W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.”
Source: Voodoo shop
“What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.”
“What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.”
“What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.”
Source: The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992
“What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things”
“What we finally do, out of desperation ... is go on an impossible, or even forbidden, journey or pilgrimage, which from a rational point of view is futile: to find the one wise man, whomever or wherever he may be; and to find from him the secret of eternal life or the secret of adjusting to this life as best we can.”
Source: Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
“What we find connects us to the past. It may be an ugly, shameful past, but we have the responsibility of owning up to to it so we can know better and then do better.”
Source: The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle
“What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.”
“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.”
“What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
Source: Le Fanatisme Ou Mahomet Le Prophète: Tragédie
“What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.”
“What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.”
“What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.”
“What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.”
“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”
“What we focus on, what we believe, has a direct effect on the unfolding of actual events—small ones, yes, but large ones as well. Indeed, our sustained focus is the primary driver in bringing what are initially purely imagined scenarios (some on an expanded scale) to life.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“What we focus on with intention grows. Therefore, focus on what you want — not what you fear.”
Source: Unity House
“What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?”
Source: Blessings
“What we forget, if we ever knew, is that what we know now about status and wealth creation and sacrifice are predicated on who we are — that is, not poor.
If you change the conditions of your not-poor status, you change everything you know as a result of being a not-poor. You have no idea what you would do if you were poor until you are poor. And not intermittently poor or formerly not-poor, but born poor, expected to be poor, and treated by bureaucracies, gatekeepers, and well-meaning respectability authorities as inherently poor. Then, and only then, will you understand the relative value of a ridiculous status symbol to someone who intuits that they cannot afford to not have it.”
Source: Thick: And Other Essays
“What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.”
“What we forget is that, as omnivores, we are extremely gifted at changing the way we eat to accommodate different environments.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“What we forget is that we can have our feet on the ground and our heads in the stars at the same time. We can be whole people while enjoying the other wholeness of being in love. None of us wants to give up hope or joy or romanticism—and there is no need for us to!”
“What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.”
“What we found is that Valentino is actually a tremendous star - almost a movie star, really, because he plays himself all the time. The camera loves him.”
“What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.”
“What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam.”
“What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure.”
“What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion”
“What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”
“What we get from all religions especially from the Prophet's life, peace be upon him, is that there is no way to reach peace if we are not ready to sacrifice, not ready to strive, not courageous enough to face the powers here and the dictators who don't care about humanity or human life.”
“What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.”
“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”
“What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.”
“What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.”
“What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.”
Source: They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration
“What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.”
“What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.”
“What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit in which we might take it, the spirit in which we might spend it, is the leaven that might leaven the whole lump. Let us be patriotic; let us love the government under which we live.”
“What we give away is ours. What we keep at home is not ours. What we give away is of value. What we keep at home is of no value. What we give away we don't need to protect. What we keep at home we need to protect. What we give away causes no worry. What we keep at home causes worry. What we give away gives inexhaustible wealth. What we keep at home will be exhausted. What we keep at home leads to negativity. What we give away leads directly to enlightenment.”
“What we give our attention to, grows.”
Source: The Heart of a Leader
“What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.”
Source: Easy Essays
“What we give to the poor, we lend to God.”
“What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.”
Source: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
“What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.”
“What we glean from watching or actively participating in sporting contests is the sense of commitment needed to succeed and the diverse paths that lead to failure.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“What we go through can never dim where we go to! R.V. Mitchell”
“What we got here is a failure to communicate.”