W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduct a post factum search for evidence that justifies it. We are motivated to fight our foes because we are emotional about them, but emotion is the territorial scent-mark of irrationality.”
“We are betrayed by what is false within”
“We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other business position that we espouse. This approach enables us to be more reasonable, more respectful, less impulsive and more constructive. Risk cannot be eliminated entirely but that is true in all of life.”
“We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.”
“We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.”
Source: Henrietta
“We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.”
“We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.”
“We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.”
“We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.”
“We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.”
“We are between rock and a heartache”
Source: The Patternmaker and the Tide
“We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.”
“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.”
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.”
Source: The Origin Of Humankind
“We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.”
“We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.”
“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”
“We are bleak mirrors
that show not only the killing of our enemies
but also keep witness of our souls diminishing;
and we are bullets that fire at the enemies
yet destroy ourselves within the fire -
we have nothing left but grief
inside our own hands
that are washed empty of remorse
by the blood of our own people and the innocent
(on either lines).”
“We are blessed and sustained by what is not said”
“We are blessed if we heed to the prophesy of the Holy Bible.”
“We are blessed in America to have such abundance. We can go to any local market to buy food, regardless of the weather conditions.”
“We are blessed to grow up in a country that is the world's leader. We are blessed to be some of the most well-educated Black persons anywhere to be found in the world. This education and talent can be used in a friendly relationship with Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Asia to develop the wealth and resources of these nations. The friendship of us with our kith and kin around the world would cause both sides to benefit exponentially, based upon how well we develop these relationships.”
“We are blessed; we have the breath of life!”
“We are blessed when our loved ones know what they have long before they lose us. It’s the same with people. If they are taken for granted long enough, they can be oppressed to the point that they never experience the joys of life. Life on earth becomes a disappointment for them and Heaven becomes their goal. On the other hand, if they are loved and encouraged and appreciated, they will find all kinds of reasons to keep on living! It is never too late to help someone to see that they are valuable and wanted upon the earth.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.”
Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.”
“We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.”
“We are blessed with His Abundance more than we can imagine”
“We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”
“We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.”
“We are blind to each other's humanity.”
“We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.”
“We are blind with seeing eyes
Believing we're what we are not.
He lifts the veils of untruths
and frees us from the rot.”
Source: Guru Sutra - The Guru Who Wont Keep Spiritual Secrets
“We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.”
“We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our humanity.”
Source: Just Mercy
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.”
“We are born alone, live alone, and die alone. We create the illusion of relationship, love, and friendship during the intermittent. A Maya who makes us feel like we're not alone.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”
“We are born. And begin to remember. An aunt throws
up out a car window. A cigarette burns my foot. A
dying relative screams from a back bedroom. These
are my first memories. The things my brain decided I
should never forget.”
Source: Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel
“We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.”
“We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.”
Source: La Tiers Du Cylindre
“We are born and we die, and in between some of us will get the chance to change the direction of society for the benefit of the next generation.”
“We are born and we die, and what defines us is what we do in between.”
“We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.”
“We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.”
“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
“We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, ''Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?''”