W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we come across is only this - various tunings of thinking. Doubt and despair, on the one hand, blind obsession by untested principles, on the other, conflict with one another. Fear and anxiety are mixed with hope and confidence. Often and widely, it looks as though thinking were a kind of reasoning conception and calculation completely free of any kind of tuning. But even the coldness of calculation, even the prosaic sobriety of planning are traits of an attunement.”
Source: What Is Philosophy?
“What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”
“What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.”
“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”
Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.”
“What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.”
Source: Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
“What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.”
“What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].”
“What we consistently manifest outside of ourselves is simply a projection of what’s inside. All that we’ve been, all that we are and all that we will be is a result of the law of our being. Our being, not luck nor chance, is what creates everything. If we want to change the outside, we must first change the inside...individually and or collectively. Our being springs forth from the fount of our thoughts. Adjust our thinking and we will shape our being as well as the world around us.”
“What we could all see and hear if we just shut our mouths a little more, and stop trying to constantly hear our own voice.”
Source: Archer's Voice
“What we could easily tolerate when our consciousness was less developed becomes increasingly intolerable as we evolve.”
Source: Touched by Love
“What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”
“What we crave, and how often we give in to those cravings, leaves a trace. A molecular record.”
“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”
“What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.”
“What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.”
“What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.”
Source: The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
“What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.”
“What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.”
“What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all”
“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
Source: This Business of Living
“What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them”
Source: The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents
“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”
“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."”
“What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.”
Source: The Spirit Eater
“What we did do was got to Chinese school. Whether you lived in D.C., Ann Arbor, New York, or Orlando, if there were Chinese people, there were Chinese schools where you went every Sunday to take Chinese Language and cultural classes. Chinese people would drive hours from every direction to take their kids to school. All teachers were volunteers and the parents chipped in to keep it going. While the rest of America went to church, we learned how to read right to left.”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.”
“What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.”
“What we did in the last month, last year, even in childhood, shouldn't deny us the chance of reinvention”
“What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.”
“What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.”
“What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.”
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.”
“What we did. What we fought for. Our history. Who we are. They won't teach it in schools. They don't want us to have a history. They don't see us. They don't know we are another country, with invisible borders, that we are people. You have to make them see. You have to remember it. And to share it. Please. Time passes, and people forget. Don't let them.”
Source: Like a Love Story
“What we did with Avatar, if you really look at it, we took things that are out there in the world every day, we just made them bigger, shinier. ... But all our inspiration comes from the real world. So if you really look, you can see all those things around you, and I would just encourage people to get out and look for it.”
“What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne by families of immigrants who actually have incomes and can afford to pay.”
“What we did yesterday, Can be changed today to make tomorrow different.. PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
Precious Present Moments Light Our Path”
“What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.”
“What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships
“What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.”
“What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.”
“What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are rendered meaningful by shared scripts and narratives that permeate our society.”
Source: This Is What Inequality Looks Like
“What we do, and how we live, teaches people far better than our judgments and advice ever could.”
Source: InstaGrateful: Finding Your Bliss in a Social Media World
“What we do and say and show really matters.”
“What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.”
“What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.”
“what we do and what we want do are not the same things sometimes
sometimes what we do, doesn't really depend on us, sometimes its is just out of our
control and driven by the desire to impress the others”
“What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.”
“What we do as a society is seek simple answers.”
“What we do as an individual affects the whole world.”