W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.”
Source: Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common-place-book
“We are born with gifts and talents, which we discover over time through new experiences. Talents invigorate our lives, incite our passions, allowing our authenticity to shine. To me, nothing is more tragic than someone never taking a chance, never stepping out of their box, only to leave this world with a myriad of unwrapped gifts.”
“We are born with magic inside of us”
“We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.”
“We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.”
“We are born with our eyes open. The world teaches us to close them.”
Source: Sidequest: In Realms Ungoogled
“We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.”
“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
Source: Emile
“We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.”
“We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.”
Source: The Last Great Dance on Earth: A Novel
“We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.”
“We are borrowing $40,000 per second.”
“We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.”
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.”
Source: The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work
“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
Source: Number9Dream: A Novel
“We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.”
“We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.”
Source: EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature
“We are both individuals and expressions of the universe. These are not mutually exclusive.”
Source: Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“We are both of us made of the things we have lost.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?”
Source: The Shape of Mercy
“We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.
He asked me: “Do you pray?”
“No.”
“Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?”
“No.”
“Do you not thank God for his bounty?”
“No.”
“Do you not depend on God's support?”
“No.”
And with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.”
“We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.”
Source: Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
“We are both wounded in our own way and, like a pair of tectonic plates shifting over time, our wounds will gradually grate against one another’s, causing damage at a glacial pace. Neither of us will notice until it’s too late.”
Source: Out of Love
“We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.”
“We are bound by an invisible thread that I can’t break; that I don’t want to break. If this is destiny, I want to surrender to its greater power and hope that everything will be all right.”
Source: The Prince and the Thief
“We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.”
“We are bound by nothing except belief.”
Source: The Science of the Mind
“We are bound by our limitations to believe.”
“We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”
“We are bound by the secrets we share.”
“We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.”
“We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.”
“We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.”
“We are bound to flounder in misery if we spend our time invested in activities that do not fill the void within our hearts.”
“We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.”
“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”
Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England
“we are bound to make mistakes. We are bound to meet mistakes. We have regretted certain decisions we took yesterday today and we may regret some decisions of today tomorrow but not until we regret the regrets, we shall always have the regrets”
“We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong”
“We are bound
to memories,
to a past,
even to those full
of all that is aghast,
and yet, we must
conjure up
enough strength
to live beside
our ghosts,
unafraid."
- Barbara Garay, "Beneath the Surface: A book of poems.”
Source: Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems
“We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.”
“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.”
“We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!”
Source: Lady Midnight