W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“We are still using the classical term particle for something wholly different. This leads to not only confusion within the scientific community but also hinders “quantum consciousness” from making inroads into culture and society.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.”
Source: The death of tragedy
“We are still waiting for our welcoming ceremonies.”
Source: Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else): A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home
“We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.”
“We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.”
Source: Contraries
“We are stone enemies when the bell rings”
“We are stood on the spot where a vast army of legionnaires were sent through a time portal with this very device,’ Jack said holding out his arm and displaying the XXL strapped safely to his wrist.”
Source: The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.”
“We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this inmense, chaotic universe.”
Source: The Order of Time
“We are stories that others remember us by.”
“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.”
Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
“We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.”
“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”
Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's
“We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.”
“We are strangers in this world, and the body is the tomb of the soul, and yet we must not seek to escape by self-murder; for we are the chattels of God who is our herdsman, and without his command we have no right to make our escape. In this life, there are three kinds of men, just as there are three sorts of people who come to the Olympic Games. The lowest class is made up of those who come to buy and sell, the next above them are those who compete. Best of all, however, are those who come simply to look on. The greatest purification of all is, therefore, disinterested science, and it is the man who devotes himself to that, the true philosopher, who has most effectually released himself from the 'wheel of birth.”
Source: Early Greek Philosophy
“We are stratified creatures, full of abysses, with souls of quicksilver, with minds whose colour and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel
“We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.”
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]”
“We are striving to engineer the internet of all things in hope to make us healthy, happy and powerful. Yet once the internet of all things is up and running, we might be reduced from engineers to chips then to data and eventually, we might dissolve within the data torrent like a clamp of earth within a gushing river. Dataism, thereby, threatens to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens has done to all other animals. In the course of history, humans have created a global network and evaluated everything according to its function within the network. For thousands of years this boosted human pride and prejudices.
Since humans fulfilled the most important function in the network, it was easy for us to take credit for the network’s achievements and to see ourselves as the apex of creation. The lives and experiences of all other animals were undervalued because they fulfilled far less important functions. And whenever an animal ceased to fulfil any function at all it went extinct. However, once humans loose their functional importance to the network, we’ll discover that we are not the apex of creation after all. The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and the Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple within the cosmic data flow.”
Source: Homo Deus
“We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth.
I will honor my mother and take care of my family.
Yes, I think. I am just a woman.”
Source: The Glass Arrow
“We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.”
“We are strong only because of our weaknesses and fears”
“We are strong where we were broken.”
“We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.”
“We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.”
“We are stronger than we think we are.
We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet”
Source: Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
“We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.”
“We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.”
Source: Sever
“We are stronger together than we are alone.”
“We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.”
“We are stronger together.' Dar looked into Kale's eyes...He turned to Lee Ark and nodded pointedly at the hole through which Kale stared. 'It seems to me that we have a problem in this togetherness thing.”
“We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.”
“We are structuring our energy, and our reality around us is being created in large part by our relationship with water. It is water that picks up, reflects, and amplifies our thoughts. Thus the admonition to guard your thoughts.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT.”
“We are struggling to change the values and priorities of men alongside us, as well as the way they conduct themselves - in short, to change the world. All the while, we are fighting to assert our own interpretations of what we are doing and our own definitions of what we are, against the man-made versions, which tend to ridicule, belittle or ignore our efforts and achievements.”
Source: Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”
“We are stuck in habits and attitudes that seem impossible to break. We are stuck thinking food is love. We are stuck with guilt about food because we are female; or stuck not liking vegetables because we are male. We are stuck feeding hungers that often exist more in our brain than our stomach. We are stuck in our happy childhood memories of unhealthy foods. But the biggest way we are stuck is in our belief that our eating habits are something we can do very little about. In fact, we can do plenty. The first step is seeing that eating is a skill that each of us learns and that we retain the capacity for learning it, no matter how old we are.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We are stuck in the maize that we created. Most people keep complaining about being stuck rather than finding the way out, and they call themselves unlucky!”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.”
“We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.”
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Another review of map skills, one week of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus in time for Columbus Day, the Pilgrims in time for Thanksgiving. Every year they say we're going to get right up to the present, but we always get stuck in the Industrial Revolution. We got to World War 1 in seventh grade - who knew there had been a war with the whole world? We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track.”
Source: Speak
“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
“We are subject to a society that bombards us with temptation to buy the latest gizmos and gadgets to appease our social circle. Stop living to impress others.”
“We are subject to two types of reincarnation cycles. Unless those Nanos catch us, Nature will take care of us. If you're thinking about hacking, there are only two reasons: You want to be born into a wealthy, powerful family/clan, or you want to be reborn among those you love but who have already physically departed from your life.”
Source: The Nano Story
“We are subsidizing healthy food instead of subsidizing food that is definitely not healthy for us.”