W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living. It is always waiting to happen. Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.”
“We are never fucking brave enough.”
“We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.”
“We are never going to get anywhere unless we have an open dialogue that allows people to speak. If we just go in with anger towards those who hold a different opinion, we won't ever get anywhere. Take Brexit - the notion that everyone who voted leave is racist is bullshit and I really hate that. Some of the most vulnerable people in our society have been targeted and they have been brainwashed and lied to. The last thing we should be doing is shouting at them, blaming them and calling them names.”
“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.”
“We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.”
“We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.”
“We are never like angels till our passion dies.”
“We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.”
Source: Nerd Do Well
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing”
“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
Source: Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]
“We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.”
Source: THE STILL HOUR
“We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.”
“We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.”
Source: The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits
“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.”
“We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”
Source: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations
“We are never prepared for what we expect.”
Source: Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan
“We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“We are never promised relief from the presence of dangerous desires, but we are promised power to fight victoriously (1 Corinthians 10:13).”
Source: Born Again This Way
“We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.”
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
Source: The Poetics of Space
“We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.”
“We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.”
“We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.”
“We are never satisfied with what we have done. We know that our best is never adequate. If I had to be satisfied with what I have written I’d still be on my first novel. But I wrote what was for me the best book I could write at that moment in time.”
Source: Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life
“We are never separate from each other, from nature or from the Creator. The idea of separation is a dream.”
Source: BE INSPIRED: 365 Inspiring Thoughts
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
“We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.”
“We are never so generous as when giving advice.”
“We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.”
“We are never so lost that our angels cannot find us.”
“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”
“We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”
“We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.”
Source: Three-Martini Lunch
“We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck
“We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care.”
Source: The Course of Love
“We are never too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is the true Celestial City.”
“We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”
“We are never truly alone, even when it feels that way. It is horrible that we should need to feel that way, but even when we feel all our friends and loved ones have turned their backs on us, God is still holding us in His arms.
Shenita Etwaroo”
“We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll.”
Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu