W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
Source: Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection
“We bear the pain that is cutting inside. We touch the grief, we nurture it, we embrace it, until it shows us a way, a different way. This is how love is born, in an injured soul.
……...Jayita Bhattacharjee”
Source: Dewdrops of Compassion: A Book That Sheds Light of Soul in the Flow of Spiritual Ecstasy
“We bear the same few chromosomes; we are made up of the same chemicals. We are fragile. We break (...) But we are also strong...”
Source: Finding Zach
“We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.”
“We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.”
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."
The Cowboy's Lament”
Source: So Brave, Young, and Handsome
“We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling”
“We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.”
“We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even greater heights. They could become surgeons, CEOs, supreme court justices, secretary of state, and even president of the United States. We didn't teach our daughters that they were second-class citizens.”
“We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.”
“We became attached to the worldly possessions, as we were not capable of penetrating through the sky and peek at what was prepared for us.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“We became consumed with preparing to go on a deployment, going on the deployment, coming back, and getting ready to go again. We stopped sending young men and women to our professional military education when they should have gone. We stopped doing things like command climate surveys. We got sloppy with contracting oversight.”
“We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.”
“We became Facebook friends, I later
invited them to dinner, and now here we are.
At my dining table, where I have drugged them.”
Source: Savage Indulgence: A Grisly Short Story with a Twist Ending
“We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.”
“We became friends in Dublin through music and we had real names, Fionan Hanvey and Derek Rowan - what a dreadful name. And Paul Hewson. We gave each other nicknames just the way most kids do, but the nicknames had more to do with how we physically looked or our essence and I had quite square features as a young kid. I was called Wavin for awhile, but I'm a bit softer - I'm a little softer than a surge pipe so they changed that to Gavin. I didn't chose it, it was Bono and Guggi who gave it to me.”
“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.”
“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.”
“We became paid professionals of pain,
Specialists in suffering,
Aces of the ache,
Masters of the moan.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“We became poets
before we had learnt to walk
Our roots dug deep
with the slight touch of love
Our leaves sprouted after pain.”
“We became poets
before we learned to walk
Our roots dug deep
with the slight touch of love
Our leaves sprouted after pain.”
“We became refugees.”
“We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.”
“We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.”
“We became the songs we wrote.”
“We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.”
“We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.”
Source: The Little Virtues
“We become Assets to those around us when we RESPOND to what GOD wants to do with all our lives. Also, when we are ready to look beyond our weaknesses and ABSOLUTELY DEPEND on the STRENGTH of the LORD.”
“We become automatically unfaithful by referring to another creature of God as an infidel.”
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
“We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.”
“We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.”
“We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.”
Source: Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation
“We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.”
“We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.”
“We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.”
“We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“We become exactly like who we hang out with - we become our environment. We take on the very nature of who we submit to and they cannot teach us anything that they don’t know.”
“We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.”
“We become fat by overeating, not by not exercising.”
“We become fondly attached to objects and pursuits, frequently for no conceivable reason but the pain and trouble they cost us. In proportion to the danger in which they involve us do we cherish them. Our darling potion is the poison that scorches our vitals.”
Source: Carwin the Biloquist and Other American Tales and Pieces; Volume III
“We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.”
Source: Personality Development
“We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.”
Source: The Ethics of Authenticity
“We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“We become good at what we focus on, if we focus on stress, we become good at being stressful. If we focus on keeping peace of mind in every act, we become more peaceful.”
“We become good or bad because of our environment and companionship. Indeed, a human is a product of its environment and companionship which reflects in the personality inside out”
“We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences”
“We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.”