W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.”
“We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.”
“We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.”
“We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.”
Source: THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803
“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”
“We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.”
Source: Christian Mission in the Modern World
“We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.”
“We are sentenced to die the day we are born.”
“We are separate from nature or life only in our minds.”
“We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.”
“We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.”
“We are servants of our opinions, and not the other way around, when we cannot set ourselves free to look back and scrutinize them.”
“We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.”
“We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.”
Source: Ubik
“We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.”
“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
“We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.”
Source: Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
“We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.”
Source: The Adding Machine
“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”
“We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.”
Source: Canopus in Argos: Archives
“We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“We are shadows and entities, but we never asked to be made black!
I’ll accept all your ignorance and misinformation, just don’t ever try to pull us back!
Poem - IN MOTION.
December 9, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“We are shadows trying to find the light by hiding from it.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.-
Henry Ward Beecher -
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.”
Source: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
“We are shaped by forces we do not choose.
But within them…
we still choose who we become.”
Source: Between Fear and Hope: the discipline of integration
“We are shaped by our pasts, not defined by them.”
Source: The Man Made of Smoke
“We are shaped by our thoughts.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
“We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.”
“We are shaped by the love we give and the sacrifices we make, even when they go unnoticed.”
Source: Syllabus of the Heart: A Teacher's Journey Through Love, Loss, and the Strength to Begin Again
“We are shaped by what sustains us, beyond just what we eat.”
“We are shaped by what we hold on, and we are fashioned by what we let go.”
“We are shaped by what we're saturated in, which is why incarnation must always be paired with devotion.”
“We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.”
Source: The Geography of Bliss
“We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.”
“We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.”
“We are sheep surrounded by green pastures, but we will not eat. We seem to have no appetite for the Word of God.”
Source: Thou Art With Me: Strength, Guidance and Encouragement from the 23rd Psalm
“We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.”
“We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?”
“We are shining stars to guide each other.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.”
“We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.”
“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”
Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson