W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.”
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“We are Kush.
We are Meroë.
But they won’t teach you this in school.
They won’t name the ancient rule,
They won’t tell you how far we reached.
Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”
Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.”
“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”
“We are larger than the sum of our parts, and we possess the potential for greatness of a magnitude inconceivable to our conventional ways of thinking.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.”
“We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.”
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map of the extreme wealth of poverty. These speaking maps of a new topography will be in fact the first realization of 'human geography.' On them we will replace oil-deposits with the contours of layers of untapped pedestrian consciousness.”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing.”
“We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.”
“We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.”
“We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.”
“We are learning that through striving for justice, tears and laughter, seem more dynamic and shared as each step is taken with communal courage together. Record a legacy, they truly lived, not once stepped back on the path that beckoned. I am proud of my partner, of my family, of our friends. We have learned to value the quiet patience of gentle support both, unspoken and felt, heard and embraced. And if we seem cryptic in message at times, we wish to lift to the world the cause as artists, using the language of our nature and craft, to address the twisted currents of current laws and corruption, where ears are dulled from light by agendas, that the beauty of Art may be expressed in the reclaiming of itself, from the wreckage of the court system mired with soiled attorney and tainted judge. Colors to where there is grey, to lift the hues cast in cast iron graves, stamped Summary Judgement, with no judgement applied. So together we formulate, and forge what is possible, while tear stains cheek, falling upon lighted smile, in thought of our loved ones, that keeps our current path clear.”
Source: The Frowny Face Cow
“We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.”
“We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.”
“We are learning to support girls as they 'lean in' educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple.
It's almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct, they don't. Not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could've hoped.”
Source: Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
“We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.”
“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.”
Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American
“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.”
“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.”
“We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.”
“We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”
“We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.”
“We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“We are led to believe that we are in a democracy with a free press. When the evidence shows that we have neither. We're in a very serious situation.”
“We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.”
“we are left
together on this side of unknowing, stack like throwing bricks
all the finite seasons we have
& will spend without them.”
“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”
Source: Winter Journal
“We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.”
“We are left wondering why we are having good days, why we are surviving. It is curious that survivor's guilt could befall a cancer patient.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.”
“We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.”
“We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.”
“We are less indispensable than we think, even to those we love.”
Source: And Now Tomorrow
“We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.”
Source: TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)
“We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.”
“We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“We are less when we don't include everyone.”
“We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.”
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.”
Source: Look at the Harlequins!
“We are liberal in criticising but miserly in praising others. We spend our appreciation even more miserly than we spend our wealth. The result is that we also don’t get any appreciation from others.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.”
Source: Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
“We are light, sound, color, and form living a physical reality. Add the element of love and you have everything.”
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism?
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when we experience our connection to infinity that we’re able to dream powerfully.”
Source: Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being
“We are like a flower that has twelve petals. Each petal represents a relationship type that we need to grow and feel whole. Thus, just like a petal contributing to the wellness of a flower, all relationships contribute to our wellbeing. Healthy relationships are important.”