W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“We are duck farmers. We are The Overlooked. The most glamorous type of farmer is the cattle rancher, because they were made famous by cowboys. But people forget the humble duck farmer, and last time I checked, cows don’t lay eggs needed to bake superior cakes.”
Source: World Farming Championship
“We are dust and shadow.
[Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]”
“We are dust and shadows
~gates of the London Institute”
“We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.”
“We are dust and to dust we shall return.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are dust from the beginning and ashes in the end; a cycle of completion, no distinction, gray destination. #onphotography”
Source: Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within
“We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.”
Source: Stories for Girls: Lovingly Adapted for Twenty-First Century Children
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”
Source: The Inland Island
“We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.”
Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography
“We are each a composite of our prior actions and omissions. Over the course of a lifetime, we each exhibit strong personality tendencies. Absent intentional volition, our personality characteristics became more ingrained as we age.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.”
Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.”
“We are each a gift, exactly as we are in this moment, with no improvements!”
“We are each a microcosm; if each of our individual worlds is in balance, the whole planet is in balance.”
“We are each a world, actually, a universe of possibilities. To make effective change in the outer world, we have to make effective change in the inner world.”
Source: The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self
“We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’”
“We are each authors of a self-concocted depiction establishing our present day identity. Our persona is woven from a range of truths interweaved with inspired imagination and occasionally bounded by convenient falsehoods. Creating our personal story generates an identity myth that allows us to carry on.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these.”
“We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.”
“We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.”
“We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that can happen on a grand scale. But most of the time it happens in simple acts of kindness of one person to another. Those are the events that really matter.”
Source: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
“We are each children in some respect. You and I are the product of a corrupt society and the desperation to find good art in a world that gratifies businessmen. They are children of society, feeding into the endless circle of consumerism and greed while their leaders plot their deaths.”
“We are each gifted in a unique way. But success in finding great applications for our gifts hinges on the power of our courage to steer clear of the trap of evaluating our significance by how we rank in comparison to others.”
“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”
“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.”
“We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.”
“We are each individual, but the far greater thing is what we are together, and if that isn't protected and cherished, we are headed to a bad place.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“We are each like a grain of sand, thinking we are not the shore."
— Alyssa Skyes, author of Two Seconds of Eternity”
“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”
“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.”
Source: Arm of the Sphinx
“We are each of us angels with only one wing,' said the Italian artist Luciano de Crescenzo, “and we can only fly embracing each other.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
“We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.”
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
Source: Cosmos
“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.”
Source: Rabbit at Rest
“We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.”
“We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.”
“We are each one being with access to multiple dimensions guiding us toward our full human potential. The soul is vast and endless. The ego is actively on guard, yet also necessary to befriend. The body is a rich source of information along the path towards self-awareness, and the psyche works creatively towards permeability across ordinary and extraordinary states of consciousness. The spiritual realm is available, loving, and supportive, should we choose to open ourselves to receive it. Life is a continuum of all things seen and unseen, dancing and interacting as one reality, revealing itself to us as we reveal ourselves to it.”
Source: Guided: Journey into the Unknown to Awaken the Soul and Live in Truth
“We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example.”
“We are each other's hope... If there is no enemy within, the enemy without can do us no harm. And the enemy within is indifference. It is apathy. It is convictions without courage and ideals without action. For we know that where there is unity, there is strength. We know, as the African proverb says, that sticks in a bundle can't be broken.”
Source: United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other's reference point at our turning points.”
Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties
“We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.”