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, and never need be, alone.”
“We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.”
“We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.”
“We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)”
“We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.”
Source: Wyvernhail: The Kiesha'ra: Volume Five
“We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.”
“We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.”
“We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“We are nothing but by the law.”
“We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
Source: Pensées
“We are nothing but shadows
Fading away
Trying to hold on to
This bittersweet life
That we call our own...”
“We are nothing but shattered mirrors reflecting the worst virtues that humans can have. We are nothing but liars and voids and vacant, hollow beings that do whatever they’re ordered to do.”
Source: Our Deadly Deceptions
“We are nothing but supporting characters in an endless novel, not essential, not consequential. just there for the sake of it.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”
“We are nothing but uttered words”
“We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.”
Source: Shadows of Tender Fury
“We are nothing in the grand scheme of things, and yet in that nothingness lies everything.”
Source: The Art of Finding Truth: One Man's Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy
“We are nothing more than a dot amongst the billions of organisms on the Hillis plot”
Source: The Rise of Shams
“We are nothing more than game pieces on a celestial board whose sheer scale we could not possibly fathom. All of it is inevitable—just like you and I. You can’t fight Fate.”
“I can fight you.”
He smiled. It was a courtier’s smile. An elegant cover to endless secrets and depravities. “I’m counting on it.”
Source: Star Crossed
“We are nothing more than pawns on this chessboard of life.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences”
Source: The First Codex
“We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.”
“We are nothing without our quick and simple blessings, without those willing to drag optimism by its neck to the gates of grief and ask to be let in, an entire choir of voices singing at their back.”
Source: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
“We are nothing without passion.”
Source: The History of Bees
“We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory happiness if you must, but please leave us our flaws for we do not wish to exist without them.”
Source: White Noise
“We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.”
Source: Tristessa (Annotated)
“We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.”
“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?”
“We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.”
“We are now accelerating towards probably the most important moment in the entire history of Earth, comparable in significance only to the emergence of life itself on this planet -- the Technological Singularity, Intelligence Supernova, the Omega Point of Homo sapiens, progressively morphing into one Global Mind. This 'cosmic event' would mark the end of human era, as we are to inexorably transcend our animal biology, and even more importantly, we are to transcend our limited dimensionality. History is, after all, 'a shockwave of eschatology' in the words of McKenna.”
Source: The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence
“We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.”
“We are now as I wished we could be then.”
Source: Paper Towns
“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God
“We are now at a critical mass as we plan the future with combined technology.
If we do not identify how separate technologies support or add problems we are just repeating the mistakes of the past.”
“We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.”
Source: Birth of the Chaordic Age
“We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.”
“We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.”
“We are now at a watershed moment in human history where philanthropists need not follow the precedents set by those who have come before them but can instead synthesise brand new ways to create positive human impact.”
Source: Rebuilding You: The Philanthropy Handbook
“We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.”
“We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.”
“We are now becoming more aware of our links to the universe and are reaching out to the universe for knowledge. We are evolving from earth creatures to star creatures. Our minds now explore the worlds beyond, and we sense a destiny beyond this planet.”
“We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that 'there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet”
“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.”
“We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.”
“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.”
“We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965