W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“we didn't always assume that just doing stuff that someone else is paying you for is of value”
“We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.”
“We didn't build God. We built the last thing we would ever build - and then we called it progress.”
Source: The Fifth Paradigm: The Last Year That Made Sense
“We didn't choose King, I told my mother. He chose us. Or we chose each other. Or maybe it wasn't even a choice at all. Like love.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“We didn't come all this way to replace stone with concrete – we must have heart, we must have dreams, we must have a genuine, invincible desire for universality - otherwise we’ll end up with concrete buildings bearing concrete beings.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.”
“We didn't come [to this life] only for the sunny days, the lollipops and roses! We also came for the silky dark nights, and the moonlight and the stars. We came for the soft veils of fog in the early mornings, and the rain painting circles in the pond... the hailstorms and the thunderclaps.”
“We didn't dance together. We danced our own dance, our own space. But we felt the connection. We were three people in communion with the music. The music sang and we sang back, loudly, with our bodies.
For a moment, all the superficiality of the world; all its banal cruelty, wokeness, and mundane distractions—everything faded. Our souls reverberated with the purity of music, the release of dance, and the separate yet united communion of disparate people in that single experience.”
Source: Karinderya Love Songs
“We didn't do a good enough job to make sure something like the Second World War could never happen again. We only looked at one side of the story. There were two monsters, Hitler and Stalin, and the regimes behind them, but in Nurmberg only the Nazis were tried. There was no justice for the Soviet regime.”
“We didn't do this. We didn't make her do this. She came this way. In fact, she's the reason we're like this.”
Source: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
“We didn’t even get to say goodbye.”
“Usually women are angry because I said goodbye, not crying because I didn’t.”
Source: Cowboy in Wolf's Clothing
“We didn't even kiss.”
“We didn’t even talk that day. Not a word. There was no acknowledgement between us, but I felt a connection. I was on the other side of the road. I was alone. I thought I was alone. Until I saw her. She had no idea of her impact. She was oblivious. That was the power she had over me. Even then.
Seeing her made me question what I was doing, what I wanted, what I desired, what I could do. Not just in the moment. But what I had been doing that lead me to this point, why I was there, out in the sun, my hands dirty and sore. My whole life, I could not remember anyone’s name. Nothing had made a formative impact on me. But right then I thought that might change. If I knew her name, I would remember it. That’s what she did, even before we’d met - she’d changed things. There she was, preoccupied, bent down, oblivious, washing her hands in a puddle on the side of the road. I knew she was the one. I was meant for her. I saw her, and right then, my life began.”
Source: Foe
“We didn’t explode.
It was more a quiet implosive retreat.
Patiently gathering my forces and wits,
Strategically placing every moment on my hidden board of fools.”
“We didn’t find him for three days because we didn’t realize he was missing. That’s the saddest part of this story. He’d hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents’ house and the neighbors’, out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.”
Source: The Dark Dark
“We didn’t find our rightful audience, but from the ashes of the AC scene, we shall rise again – the Phoenix always does. Our true audience will find its way to us eventually. It’s not unusual for a false audience to come first.”
Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus
“We didn't get our time.”
Source: Sing it, Sam
“We didn’t get your name,” Julian says.
The rat-man’s lips twitch into a smile. “I don’t have one,” he says.
Julian looks startled. “Everyone has a name,” he says.
“Not anymore,” the rat-man says with that twitchy smile. “Names don’t mean a thing anymore. The past is dead.”
Source: Pandemonium
“We didn’t grow up with the internet — we grew up inside it.
Every friendship, every mistake, every secret lived in pixels and chat bubbles. Adults think it’s about screens, but it’s not. It’s about the invisible places where we learned to be ourselves, to fail, to fall in love, and to start over — all while no one was really watching.”
Source: I’m Nineteen, I Study Computers, and I Grew Up Online: What Teenagers Really Do on the Internet — and What Parents Need to Know
“We didn't have last names before they came. When they decided they needed to keep track of us, last names were given to us, just like the name "INDIAN" itself was given to us. These were attempted translations and botched Indian names, random surnames, and names passed down from white American generals, admirals, and colonels, and sometimes troop names, which were sometimes just colors.”
Source: There There
“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”
Source: The Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1
“We didn't have time to get you an actual haircut," she said. "Seriously, did you do it yourself? Maybe without a mirror?"
I put a hand up to my head self-consciously and said, "I had some help from the General. And, hey, I didn't say anything about your man-shoes."
