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 small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.”
Source: Murder
“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky | and lost among these subway crowds, I try to catch your eye.”
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.”
“We are so smitten with this reading from the author's latest book, Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers, which is the first installment of what will eventually be a three-volume collection. Georgina created this beautiful book to celebrate the relationship she has with her own stepmother. It’s a must-have.”
“We Are So Sorry To Hear About The Loss Of Your Little One No One Can Know What You Are Going Through But We Are Thinking Of You At This Very Very Sad Time We Are Here Should You Need Help Or Support God Bless You And Your Little One And Let Him Take care Of Him Till You Meet Again”
“We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories”
“We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.”
Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
“We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.”
“We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real. I clung to the movies with desperate fervor.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.”
“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.”
“We are so used to doing that having an encounter with God surprises us.”
“We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat.”
“We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.”
“We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.”
“We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we feel shameful about.”
Source: Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred
“We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.”
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!”
“We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.”
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
“We are so very 'umble.”
“We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others.”
“We are so vocal about what we hate.”
“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".”
“We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.”
“We are social animals, and we don't usually find and eat food alone, so we associate it at an emotional level with people, events and circumstances. Eventually a food becomes embedded with meaning, allowing anthropologists to asks questions like: 'Do pies mean anything?”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.”
“We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.”
“We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.”
Source: One Man's Owl
“We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.”
“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.”
“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.”
“We are socialized to hide key parts of our identity to avoid being seen as too bossy, too much, too little, or too [insert misogynistic term that only applies to women]. Women learn to be more reserved, shy and quiet in order to be the picture-perfect face of femininity and to avoid abuse and misogyny.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.”
“We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security”
“We are sole hominin survivors, but not the inevitable masters. Luck, as much as biology, might have been key to sapiens’ place in the world. Our existence as a species is due to a series of devastating, largely random catastrophes, each of which overhauled the planet and its ecosystems, providing new opportunities: from the meteorite impact that killed the dinosaurs but unleashed mammals through to climate change in Africa some 2 million years ago and the emergence of the great savannahs.”
“We are solely to blame for our misery.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We are some people’s friends only when they are with us.”
“We are somehow led to believe that the justification of what we’re ‘sowing’ has the power to change the nature of what we’re sowing. Subsequently, we find ourselves shocked that the justifications didn’t change the nature of what we ‘reaped.”
“We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.”
“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”
“We are something, but we can't be everything. I-I do wish that we could be. Or I wish that we could at least try. If it's easier to be nothing, because we can't be everything, then I understand."
Sirius breathes for a moment, then says, "I don't think I can be nothing with you.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.”
“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
“We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.”
“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)”