W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are in the indie age of “don’t love ideas of people,” but ideas of people are all we have when they’re old and gray and forgetful and smelly," said Miguel. "It isn’t fair to punish someone for loving an idea when everything around us is an idea, the only difference is people change ideas, and I, quite frankly, am excited to see what certain people could change to. I love their intervals and their points.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We are in the last chapter of our lives, make sure, the living you do, is the best, make up for the lost time”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“We are, in the main, 'word-blind' to Pre-Raphaelite and Decadent verse. This blindness results from a major change in habits of sensibility. Our contemporary sense of the poetic, our often unexamined presumptions about valid or spurious uses of figurative speech have developed from a conscious negation of fin de siécle ideals.”
Source: After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
“We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state.”
“We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.”
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”
“We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.”
“We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.”
Source: Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection
“We are in the midst of a great spiritual awakening.”
Source: Time To Awaken
“We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.”
“We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.”
“We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.”
“We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution.”
“We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.”
“We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!”
“We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.”
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
“We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“We are in the post-management, hard-tech era: critical infrastructure needed.”
“We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.”
“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”
“We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.”
“We are in the process of finding out how electromagnetically irradiated police officers interact with the public.”
“We are in the process of finding out how viruses interact with electromagnetically irradiated humans.”
“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment.”
“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.”
“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.”
“We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.”
“We are in the process of seeing where 5G cell phone irradiated university graduates takes the country.”
“We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.”
“We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?”
“We are in the same place, at the same time, occupying the same mind. I am in you, touching you, being you, quite literally.”
Source: One Summer in Savannah
“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.”
“We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.”
“We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.”
“We are in the times of the beginning of a new epoch for Christianity. True apostolic Christianity is being restored to the earth.”
“We are in the top five restaurants in New York. Daniel is about luxury. It's a luxury where when somebody has never come they maybe expect to be intimidated, but once they have the experience I think they feel this is a welcoming, fun and great experience to have. The menu, the price point, the level of service, and class we offer to people... I think it's incredible. Not every restaurant can be like that - it's a commitment, in terms of dedication to excellence.”
“We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.”
“We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy”
“We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.”
“We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.”
“We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
“We are in the world to complement each other.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.”
“We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.”