W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are hopeless romantics
who still fall in love with
words.”
“We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.”
“we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.”
Source: Salt
“We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.
It's kind of religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.”
Source: Challenger Deep
“We are human, and, being human, we are imperfect creatures. Through the process of injury, self-examination, and amends, we grow. We all grow.”
“We are human and our nature is to air...”
“We are human because we can fantasize.”
Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.”
“We are human beings, not human doings.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“We are human beings with blood flowing through our veins”
“We are human beings with blood running through our veins”
“We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.”
“We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope”
“We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.”
“We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.”
“We are human beings, not ants.”
Source: The Middlesteins
“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”
“We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.”
Source: The Power Within
“We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.”
“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World
“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.”
“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.”
“We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.”
“We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it's all about how you respond to a situation. My whole life, I've been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind. No matter what wrong I've done, I know who sees the heart.”
“We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different.”
“We are human. Some days are harder than others. One day something will upset me more than it would have the day before.”
“We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.”
“We are humans, and humanity is our supreme nationality - or better yet - humanity is our only nationality.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“We are Humans, We make mistakes.”
“We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.”
“We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.”
“We are hungry for tenderness,
in a world where everything abounds
we are poor of this feeling
which is like a caress
for our heart
we need these small gestures
that make us feel good
Tenderness
is a disinterested and generous love,
that does not ask anything else
to be understood and appreciated.”
“We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.”
“We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?”
Source: The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”
“We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.”
“We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.”
“We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.”
“We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.”
“We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.”
“We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon’s image that fits man’s imagination, and this accounts for the dragon’s appearance in different places and periods.”
Source: The book of imaginary beings
“We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary”
Source: The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings
“We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say”
“We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.”
“We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.”