W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.”
“We all seek peace,” the abbot said. “The trick is finding the path that leads to it.”
Source: Dangerously Divine
“We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.”
“We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.”
“We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“We all seem to know the dilemma of speaking within authorized boundaries, and yet the urge to orientalize the Oriental and to africanize the African continues to lurk behind many Westerners' wellintended attempts to promote better understanding of cultural difference.”
Source: Elsewhere, Within Here
“We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.”
“We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.”
“We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.”
“We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference.”
“We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.”
“We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.”
Source: Love
“We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.”
“We all share the challenge to enter the abyss, tame our demons, discover our power, and return with the light.”
Source: The Codex Bellum III: The Observer Effect
“We all share the dream of endless love. Endless love is impossible in a world filled with heartache, injustice, and despair. A person awakens with a jolt when they discover that they mistook the dream of love for reality. A romantic person accepts that reality is harsh and unfair, yet they continue to believe in the dream world of endless love.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We all share the same sky. We share our sky with our close ones, and our emotional state affects them first.”
Source: Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start
“We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.”
Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement
“We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.”
“We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?" Sorry, bro...Maybe I should've done an hour and 34 minutes.”
“We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.”
“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
“We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite.”
Source: The Inimitable Jeeves
“We all should ask each other, why are you obsessed with my race? I wonder what the other’s person answer will be.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”
“We all should fear God: because if so far God so wished, then what's next?”
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
“We all should practice to tell the truth and keep our promises, rather than trying to calculate possible pleasures, pains, and outcomes of our sayings in certain circumstances. Because we know that in general telling the truth and keeping promises will result in more happiness than lying and breaking promises.”
“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“We all should unite towards protecting #Human life. Not jew, not Muslim, not Christian. It's the Humanity in danger.”
“We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.”
“We all signed up for a one-way ticket when we joined GhostWalkers. It's just my turn.”
Source: Toxic Game
“We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.”
“We all sit in silence, soaking up the sun, as the plants do beside us, their little leaves opened up wide in thankfulness for the day. It is a beautiful day; there are beautiful moments in all of this.”
Source: Nothing but My Body
“We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.”
“We all slip somewhere near in space, but almost never cross paths.
It is a beautiful, well-groomed woman standing at the counter and selling jewellery to you. It is a girl running a flower stall. It is your neighbour who greets you daily in the lift. It is a woman who works with you in an office. It is your French teacher. It is an Instagram girl who moved to live by the sea. It is the girl who sat next to you in the underground. It is a woman who just walked past you on the street. It is a relative with whom you haven't been speaking for ten years. These infertile women are among us. This woman is me.”
Source: Not Pregnant
“We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.”
Source: A Really Awesome Mess
“We all smiled, but not that much, and frowned but rarely cried. Nobody could succeed here, but most people around me seemed to be okay with that . It meant they wouldn't fail either.
I didn't want to be like them. And at the same time, I was beginning to forget how to be different, how to be my own self. It was the feeling of being swallowed up, and I hated it.”
Source: A Night Divided
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.”
“We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.”
“We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.”
Source: The Warsaw Anagrams
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.”
“We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?”
Source: The Two Hotel Francforts
“We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.”
“We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.”
“We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too”
Source: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.”
“We all start not knowing what to do.”
“We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It’s a set-up of awesome potential.”
“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.”
Source: Boy's Life
“We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel