W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We all use the future to escape the present.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“We all use the same torch. What we light and how, that's what decides if we are modern. And the modern is not necessarily good just by virtue of it being modern.”
Source: Reflection: And Other Plays
“We all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren't looking that all changed....what the summer actually brought was independence from each other.”
“We all wait for that one phone call that never comes.”
“We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.”
Source: A House in the Sky: A Memoir
“We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.”
“We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?”
Source: Going Bovine
“We all walk in different shoes.”
“We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.”
“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.”
“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]”
“We all walk in the sky, but not all of us reach heaven.”
“We all walk in the sky, but only some walk with their heads in the clouds.”
“We all walk within the universe, but not all the people turn on the light to see where they walk.”
“We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”
Source: Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah
“We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.”
“We all want answers to the big questions.”
Source: The Secret History of Twin Peaks
“We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.”
“We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.”
“We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay because most of the time, okay is enough.”
Source: Every Day
“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”
“We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.”
Source: Transforming Grace
“We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.”
“We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.”
“We all want more and more time, but when you get it, what do you do with it?”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.”
“We all want our partners to reach in and heal the young wounded parts of us with their love. And they always, to some degree, fail us. Because they are human and therefore imperfect. Because, on the day you most need them, they have a toothache and can't be bothered. Because in that perfect moment when you throb with desire, they ate and drank too much and just want to go to sleep. The tough news here is that the only person who can with absolute consistency be there for our inner children is us. And that's okay. That's enough. Once we learn how to do it.”
Source: Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
“We all want our starter castles on the corner of Prospect and Refuge.”
Source: The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
“We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.”
“We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“We all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will find us.”
Source: Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.”
Source: An Invisible Thread
“We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.”
“We all want someone to accept us with all our flaws,
all our vulnerabilities.
But as soon as someone else shows their vulnerable side,
we try to exploit them.”
Source: The Uncharted Mind
“We all want survival, safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, health, happiness, and love. Yet we seem utterly unable to produce it for any but the tiniest minority of us - even after trying for thousands of years.”
“We all want sweetness, beauty, harmony, exhilaration, and happiness in our lives. Don't search for it, endlessly and fruitlessly, in other people and circumstances. Become it yourself. Become it with total commitment and in full force. Your life will flower with tremendous potential.”
Source: Touched by Love
“We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.”
“We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.”
“We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.”
“We all want things in life. Donald Trump is to be known as a winner, because he does win. He wants to be known as a genuine - and he is a legitimate winner.”
“We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
Source: The Collector
“We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.”
“We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.”
“We all want to be comfortable in our lives. Our families should be the first source of that comfort.”
“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”
Source: Think on these things
“We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.”
“We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.”
Source: Love and Friendship: A Novel
“We all want to be happy and feel valued. We want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success. When you generously provide these emotions for others, you activate the law of attraction to magnetize the same experiences for you.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact