W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.”
“We are all fading, no longer ourselves. We have become empty shells, molded by our parents, Ensins and Masters. We are mere tools in their hands. A blade has no desires; a vial of poison nurtures no dreams. Why should we be granted these things?”
Source: The Crimson Fire
“We are all failures - at least the best of us are.”
“We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.”
“We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“We are all familiar with bureaucratic libido, with the enjoyment that certain officials derive from this position of disavowed responsibility (‘it’s not me, I’m afraid, it’s the regulations’). The frustration of dealing with bureaucrats often arises because they themselves can make no decisions; rather, they are permitted only to refer to decisions that have always-already been made (by the big Other). Kafka was the greatest writer on bureaucracy because he saw that this structure of disavowal was inherent to bureaucracy.”
Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.”
“We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.”
“We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
“We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.”
“We are all fighting something.”
“We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.”
“We are all fit for better things than we ever do.”
“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
“We are all flames waiting to be fed”
Source: Seven Sins
“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.”
“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.”
“We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”
Source: Enchanted
“We are all fools in love.”
“We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.”
Source: Conqueror
“We are all foreigners on earth. The best we can do is to be friends.”
“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”
“We are all forever a work in progress. I mean, that is the truth. You are forever in your whole life a work in progress, and forever there is a 12-year-old that's driving in to work with you every day. And you are still on the school playground and you are still whatever it is in college or you are still wondering why someone didn't return your call or ask you out.”
“We are all fragments of the Source that have chosen to have an experience outside of Source and play different roles in a theatrical play of sorts. Some will play heroes and some will play villains; without all the characters, there wouldn’t be a play to enjoy. No play lasts forever, as that would cease to be entertaining and become boring. When the play is over, the curtain will fall. When the curtain rises, all of the players will be holding hands and congratulating each other on their well-played characters.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.”
“We are all freaks in the show of life.”
“We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won’t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can’t we accept what’s different in each other and move on?”
“We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.”
“We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets very close in preproduction and rehearsals. And then he allows his actors - I don't think scared of actors, but I think he's scared of getting in on the scenes he's watching. The space he's watching. So he just totally disconnects from you while you're shooting.”
“We are all from small towns. But we dream big!”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.”
“We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.”
“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.”
“We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.”
“We are all fundamentally racist.”
“We are all gathered to the same fold.”
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Source: Young Archimedes: and other stories
“We are all geniuses when we dream.”
“We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.”
“We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.”
“We are all gifted in a unique and valuable way, each has its own community and it’s own tribe. You need to know your community and your tribe and never stop searching for them because they are the source of your knowledge, your personal strength and your personal growth and remember eagles fly with eagles and chickens walk with chickens.”
“We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.”
“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”