W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
“We build the path as we can, rock by rock.”
“We build these ideas of people, create the ones we want to be with, and then try to keep the real person inside the false mold. It doesn't always work out well.”
Source: The Chemist
“We build things to prove our worth, and break things to prove our point.”
Source: A Nation of Idiots
“We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.”
Source: Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe
“We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.”
Source: 1934-1940
“We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.”
“We built a home together, but then you decided it was just for you.”
“We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.”
“We built a life together based on the things we cared about, the things that we loved, we were blessed with a daughter who turned out pretty well I would say. We have been very blessed.”
“We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.”
“We built launch ramps and skated every parking lot in town. We were dedicated and relentless in our pursuit of skate greatness. And greatness is what we found.”
Source: Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.”
“We built machines to connect us, then forgot the hum of the forest was always speaking.”
“we built our own worlds
for as long as they lasted”
Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief
“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
“We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.”
“We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.”
“We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.”
“We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.”
“We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.”
“We built zoos because we are cruel, because we care not about the freedom of others, but only our own freedom, because animals are weak and we love to crush the weak, because we never understood and we are still not understanding that all living things have feelings like us!”
“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
Source: The Crucible
“We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”
“We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.”
Source: Collected Works
“We burn to give others light, you and I.”
Source: The Cycle of Eden: The Young Revolution
“we burn, we run, we love.”
“We burn, you burn with us.”
“We burned at the same frequency.
 Made of the same fire.”
Source: Through the Glory and the Mess: Music. Fame. Power. Trauma. And a love that refuses to die quietly.
“We burned there between the rails of the bed, combusting with such cosmic force and heat that the whole of the room, the hospital, the entire city of Galway, and the rest of the world dropped away and spun out of existence.”
Source: Dead Keen
“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“We burry ourselves into work, flee into consumerism, religion or other things to pass time. To make sure we forget our own mortality and the one of our loved ones, instead of embracing it.”
Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)
“We burst into a love affair so forceful it scares me. I’m married again, to another man and have a child with him – should I be allowed such indulgent feelings for someone I thought I no longer loved?”
Source: Two Men in a Shed
“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith
“We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear”
“We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.”
“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.”
“We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.”
“We buy balloons, we let them go.”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.”
“We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.”
“We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.”
“We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism”
“We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.”
“We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,
We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,
Things we buy to cover up what's inside.”
“We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.”