W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.”
“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.”
“We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.”
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.”
Source: Childhood's Future
“We attend a postmodern meeting, and everyone leaves happy because everyone at the meeting was able to express himself or herself, even if no decisions were made. We give equal awards to our kids so nobody feels left out. Our news media is more concerned with the question, “How did that make you feel?” than any other.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.”
“We attended St. Stephen’s Primary School in Barbados, and every afternoon at twelve O’clock, my sisters, my cousins and I would hurry down Black Rock Main Road, to a family friend’s home for lunch. He didn't have a refrigerator, so he kept his water in a clay monkey, in the corner of his small shed roof. Excerpt from 'OVER IN AWAY”
“We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.”
Source: Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography
“We attract all the right things and right people into our life
When we accept and give permission to ourselves to be completely who we are, wherever we are.”
Source: Your Light Is The Key
“We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.”
“we attract what is happening in our lives”
“We attract what we are prepared to receive.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.”
“We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.”
“We autogynephilic transsexuals strive to become womanly in our bodies, but
we can also strive to become womanly in our personalities. The feminine personas
we create in the process of sex reassignment function as integral elements of the
extended works of performance art that are our lives. We create our feminine personas by trying to express and embody the feminine virtues, whatever we think these
are. For me, they include gentleness, nurturance, empathy, agreeableness, cooperation, friendliness, and grace. These qualities do not describe how I am naturally, but
they describe the way I want to be and try to be; as such, they de fi ne a spiritual path
that I attempt to follow. To try to express and embody these feminine virtues in our
everyday lives makes us better people—especially if we have spent most of our
lives expressing the kind of nerdy masculinity that values things over people,
emphasizes competition over cooperation, and sometimes alienates us from our
emotions and from other people. The transsexual journey is, in this case, less about
finding our “true selves” than our best selves. Autogynephilia is a paraphilic sexual
orientation, but it is possible to build a satisfying, passionate, spiritually fulfilling
life around it—a life very much worth living.”
Source: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies
“We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.”
Source: Mutant Message Down Under
“We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.”
Source: The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
“We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble”
“We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.”
“We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.”
“We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.”
Source: The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World
“We await their creative interpretations of works by others and we love how they freely adapt and alter the music we like and enjoy. The wonderful magical alchemy they co-create is enough to spur the imagination of the audience. There is no need for other instruments or vocals. The music alone suffices. Listening to them, we can close our eyes and be taken away to a faraway place, we can envision a story or embellish a memory. We can connect to spirit and source and what we connect to in our deepest being is akin to religious experience. They dedicate themselves to each performance fearlessly, courageously, passionately, and generously.”
Source: CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture
“We awaken by asking the right questions.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
Source: As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things
“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”
“We badly needed ornaments for our room, and now we have them ready to our hand. I will have our drawings framed and covered with good glass, so that no one will touch them, and thus seeing them where we put them, each of us has a motive for taking care of his own. I arrange them in order round the room, each drawing repeated some twenty or thirty times, thus showing the author’s progress in each specimen, from the time when the house is merely a rude square, till its front view, its side view, its proportions, its light and shade are all exactly portrayed. These graduations will certainly furnish us with pictures, a source of interest to ourselves and of curiosity to others, which will spur us on to further emulation. The first and roughest drawings I put in very smart gilt frames to show them off; but as the copy becomes more accurate and the drawing really good, I only give it a very plain dark frame; it needs no other ornament than itself, and it would be a pity if the frame distracted the attention which the picture itself deserves. Thus we each aspire to a plain frame, and when we desire to pour scorn on each other’s drawings, we condemn them to a gilded frame. Some day perhaps “the gilt frame” will become a proverb among us, and we shall be surprised to find how many people show what they are really made of by demanding a gilt frame.”
“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.”
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.”
Source: An Exciting Future
“We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.”
“We barely have a decade to reduce emission, after that all the prayers won't rescue humanity.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.”
“We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.”
“We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.”
“We base our fall into
love upon insufficient material, and supplement
our ignorance with desire.”
Source: On Love
“We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.”
“We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.”
“We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.”
“We basically maintain that we can have an America and world that works for all of us, but that we need to really engage, and inform and empower the American voter, who are a bunch of very unhappy campers right now. They deserve to be informed.”
“We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.”
“We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.”
“We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.”
“We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.”
Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle
“We be of one blood, ye and I”
Source: Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories
“We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!”
“We be tight like frogs ass.”
“We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.”
“We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.”
Source: The task, Tirocinium, and other poems