"They're steel-toed," she said calmly. "In case I need to plant them in anyone's ass as a result of him calling them man-shoes. And seriously, you let Toot help you with your hair?”
Source: Skin Game
“We didn't have to go looking for problems.”
“We didn't have to talk, and it wasn't awkward. We were just two lonely, out of place people sharing a holiday with junk food from the vending machine and a Claymation classic on the television." oh and later "I guess its a good thing we found each other then.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation.”
“We didn't have wooden stakes in the ground. We didn't have burning brushwood either. We didn't have fish from the Tigris or the Euphrates.
We did have fresh red snapper from Citarella, which I butterflied down the back; tamarind paste from Fairway; hand-skimmed olive oil from Tunisia. We had a small fire when Victoria's sleeve brushed past the stove. And when I threw a glass of water at her, we had a fit of laughter so overpowering that I had to help her into a chair.”
Source: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
“We didn’t have words. We didn’t have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous.”
Source: Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon
“We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observing but whose orbit we were forced to nonetheless reside within.”
Source: Boys in the Valley
“We didn’t-?” I whisper, my mouth drying in mortified horror as I can’t complete the question. I stare at my hands.
“Anastasia, you were comatose. Necrophilia is not my thing. I like my women sentient and receptive,” he says dryly.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“We didn’t invent territory. Lots and lots of other creatures figured out that idea on their own as well. Property works.”
Source: sciVive
“We didn't know how much love and forgiveness and understanding would be required to make it back on the path we were meant to be in, together. But what we did know was that we were here because we had both been willing to fight; to fight for each other, to fight for ourselves, to fight for love. And that means that despite all the pain that we had endured to be where we are, in the end, love won. ~Evie, Epilogue”
Source: Leo's Chance
“We didn't know how to raise a Heavenly Gifted Child. There was not a book anywhere that told us how to keep her safe from the unknown.”
Source: ANGELBABY: A True Story Of Faith, Miracles, And The Supernatural
“We didn’t know sadness until we had a point of comparison.”
Source: Such Small Hands
“We didn't know we were making memories, we were just having fun”
“We didn't know what effect this collision with another reality would have.”
Source: Time Shelter
“We didn’t know what to hope for, thing or nothing. Thing meant that our day, only somewhat extraordinary, would become truly remarkable, but it would also mean that whatever else we feared—a woman sewing us into our beds while we were asleep, for example—was possible even if it wasn’t probable. It opened things up in ways both surprising and permanent.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“We didn’t make sense anymore. And there’s no point lying, like you said, even on your last day.”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“We didn’t meet. We remembered each other in a world that forgot us”
“We didn’t need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don’t (yet) need a special word for people with only one head.”
“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.”
Source: Who I Am
“We didn’t need to read the puranas or epics, we just grew up listening to the stories narrated by our grandmothers. It caught our fancy, it fired and enriched our imagination, gave ideas and metaphors, and colour to our language! It is sad that the oral tradition kept alive by grandmothers is slowly dying! Though there are exceptions! I was pleasantly surprised when I heard my daughter-in-law sing Krishna songs in her mother tongue Gujarati, and Ashtapati while bathing her babies or when putting them to sleep!”
Source: Vergal: A Memoir
“We didn’t realize that although the meaning changed, our “dirty places” remained the same.”
“We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“We didn’t say anything. Just sat in the dark, listened to the tink-tink of the engine cooling, the wail of a siren in the distance.”
“We didn’t say much
just watched the laundry sway on the line like old stories,
mispronounced the name of a bird
and laughed until it felt like rain.
We spoke of nothing.
Silences had grown delicious.
And I thought of all the other lifetimes
in which I never left.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“We didn't say or write anything for a long time. Normally silence like that was uncomfortable and awkward. Like you needed to say something to fill the empty space in the air. But it didn't feel like that with Samantha. Maybe it was because I couldn't say anything and fill the quiet, but I thought it was more about two people just being with each other, enjoying the slowdown and the rare sunshine.”
Source: What I Didn't Say
“We didn't speak for three days, during which time I became so panicked at the thought of losing her that I sent her a total of thirty-nine hysterically casual messages - a photograph of my breakfast, a quote from a movie, a long text about which of my trains had been delayed that day.”
Source: Salt Slow
“We didn't stop burning witches because we invented science; we invented science because we stopped burning witches.”
“We didn't talk. Didn't need to talk.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.”
Source: Dear Mr. Knightley