W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”
“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
“We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.”
“we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.”
“We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.”
“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”
Source: White Cat
“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”
Source: White Cat
“We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.”
“We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.”
“We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...”
“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
“We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?”
“We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.”
“We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.”
“We aren't afraid of flying. We're afraid of not taking off.”
“We aren't as solid as we once thought. We're embodied but we're also networks, expanding out into empty space, living on inside machines and in other people's heads, memories and data streams as well as flesh. We're being watched and we do not have control. We long for contact and it makes us afraid. But as long as we're still capable of feeling and expressing vulnerability, intimacy stands a chance.”
“We aren’t asking for any more rights than anyone else in this country. We’re not trying to take anything or anyone’s rights away. We’re not looking for a handout unless it is a handout in friendship.”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“We aren’t born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge about what is good, what is right and who I really am.
Humanism thus sees life as a gradual process of inner change, leading from ignorance to enlightenment by means of experiences. The highest aim of humanist life is to fully develop your knowledge through a large variety of intellectual, emotional and physical experiences. In the early nineteenth century, Wilhelm von Humboldt – one of the chief architects of the modern education system – said that the aim of existence is ‘a distillation of the widest possible experience of life into wisdom’. He also wrote that ‘there is only one summit in life – to have taken the measure in feeling of everything human’. This could well be the humanist motto.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“we aren't even real
and neither are the drugs
so before this world ends
lets go have some fun”
Source: Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
“We aren't friends.”
Source: Passenger
“We aren't here, because we're a group of heroes about to save the world. We're here because we're the ones who know the truth if you know the truth it's your job to protect it. You know? We're here because something inside of us knows it would be impossible to live in ignorance. And I"M here to fight for all the things I love.”
Source: Lost Boy
“We aren't human."
"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
Source: The Fifth Season
“We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.”
“We aren’t meant to do life alone; we’re meant to do it with others.”
“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”
Source: Troubled Blood
“We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are.
[Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]”
Source: Troubled Blood
“We aren't responsible for the sins of our parents. And neither must we bear their pain. This doesn't mean turning our backs on our forebears. We can send our love back to them, across the centuries. But on their behalf and ours, we can follow the bittersweet tradition, and transform their troubles into something better.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“We aren’t shown our fate so we can master it, Kol. Sometimes, perhaps, we’re shown the future so we can prepare for it. But other times, we are shown it so that we can marvel in it.”
Source: Seidman
“We aren't so called black people.
We are black people.
Be black and proud!”
“We aren't taught to mourn. We're told to forget.”
Source: The Geri Rogue
“We aren't the lucky ones. Not really. We're just the ones left behind to remember the ones we've lost.”
Source: River Of Sorrows
“We aren't the mistakes we made in the past. We're the choices we make going forward. And, when we can, we use the power we're given to help the people who matter to us.”
Source: Strange Bedfellows
“We aren't the weeds in the crack of life. We're the strong,amazing flowers that found a way to grow in the most challenging conditions ~”
Source: Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story
“We aren’t workin’ the ship for money, or because a government drafted us. We’re here because we want to be. That’s all you’ve got over us. We believe in the cause, and we want to be part of what you’re doing. The minute we lose that, we might as well take a real payin’ job.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.”
“We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.”
Source: The Diary of Anne Frank
“We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.”
“We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.”
Source: Day 21: The 100 Book Two
“We aren't born with the innate knowledge of how to "do" relationship. Even worse, we've been brainwashed by modern day society to look for and seek perfection, which leads to an ongoing state of frustration and dissatisfaction.”
“We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.”
“We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.”
“We aren't defined by our work. People think if you over-identify with your work, then that must mean you're giving over too much of yourself to it, that there's something wrong with that. We're trained to believe in things like work-life balance. So much work is tending towards service. It's very much about creating experiences rather than products, and it makes those boundaries between life and work very slippery.”
“We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.”
“We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.”
Source: The Trumpet of Conscience
“We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.”