W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.”
“We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.”
“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”
“We could have been friends, but you don’t care about friendship. I’m not angry. It’s not your fault. You’re an orca.
— Angels of the Ocean”
Source: Angels of the Ocean: Why endure captivity when the sea is so close...
“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
Source: Matched
“We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better.”
“We could have chopped down the sycamore with this.”
“We could have done this the nice way, but you chose the nasty way.”
“We could have had all of the beautiful moments in the world.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“We could have had it all...”
“We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.”
“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.”
“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”
Source: The True Meaning of Smekday
“We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).”
“We could have peace tomorrow if people really wanted it. But people would rather force their religion, their politics, their morality on others whatever the cost in human life.”
“We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?”
“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”
“We could have saved the world, we would have saved the world in the blink of an eye, in einem Augenblick, but we didn't, or I didn't, and love didn't triumph; I betrayed love, and often when I can't sleep, which is to say almost every night, I hear in my head the message on her answering machine, 'Hello, this is Kate, leave me a message,' and her voice was so fresh, like diving into a waterfall at the end of a dusty summer afternoon: you immediately felt washed of all dirt, discomfort and all evil.”
“We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.”
“We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.”
Source: Justice, Volume 1
“We could heal one another in a way that would undoubtedly baffle him: via intense, kinky sex. I suspected all his reading of fourth-wave feminist theory had neglected to hammer this into him as he would soon be hammering into me.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.”
“we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.”
Source: The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel
“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“we could just kiss, for hours… like it's everything. like it's art.”
“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
“We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.”
“We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.”
“We could live offa the fatta the lan'.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.”
Source: A Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
“We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.”
“We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.”
“We could make a treaty without a marriage."
"No," he said.
"You are sure?"
"Yes," he said.”
Source: The Queen of Attolia
“We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.”
“We could make pros and cons lists," I suggested slyly.
He sighed dramatically. "Or I could man up and freaking discuss this."
I smiled. "Yeah, let's do that.”
Source: What Love Means
“We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will never forget." "Because you will be writhing in agony all night and I will laugh unmercifully. It will be unforgettable.”
Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light
“We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.”
“We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.”
“We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.”
“We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.”
Source: Barney's Version
“We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We could never know what works best for us if we weren't curious.”
“We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.”
“We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.”
“We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.”