.”
“We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.”
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.”
“We all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.”
Source: Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
“We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.”
“We all romanticize the people we adore.”
“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.”
Source: Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version
“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”
Source: The unfinished country: a book of American symbols
“We all sang the songs of peace”
“We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.”
“We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.”
“We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person”
Source: Forever ME
“We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]”
“We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue”
“We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.”
“We all say "sunrise" and "sunset" despite the fact that we all also know that the sun isn't rising or setting. Language and labels are fluid. So while we need to resist the impulse to put people in boxes, we shouldn’t negate the value of labels, especially where dominant labels too often seem to erase the identities and experiences of the non-dominant.”
“We all say things when we are trying to get elected.”
“We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of people on your journey. The real, secret obstacle that we have against finding authentic, genuine relationships with people is our subconscious fear of growth. If we stick around in the bin of broken toys playing the queen or the king, at least we get to feel some sense of accomplishment at being the most evolved person we know. To find our tribe means finding people we can learn from, people who are better at some things than we are, people who have something to teach. We say we want it, but how many of us fear being a beginner more than loneliness and much more than being in the wrong crowd? There is a strange comfort, a sense of safety, to suffering and loneliness. To be happy, to find our family, we must be willing to let that go.”
“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse. But I guess that would be asking too much. It must be an evolutionary stopgap - if we were all so specifically, vividly aware of what might go horribly wrong, we would none of us have children at all.”
Source: A Little Life
“We all say we want our kids to happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse.”
Source: A Little Life
“We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'”
“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“We all scribble poetry.”
“We all see a different reality and we make decisions based on what we see. Everyone is trying to protect their interests in the best way that they can. The world is commonly viewed as a place where someone must lose in order for someone else to win. It's a competition with winners and losers. You must know, in your own heart, that there is an overriding Love which loves everyone.”
Source: Waldmeer
“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”
“We all see the same moon in the darkness of the night
We are all human beings fighting our fight
That should be enough for us
to treat each other with kindness
Instead of with blindness”
Source: Hey Humanity
“We all see the same thing but interpret it differently.”
Source: Quantraz
“We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.”
“We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.”
“We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.”