W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can't really know what relationships will last or not last in our lives, romantic and otherwise. What we can do is give the best we've got to the relationships we've chosen for ourselves. We can show up with an open heart and mind, be grateful for the exchange of love, and trust in however these relationships evolve. We can also be grateful for the relationships that have ended, trusting that we received from them something important that has helped to move us farther along our paths.”
“We can’t rely on our own limited vision but must seek to see through heaven’s eyes.”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO
“We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget.”
Source: The Testaments
“We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.”
“We can't say, "Listen, you barbarians: These holy books of yours are filled with murderous nonsense. In the interest of getting you to behave like civilized human beings, we're going to redact them and give you back something that reads like Kahlil Gibran. There you go ... Don't you feel better now that you no longer hate homosexuals?” However, that's really what one should be able to do in any intellectual tradition in the twenty-first century.”
“We can’t see the true characters of those who lurk in the shade until they are exposed to the light…”
“We can't send him to jail, Estella, because adultery isn't against the law. Otherwise politicians would have rap sheets a mile long.”
Source: Stalker
“We can’t simultaneously think of two things.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“We can't sit around discussing pure evil without tea and biscuits, Iz. It's just not done.”
Source: The Dragon Who Loved Me
“We can't start over again, and it wouldn't "be perfect" if we could. We can only continue.”
Source: Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair
“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky, and see faces, lost cities, defeated armies. Isolated in the dark, with nothing to hear and no surfaces to touch, we hallucinate reading-matter. Our craving becomes generalized – for 'the meaning of life'.
If we lived alone in a featureless desert we should learn to place the individual grains of sand in a moral or aesthetic hierarchy. We should long to find the greatest grain of sand in the world, and even (in order to find a fixed point of orientation in time as well as in space) the all-time greatest grain of sand; the grain of sand whose discovery changed our whole understanding of grains of sand for ever.”
Source: Constructions
“We can't stop the seasons' changing, but we can fix the Earth by replanting it. The world was created in perfect balance, but our wrong actions led to having freezing winters in some regions and burning hot summers in others.
This planet that God created was made perfectly; it only needs help to regain its original beautiful state.”
“WE CAN'T STOP TOMORROW FROM ARRIVING BY CLOSING THE DOOR”
“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.”
“We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between people tat builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things, or let them keep stacking until eventually you are alone in a room.”
“We can’t talk about our own health without understanding our place in our environment, because in order to fulfill our potential we have to live in the context of our surroundings.
We have to know our place in the ecosystem of which we are a part, and this means living 'consciously': being aware of nature and how it affects us and how we, in turn, affect nature.”
Source: Discovering the True You with Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and Transform Your Life
“We can’t tell if ever night falls asleep
Our slumber veils many secrets: deep
The moonlit visage of this city life
Shines through the blade from a glistening knife
From the poem "City Night”
“We can't tell you the origin of the experience. But we can tell you the brain does appear to be built to have these [mystical] experiences. There are examples of people reaching similar states, spontaneously. But for the most part, it takes work. Meditation and these powerful prayer experiences require dedication and practice. But people have figured out how to do this, and the question is, 'What is the source of that experience?' The answer is, 'We don't know.' Science doesn't really have an answer for you.”
Source: Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
“We can’t underestimate the need for people to be heard, seen, and respected, which is what inclusion is all about.”
Source: The Boldly Inclusive Leader: Transform Your Workplace (and the World) by Valuing the Differences Within
“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“We can’t upload luck, we can’t download time, and Google can’t solve life’s greatest mysteries. So, log in to reality, embrace your journey, and appreciate the status of your life.”
“We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.”
“We can’t walk away because love brings us back, but all the goddamn hate we feel for ourselves, each other, creates our tragedy.”
Source: Vicious Little Snakes
“We can't weaponize scripture when it defends our behavior, and reject it when it convicts us.”
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“we can't win in this world unless we are patient.”
“We can't worry away our problems, but we can worry anxiety into our mind and body. Thought energy is powerful. It's not easy to do, but we serve our well-being best, when we face our struggles head on and accept difficulties that are beyond our control and trust that we can garner the support and strength we need to jump the hurdles. Life needn't feel like a walking on a tightrope of tension. True peace is the calm within the storm.”
“We can take absolutely anything that runs on PC or high-end console and run it on Tegra...I didn't think that we'd be at this level on mobile for another 3 - 4 years.”
“We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.”
“We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.”
“We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn't shop at Gap Kids. -Rose to Lissa on Mia and Aaron”
“We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.”
“We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.”
“We can take our Japanese clients around the world. We can take them to Brazil, Europe, anywhere. And we also take companies from around the world into Japan.”
“We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.”
“We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.”
“We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.”
“We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.”
“We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.”
“We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.”
“We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.”
“We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.
In the end, only action satisfies our longing.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.”
“We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal
“We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.”
“We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.”
“We can talk...and hopefully more.”
“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.”