W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.”
“We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.”
“We are successful if, having been in the world, we have created more than we have destroyed.”
Source: The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
“We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.”
“We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.”
“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”
Source: The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance
“We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.”
Source: A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea
“We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.”
“We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.”
“We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.”
Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story
“We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on”
Source: The Tempest
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“We are such stuff that dreams are made of.”
“We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.”
“We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.”
“We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.”
“We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.”
“We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We are suffering from too much sarcasm.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.”
Source: It is Time
“We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.”
“We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.”
“We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.”
“We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.”
“We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.”
Source: Centered Living: The Way of Centering Prayer
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
Source: Narcissus and Goldmund
“We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.”
“We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.”
“We are supposed to be explorers of infinity, not prisoners of primitivity.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.”
“We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.”
Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.”
“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
“We are supposed to consume alcohol and enjoy it, but we're not supposed to become alcoholics. Imagine if this were the same with cocaine. Imagine we grew up watching our parents snort lines at dinner, celebrations, sporting events, brunches, and funerals. We'd sometimes (or often) see our parents coked out of our minds the way we sometimes (or often) see them drunk. We'd witness them coming down after a cocaine binge the way we see them recovering from a hangover. Kiosks at Disneyland would see it so our parents could make it through a day of fun, our mom's book club would be one big blow-fest and instead of "mommy juice" it would be called "mommy powder" There'd be coke-tasting parties in Napa and cocaine cellars in fancy people's homes, and everyone we know (including our pastors, nurses, teachers, coaches, bosses) would snort it. The message we'd pick up as kids could be Cocaine is great, and one day you'll get to try it, too! Just don't become addicted to it or take it too far. Try it; use it responsibly. Don't become a cocaine-oholic though. Now, I'm sure you're thinking. That's insane, everyone knows cocaine is far more addicting than alcohol and far more dangerous. Except, it's not...The point is not that alcohol is worse than cocaine. The point is that we have a really clear understanding that cocaine is toxic and addictive. We know there's no safe amount of it, no such thing as "moderate" cocaine use; we know it can hook us and rob us of everything we care about...We know we are better off not tangling with it at all.”
Source: Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.”
“We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.”
“We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.”
“We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.”
“We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.”
“We are surprised not by someone’s death but by its cause or date.”
“We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didnt take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.”
“We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!”
“We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.”
“We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.”
“We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.”