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 seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.”
“We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.”
Source: The Compound Effect
“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“We are all selfish, scared and stupid.”
“We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.”
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.”
“We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.”
“We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.”
“We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.”
“We are ALL sexually abused by virtue of the fact that we live in a sex-negative society.”
Source: Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance
“We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.”
“We are all shaped by the choices we make, even the ones we regret”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“We are all shaped by the content we absorb. Like a radio tuned into the station of life. When you select the best content, you absorb greatness”
“We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.”
“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”
“We are all shards in the smash up.”
Source: Twist
“We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.”
Source: Me of Little Faith
“We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.”
“We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.”
“We are all sinners by birth, but in Christ Jesus, we are made perfect and righteous the day we are baptized and born of God. Through faith, we forsake sin and walk in righteousness. In Christ, we have a new identity, and His righteousness becomes ours. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, for we are set free from the power of sin and death. If we deliberately sin, it reveals that we are not walking in the Spirit. In Christ, we are new creations, no longer defined by our past sins but by His righteousness.”
“We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness”
“We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.”
“We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart”
“We are all skyscrapers, continually adding rooms and floors to who we are. Once one floor is done, the next begins and the result is a constant work in progress. The best business leaders treat their companies like projects never to be completed, only improved and refined, so why shouldn’t we also treat ourselves as such?”
Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making
“We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?”
“We are all slaves, wire-pulled marionettes: You, Ernest, I. There is no freedom on the face of the earth nor above. The tiger that tears a lamb is not free, I am not free, you are not free. All that happens must happen; no word that is said is said in vain, in vain is raised no hand.”
“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”
Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.”
“We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.”
Source: Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw
“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”
Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.”
“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.”
“We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.”
“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”
“We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.”
“We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.”
“we are all so much more than the worst thing we have ever done”
Source: Just Mercy
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
“We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.”
“We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.”
“We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.”
“We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark
“We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.”
Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“We are all social human beings, so making music is a way to contribute to society, to feel needed, to feel necessary. We need this. My driving force is the fun of doing something creative, being a valuable member of society, and getting feedback.”
“We are all someone else’s memory—softened, blurred, but still there. You don’t need to be remembered loudly to have mattered deeply.”
“We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds that never last?”
Source: Rilla of the Lighthouse