W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.”
“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
“What wasn't disclosed is not equal to a lie,
Privacy is not the substance of secrecy.”
“What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.”
Source: Storm Seed
“What wave wants to reach the shore? Because when it reaches the shore, it will die!”
“What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.”
“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”
“What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.”
“What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author
“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.”
“What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare.”
Source: The Wisdom of Father Brown
“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.”
“What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.”
“What we all have to avoid is the notion that we can buy our way out of our problems. Instead, the goal is to reduce our costs by extreme frugality. This is psychologically difficult because if there is one great certain confidence in American society it is this: you can buy your way out of almost anything. Other than a few things that will land you in jail even if you are rich, we tend to look for solutions that involve buying things. Having trouble with your marriage? Take a vacation. Pay a counsellor. Don't want to eat pesticides? Buy organic food! Indebted? Buy a book about how to get out. Worried about Peak Oil? Look at all the things there are to buy. Got a crosscut saw and a year's supply of dry milk yet? Don't want to give up driving and flying? We'll sell you some nice carbon offsets.”
Source: Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
“What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.”
“What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.”
“What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.”
“What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.”
“What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.”
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.”
Source: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
“What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.”
“What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.”
“What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?”
“What we always want to say [in X-men] is, "It's OK to be yourself, and actually it's a gift to be yourself. Whatever it is that you have, that may be your gift." I think that's what we always want to say, and spread it out, so have tolerance for other people who are different also.”
“What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.”
“What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.”
“What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.”
“What we appreciate fills our heart with joy. And when what the heart most wants is delayed, experiencing joy hinges on appreciating that we sometimes have to patiently travel through darkness to reach light.”
“What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.”
“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”
Source: Self-help
“What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.”
Source: Forever panting
“What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.”
“What we are certain of is the uncertainty of the future. I can’t assure you that tomorrow will be good when yesterday was bad.”
“What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.”
“What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.”
Source: Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to entertain ourselves.”
“What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian 'il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship between economy and politics, no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although—or, rather, because—these two levels are inextricably intertwined.”
Source: The Parallax View
“What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.”
“What we are doing at Mayflower-Plymouth is facilitating the efficient utilization of capital.”
“What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.”
“What we are doing in this campaign [2016], it just blows my mind every day because I see it clearly, we're taking on not only Wall Street and economic establishment, we're taking on the political establishment.”