W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are the yearning creatures of this planet.”
Source: From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
“We are the young and reckless hearts,
destined to fly, and fall, and fly again.
The world doesn’t treat the wild souls well,
because maybe it doesn’t quite understand.
But in the end it remembers the super novas
that burned so bright we blinded them all.”
Source: Les Belles Lettres
“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“We are these people,
wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour.”
Source: Trilogy
“We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“We are thieves of the moment, taking every instance in appreciation of its true value.”
“We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.”
Source: Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions
“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray.”
Source: Selected poems
“We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.”
“We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand.”
“We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.”
“We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.”
Source: The William James Reader
“We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.”
“We are this close-knit group, navigating the crowded hallways as if we are one person. Teen-Jism-Ek-Jaan types. Trios always work, right?”
Source: Filmi Kismet
“We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.”
“We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.”
“We are threatened not just by memory loss, but by the routing of the synapses by the filterable viruses of memory. The strange disappearance of names, faces and places seems like a programmed erasure, like the imperceptible advance of a virus which, after infecting the artificial memories of computers, is now attacking natural memories. Might there not be a conspiracy of software?”
Source: Fragments
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.”
“We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.”
“We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.”
“We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.”
Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'”
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
Source: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.”
“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
Source: King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V
“We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.”
“We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”
“We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.”
“We are tired of pain
no words can quantify
our breath is running away
life feels meaningless”
“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.”
“We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.”
“We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.”
“We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.”
“We are to a large extent an imitative society.”
“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”
“We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things to a single unity. But this urge of the natural reason tends to petrify the heart. There is no single essence to which all existing things belong, no single essence which makes all things basically one. The only true unity of created things is the unity created by love. The heart embraces all things in their great variety and the heart loves them all.”
Source: God's Son and God's World
“We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.”
Source: We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
“We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.”
Source: What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
“We are to be productive, but the ideal way for that is to do it at a steady, calm pace. This is a mysterious sort of way. It is keeping busy in an almost romantic way. It is determined, but tender. It is cheerful and pleasant, and produces lovely things in the heart and life.”
“We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.”
“We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.”
“We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.”
Source: The Foundation of Biblical authority
“We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.”
“We are to choose the thoughts and the impulses and the desires of Christ, over the thoughts and the impulses and the desires of that physical baby that has now become a physical adult.”
Source: Corrective Judgment: The Program of God for Us
“We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us.
So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“We are to declare the words of God into the heavens and the earth, mankind, nations, government, congregations, and people everywhere to set in place foundations for stable government and society.”