W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.”
“What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world”
“What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.”
“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
“What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.”
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.”
“What we live by we die by.”
Source: North of Boston
“What we live for if we can’t dream”
Source: Thoughts To Live
“What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.”
“What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.”
“What we long for, we shall possess.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.”
Source: Euripides
“What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.”
“What we look forward to, and the great promise of the gospel, is that whatever our inclinations are here, whatever our shortcomings are here, whatever the hindrances to our enjoying a fullness of joy here, we have the Lord's assurance for every one of us that those in due course will be removed. We just need to remain faithful.”
“What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.”
“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”
Source: Small Wonder
“What we lost sight of is that conducting war is easy, maintaining and organizing the peace is a more daunting task.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.”
Source: Life Promises for Eternity
“What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.”
“What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.”
“What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.”
“What we love is that Glenn Geller admits to being a superfan of Big Brother and obviously he seems to be a big fan of reality TV, which is fabulous. He's been really, really excited and has just been smiling through all of our meetings so it's always a lot of fun.”
“What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda”
Source: Wanda: Countess Von Szalras
“What we love teaches us how to love.”
“What we love that 'The Way Back' is not subsidized, it's alive and kicking. And if I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it, I've had a great run. But I'm more concerned with the younger people coming up that want to make this kind of film.”
“What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“What we love to do we find time to do.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.”
“What we love we may also despise.”
Source: Dans un mois, dans un an
“What we love we shall grow to resemble.”
“What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.”
“What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.”
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright
“What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.”
“What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.”
“What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.”
Source: The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)
“What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.”
“What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.”
“What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.”
“What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.”
Source: In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
“What we mean by 'reality' is the description of reality. I do not know whether there is a reality apart from or beyond that description. If there is, there is no way of knowing it.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.”
“What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.”
“What we mean, in the last resort, by 'an answer to prayer', is that from the beginning of time, before he set about the building of the worlds, God foreknew every prayer that human lips would breathe, and took it into account. That, and nothing less, is the staggering claim which we make every time we say the 'Our Father'.
If I could have collected all the symposiasts in a room, this is the issue I would have put to them, to 'try their spirits'. By all means (I would have said) let us leave dogma on one side, let us take no notice of all the secular disputes which divide the sympathies of Christian people, let us refrain as far as possible from prying into the mysterious secrets, too high for our ken. But- do you believe that God runs the world, and cares what happens in the world? For, if so, you will have to find something better than a pale, pantheist abstraction to satisfy your notion of God. And if not, you may spare your inkstands; nothing you can tell us about your religion will ever strengthen an infirm purpose or heal a broken heart.”
Source: Caliban in Grub Street 1930 [Leather Bound]
“What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.”
“What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.”
Source: THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy