W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.”
“We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.”
“We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.”
“We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”
“We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.”
“We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.”
“We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.”
Source: Collected Works
“We do well to be our paramount ‘significant one’. Being our best friend entails respecting ourselves, recognizing our way of living and accepting what we are and how we are. It can give us the power to understand and appreciate the others. ("Being my best friend").”
“We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.”
Source: Grace Notes
“We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.”
“We do what we are and we are what we do.”
“We do what we can. The results are none of our business.”
Source: Telegraph Avenue then
“We do what we do, because of who we are, not because of what we do.”
“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”
“We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.”
“We do what we like, and we like what we do.”
“We do what we love best.”
“We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.”
“We do what we've always done. We pretend to be what they want us to be and do what we want whenever they're not looking.”
Source: Boy at the Window
“We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.”
“We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.”
“We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether it happens to be judged to be good or evil is a matter for others to decide.'-Ian Brady, Moors Murderer.”
Source: The American Compendium of British Crimes
“We do wish they’d have the same fervor and monetary backing for, say, a group of black legal gun carriers in Ferguson, Missouri, as they do white folks.”
Source: The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
“We do wrong because people do it, never realizing that we are the people.”
“We do wrong. It's not bad but making mistakes if we don't realize it that's called bad or the baddest of all...what we learn from our mistakes that's important...”
“We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.”
“We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.”
“We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.”
“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.”
“We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?”
Source: The Treatment of disease
“We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.”
“We doen het - we doen wat we kunnen, maar we kunnen helemaal niets met deze regering.”
Source: De fundamenten
“We doing these things because we’re moral, enlightened people. We’re doing these things because we are embedded within longstanding structures of institutional power, and education is just one of these functions.
And it is a function with tremendous social power to oppress or to legitimize, to open or to close, to create or to calcify, to inscribe or to erase, to pardon or to punish- to dictate, or to free.
The one we choose to do, we ought to choose carefully.”
“We domesticate humans the same way we domesticate a dog or any other animal: with punishment and reward. This is perfectly normal. What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. We are afraid to be punished, but later we are also afraid of not getting the rewards, of not being good enough for Mom or Dad, sibling or teacher. The need to be accepted is born. Before that, we don't care whether we are accepted or not. People's opinions are not important. They are not important because we just want to play and we live in the present. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough for someone else is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image. Then we try to project that image according to what they want us to be, just to be accepted, just to have the reward. We learn to pretend to be what we are not...”
Source: The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
“We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.”
“We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.”
“We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.”
“We don't act like that because we are in good humor; we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“We don't actually know what a positive or negative experience is. Some of the most difficult and stressful moments of our lives also end up being the most formative and motivating. Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating. Don't trust your conception of positive/negative experiences. All that we know for certain is what hurts us in the moment and what doesn't. And that's not worth much.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“We don't agree and we never shall, so we'll be good friends all our lives, but we won't go and do anything rash.”
Source: Little Women
“We don't all dream of being a warrior. We're healers, not fighters, and we managed to live in peace before you arrived. Not every argument needs to be settled with claws.”
Source: Tigerheart's Shadow
“We don't all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something.”
Source: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“we don't all have to be the same in every dimension in order to appreciate and respect each other.”
“We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done”
Source: The Queen of the Tearling
“We don’t always choose our situation. But, we can always choose who we want to be in that situation.”
Source: Prairie Magic: Mystics, Mystery and Miracles
“We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.”
Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
“We don't always get what we want but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“We don’t always get what we want but that doesn’t mean we should under sell what we have. Practice the art of gratitude.”
“We don't always have a choice in our fate.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing