W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.”
Source: Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
“We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.”
Source: Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower
“We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.”
“We are most ourselves, the most human, when we unabashedly immerse ourselves in the world with love and hope, gratitude and kindness.”
Source: Mud and Dreams:
“We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.”
“We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.”
“We are most vulnerable during moments of transition. Yet change presents an opportunity to reflect on and release our past. Each time we open a new chapter, sadness will find us, wearing different faces, delivered in different forms. Being present with it and creating space for it allows for its eventual release. Change is hardest to embrace when the loss of our past is palpable, and the payoffs are not yet in sight.
I call it courageous living. Others call it a leap of faith...
Courageous, creative living is the ability to act, leap, or keep moving forward, even when confidence is nowhere to be found.”
Source: The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”
“We are motivated by radical love of country.
We fight for universal healthcare because of love.
We fight for a livable planet because of love.
We fight for equitable housing because of love.
(7/31/2020 on Twitter)”
“We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)”
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.”
Source: The Givenness of Things: Essays
“We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.”
“We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from
markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.”
“We are moving from a state of the highest possible symmetry, to the to a state of the most likely outcome. The highest possible symmetry is a perfect sphere of infinite dimensionality and the most likely outcome is the least amount of information.”
“We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.”
“We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.”
“We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.”
“We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.”
“We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.”
“We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.”
“We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.”
“We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.”
Source: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
“We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.”
Source: Digital Master
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.”
“We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.”
“We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.”
“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”
Source: The Advancement Of Learning, Volume 2
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.”
“We are much better than we know.”
“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
“We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.”
“We are much more likely to be drawn to a messy bookstore than a neat one because the mess signifies vitality. We are not drawn to a bookstore because of tasteful, Finnish shelves in gunmetal gray mesh, each one displaying three carefully chosen, color-coordinated covers. Clutter -- orderly clutter, if possible -- is what we expect. Like a city. It's not quite a city unless there's more than enough.”
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
“We are much more than a mouthpiece for a culture,
We are much more than a showpiece of our ancestry.
I am not saying that we gotta cut off our roots,
But we mustn't let roots become chains of slavery.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“We are much more than pretty... we are wonderfully made. We are much more than likable... we are deeply loved. We are much more than ok... we are the daughters of the King.”
Source: You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be
“We are much stronger and more powerful than we understand. We are fifteen thousand pounds of muscle and bone forged from rage and trauma.”
Source: Detransition, Baby
“We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.”
“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”
“We are multiple in One.
All vibrating energy.”
“We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.”
“We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.”
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.”
“We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds”
“We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty.”
“We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.”
“We are nature.
Our bodies carry its swimming waters.
We are made of the soil
and eat the plants that grow from it.
From dust to dust
we come and go.
Each time I bring
my hands to my heart
in prayer,
flowing my body with my breath,
it is devotional,
a dance with the earth
and of the earth.
I dance with every tree,
sway with the wind,
bloom with every flower
in my being.
My breath,
Mother Earth,
is yours.
—the whole planet is in me”
Source: Yoga Heartsongs
“We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.”
“We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.”
Source: Made from this earth: an anthology of writings