W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.”
“We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.”
“We are so invested in the fairy tale that disrespect feels like nothing more than a plot twist.”
“We are so involved in the universal purposes of God that immediately we obey God, others are affected”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“We are so isolated here in Haworth, with no one of our own age to befriend, and the men and women of Verdopolis are real, in a way. It wouldn't seem strange to me if... Someone... Might even fall in love with one of them.”
Source: Worlds of Ink and Shadow
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it.”
Source: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”
“We are so lucky to be surrounded by such open minded, well traveled individuals. Everyone has a different story and journey that we can learn from. We get to express ourselves in art and it can be crazy, but that’s the beauty of it. A mixture of different people and personalities coming together to make one image. Our jobs aren’t easy but there is nothing I’d rather do.”
“We are so lucky to have our children, even for a little while, but we take them for granted. We make the stupid assumption that as we are here, they will be, too, though that’s never been part of the contract.”
“We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.”
Source: Freud Verbatim
“We are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story.”
“We are so many different people in one lifetime.”
Source: The Lantern
“We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.”
“We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“We are so much lovelier when we fall.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.”
“We are so much more than our social media profiles, and it’s important to always remember that, even when it doesn’t feel like it.”
Source: InstaGrateful: Finding Your Bliss in a Social Media World
“We are so much more undiscovered than we are discovered.”
“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.”
“We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.”
Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.”
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
“We are so obsessed with rationality, that we even try to rationalize our irrational behaviours.”
Source: How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making
“We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software helps us believe we can... But we must move beyond the 'how' to reconsider the 'what' and the 'why'.”
“We are so obsessed with the quick clean end, the end that takes no longer than the length of a Hollywood film, that we have invented this word 'closure' for it-hoping that the truth of of this heroic compound will follow shortly after the naming of it. If the word exists, the concept must, mustn't it? But I will tell you differently. All that exists at the end is the sheer animal act of forgetting, and the act of forgiving ourselves for forgetting. It is a physical thing born of years of harrowing repetition and replay: the road so often travelled that the scenery is no longer visible, the paragraph so often read that the sense is no longer apparent.
- Sanjay de Silva”
Source: The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel
“We are so often kept apart, we disabled people, and kept from knowing each other's names. We are told not to hang out with the other kid with cerebral palsy, told to deny or downplay our disabilities or Deafness or ND [neurodivergence]. We often grow up not learning disabled history, Deaf literature, or that those are even a thing.”
Source: The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
“We are so often steered by our leaders towards the irrelevant so as to overlook our main concerns.”
Source: The Second Harvest
“We are so old, we have become young again.”
Source: A Little Life
“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
Source: Apocalypse
“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.”
“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.”
“We are so preoccupied with our own point of view that most of the time or we are searching for reasons to convert others to it. We feel that we are right as a rule and anything that contradicts is wrong.”
“We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.”
“We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.”
“We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.”
“We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?”
“We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.”
Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
“We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.”
“We are so scared to fail that we fail to try, we are so fearful of being seen that we hide our heart behind a fake smile, we are so anxious of change that we close the door to it…and yet all these thoughts and emotions can be used as tools to reinforce our strength and individual impact upon the world.
We move toward an enlightened way of being when we guide ourselves from a place of lack toward a place of fullness, and from a place of comfort to a place of growth.”
Source: Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth
“we are so scornful when we are young!”
“We are so small, and so frail, so gloriously and terrifyingly temporary.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet