W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.”
“What we recognize and applaud as honesty and transparency in an individual is actually the humble demeanor of the apprentice, someone paying extreme attention, to themselves, to others, to life, to the next step, which they may survive or they may not; someone who does not have all the answers but who is attempting to learn what they can, about themselves and those with whom they share the journey, someone like everyone else, wondering what they and their society are about to turn into. We are neither what we think we are nor entirely what we are about to become, we are neither purely individual nor fully a creature of our community, but an act of becoming that can never be held in place by a false form of nomenclature.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“What we recognize as Life is actually a premise that enforces the belief of the separateness from God.”
Source: World of Archangels
“What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.”
“What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.”
“What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.”
Source: Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999
“What we regard as matter is just a special type of mental content. In our dreams, we make worlds that aren’t made of solid atoms, yet seem totally real to us. Why should the ‘real’ world be any different?”
Source: Polarity Atoms: The Science of Love
“What we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves, to say yes to something scary.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”
“What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'”
“What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.”
Source: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)
“What we repeatedly yield to eventually reshapes our direction.”
Source: Philandering and Hypersexuality:Impact on Destiny and Lasting Solution
“What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.”
“What we repress will persist until heal.”
“What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.”
“What we require is a balance between protest and stability. This is never easy to obtain but is worth attempting, because we know that if through indifference we lose our liberties we shall not regain them in this century.”
“What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.”
Source: The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
“What we resist persists.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“What we restore says more about us than what we destroy.”
“What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?”
“what we run from or
push away, the “you can't hurt me
if i hurt you firsts”…
not letting it come to us
because it's just too good to be true…
or when it does, we can't let it be here
because it's just too beautiful to stay…
or trying to grip it and control it
when all we really need to do to hold it
is let it dance in our fingertips
instead of suffocating it away.
i think that thing we do as a defense when we're
scared of losing something is often why we
end up losing things. and maybe letting
the beautiful things belong here…
is just in seeing that our fear is
what doesn't belong here.”
“What we said probably sounded pretty naïve even to the most open-minded of those present. Conceptual models, matrices, flow diagrams, decision trees - the bread-and-butter tool kit used by business schools and think-tanks to help them make sense of the real world in all its complexity- were unfamiliar and best disposed of by remarks of the 'politics isn't like that' variety. To say that there was no meeting of minds would be an understatement - Page 21”
Source: Just in time: Inside the Thatcher revolution
“What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.”
“What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin”
Source: 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
“What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.”
“What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.”
“What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.”
“What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.”
Source: In my own words
“What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!”
“What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.”
“What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.”
“What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
“What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.”
“What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
And that which we do with the dead,
Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
What more of a man can be said?”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith
“What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief”
“What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.”
“What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.”
“What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.”
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.”
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
Source: The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in
“What we see depends on our point of view. When gazing at the stars, lovers see romance, but scientists see thermal reactions.”
“What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mongers and death-dealers who have been hijacking their religion and using it as a murder weapon. The question is just begging to be asked: are they afraid? Or are they just not interested because they feel it somehow does not affect them.”
Source: Blachart
“What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.”
“What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.”
“What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.”
Source: Stake your claim