W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...”
“We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.”
Source: Archeofuturism
“We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.”
“We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe”
“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”
“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.”
“We are stardust
Billion-year old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
Source: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
“We are staring at each other, forgetting about the harsh reality and I can feel my heart reacting. He touches my cheek and the familiar electric current runs through me. His hands are warm, caressing my pale skin. His deep-blue eyes are filled with serenity and passion. I keep telling myself to breathe, but I am unable to exhale the air from my lungs. Then he leans forward and his lips touch mine, increasing the temperature in my body. He kisses me gently, trying to break his way through, testing to see if I let him in. His lips are sweet and warm. A few seconds later it is all over and he disappears once again, leaving me uncontrollably awake and trying to gather my wild thoughts.”
Source: The Whispers of the Sprite
“We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.”
“We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within.”
“We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.”
“We are starting to learn more about Osama bin Laden. For his birthday one year, somebody gave him a $4 Timex. We know that. He is married to the daughter of a guy named Mullah Muhammed Omar. I think her name is Tiffany Omar. Insiders say that the marriage is not working out. Apparently they are living in separate caves.”
“We are starting to see what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country. Not just during the campaign but during the [Donald Trump] administration, basically signs of what could be a continuing operation. And those two things together are worth paying attention to.”
“We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.”
Source: Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence
“We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.”
“We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”
“We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.”
“We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.”
“We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.”
“We are still a long way from understanding what it signifies that nothing has any existence, unless some small - and oh, so transitory - consciousness has become aware of it.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are.”
“We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.”
“We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.”
“We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.”
Source: Milestones: Memoirs, 1927-1977
“We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and recognizing the consequences of their being humiliated are by no means intellectual matters; otherwise, their importance would long since have been generally recognized.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.”
“We are still evolving. Right now, however, the most potent form of evolution is not biological evolution of the sort described by Darwin, but cultural evolution, in which we develop and pass new ideas and behaviors to our children, friends and others. Some of these novel behaviors, especially the foods we eat and the activities we do (or don't do), make us sick.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.”
“We are still here because we have a purpose—and never forget it!”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.”
“We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.”
Source: Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
“We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.”
“We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.”
“We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.”
“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”
“We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.”
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.”
“We are still relatively free in our purchasing decisions. However, the biggest infringement is caused by our monetary system and the taxes and other charges being forced upon us. Taking our money away via taxes, other charges and inflation highly limits our freedom because we are no longer able to enjoy the fruits of our labor. The stronger members of society, ¨the rich¨, have their ways of getting around the compulsory purchase of taxes. Inflation is even beneficial to them because they can use the non-backed currency to buy real assets which will make them even richer.”
Source: New World Order Exposed: Strategy, tactics and methods of the power elite
“We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.”
“We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.”
“We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.”
“We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.”
“We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.”
“We are still too far from the true definition of space and a true definition of fact. To prove that there is a curvature of space, we must undeniably prove and show that we know and understand what space is and that we know and understand what a fact is philosophically, linguistically, and physically. Consequently, we may say we have considered and know all this, but the “fact” remains the “fact.” It is not whether we say we understand all this and have considered all that but if we have genuinely and undeniably proved and understood what we declare.”
Source: ABSOLUTE