W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We do one stupid thing on one stupid night, and now we're responsible for what? Stopping the end of days:”
Source: The Ada Witch
“We do our best work every time we do the best we can.”
“We do our real best only when we really do only to do.”
“We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.”
“We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.”
“We do ourselves no favors by pretending American history is either cheerfully grand or unrelievedly bleak, for American history is a human undertaking and is as subject to selfishness and greed, to cruelty and injustice, as we are in our own lives. Yet it is also true that the United States of America has grown stronger, freer, and more just when it has opened its arms rather then clenched its fists; built bridges, not walls; and understood that the promise of the Declaration of Independence includes not some but all.”
Source: American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
“We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.”
“We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.”
Source: The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
“We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.”
“We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.”
“We do pretty much whatever we want to.”
“We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.”
Source: Persons and Places: My host the world
“We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.”
“We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.”
“We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.”
“We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other - but never of divorce.”
“We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big" solid ones.”
“We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves.”
“We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a girlfriend of mine that I worry? She says, "Yes, I spent my whole life worrying - and some of the things actually came true."”
“We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.”
Source: Letters to a Young Novelist
“We do some of our best work in evangelism when we make sure people understand the wrath of God against them, that their plight is desperate because God is angry. The problem of unreached and unengaged peoples is not that they don't have the gospel - that's the solution. Their plight is that they face a God who is rightly angry with them because of their sin. ("Cross", p. 35)”
“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”
“We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.”
“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”
Source: Conversations with John Updike
“We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.”
“We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.”
“We do the best we can at the time we can.”
“We do the best we can." he continued. "It's all we can do. You are surrounded by people who love and support you. Let them inspire you to become the hero of your story instead of the victim.”
Source: Of Mòinteach + Mantras
“We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.”
Source: Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
“We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.”
“We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?”
Source: Dust to Dust: A Novel
“We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.”
“We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.”
“We do the right things because it's the right thing to do. We respond to others' needs because they have those needs. Our survival depends on cooperation. [p61, paraphrased]”
Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?”
“We do the self that is connected with the whole universe.”
Source: Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“We do things because we want it, not because they’re good for us.”
“We do things for others for ourselves.”
“We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.”
“We do things tastefully but we do a lot. My mom has a lot of traditional Christmas things she likes us to do together. We get fresh greens and make garlands for the house. She has a list of things to do, we bake cookies together and deliver them around the neighborhood. My mother likes to make gifts for everyone we know, including all my friends. She remembers everyone.”
“We do things that we believe are traditions that constantly send pain loops into our creation. We are causing pain in the loop from old traditions we don’t actually understand. It “defies our reason” and we do it anyway. We need to bring back the art of reason, but, not mental reasoning, we learn how to activate our emotional reasoning. Our emotions are intelligent. It helps us find the truth.”
Source: How to Be A Human Being
“We do things we don’t want to do in order to avoid doing the things we actually want to do.”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“We do things, we never thought we would, we live things we never thought we would, we think things we never thought we would. We barely know ourselves.”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“We do things we think is right, whether that decision is good or evil, it is just what has to be done for the good of the world.”
“We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.”
“We do this everyday—make a good thing
out of nothing,
be the strong ones,
be okay even when we're not.
But today, we're more than okay,
we are women.
So, take my strength, I've got plenty.
Take my hands, I've got two.
Take my voice, let it guide you
and if it shakes, ask yourself:
when the earth shakes,
do you think that she's afraid?”
Source: Sisters' Entrance
“We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.”
“We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.”
“We do three things, three things, friendship with God, friendship with one another, and open friendship for the sake of the world. Here's what we mean when we say fiendship with God: We believe that all of this relationship with God starts with God, with his choice of us. We believe that salvation happens as soon as we say "yes" to God. "God I receive you, I receive your choice" and we respond with our entire lives. Welcome to salvation at that point.”
“We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.”