W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.”
Source: The Great Divorce
“We are not living in the '80s or '90s. We are living in the age of technology. If you want to be in business, you can't be intimidated by the Internet - you have got to dive in there head first. You can find out how to start your business. Everything you need to learn is right there.”
“We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.”
“We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.”
“We are not looking at a new state of matter but at a newly recognized relationship between consciousness and matter, which provides a more penetrating insight into the workings of prescience. The oracle shapes a projected inner universe to produce new external probabilities out of forces that are not understood. There is no need to understand these forces before using them to shape the physical universe. Ancient metal workers had no need to understand the molecular and submolecular complexities of their steel, bronze, copper, gold, and tin. They invented mystical powers to describe the unknown while they continued to operate their forges and wield their hammers.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“We are not looking at drug dealers we are looking at terrorists.”
“We are not lost, broken, or alone - we're given exactly what we need to be still.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“We are not lost mermaids with seaweed hair and coins for eyes, but human girls, alive and found.
We are sisters, and we did not drown.”
Source: Atlantia
“We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.”
“We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.”
“We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.”
“We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
“We are not made for a mold to which we all mindlessly adhere. Rather, we are made to be molded into something for which no mold exists.”
“We are not made for law, we are made for love.”
“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.”
“We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation, but still thinks puppies are really cute.”
Source: Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.”
“We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.”
“We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?”
“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“We are not meant to be happy all the time, at least in terms of constant bliss. Our brains cannot always be high on dopamine. If they were meant to be then narcotic drugs wouldn’t be so harmful.
A better and more realistic aspiration than constant happiness, is “reasonable peace”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“We are not meant to be in this country. We did not want to come. We were forced to flee or die. Americans perceive desperate brown masses swarming at their golden shores, wildly inventing claims of persecution for the opportunity to flourish in this prosperous land. The view from beneath the bridge is somewhat different: reluctant refugees with an aching love of their forsaken homeland, of a homeland that has forsaken them, refugees who desire nothing more than to be home again.”
“We are not meant to be ordinary but extraordinary by the divinity of our existence.”
“We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole”
“We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.”
“We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“We are not meant to come through our battles as merely survivors. We are meant to come off the battlefield as victors, and to lead others out to victory, as well.”
Source: Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft
“We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.”
“We are not meant to fit into molds designed by others. We are meant to thrive as the unique and unrepeatable beings we are.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”
Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel
“We are not meant to live in isolation. Not in nuclear families or bubbled existence. The richness of life is found in community, in cooperation, in becoming a part of a greater whole. Expand your bubble, drop your shield. Invite love in. Do not attempt to do it alone.”
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”
“We are not meant to rise endlessly, nor to hold on forever. There is wisdom in allowing ourselves to fall, when it is time to fall—whether into silence, into rest, into the arms of another, or into the unknown mystery that asks us to trust. Such falling need not be met with regret. It can be embraced with reverence, knowing that what falls into the earth does not vanish, but becomes the ground of something new.”
“We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.”
“We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.”
“We are not men, but promises of men.”
“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”
Source: The last temptation of Christ
“We are not mere witnesses to history but its living pulse!
What unfolds does not simply cross our path; it moves because of us, shaped by our very existence.”
“We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.”
Source: Thinking the Twentieth Century
“We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.”
“We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.”
“We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.”
“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the “intolerable compliment.” Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life—the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child—he will take endless trouble—and would doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We are not moved by reasons but by emotions”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.”