W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”
“We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.”
“We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.”
“We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.”
Source: The Dark Divine
“We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.”
“We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do well is in a number of instances where politics matters, we can do a better job of tell you what is happening now, than other people. So, we can look at Syria today. We can look at the Eurozone today. And we can look at areas where politics is a driver and we can give you a pretty good sense in those areas of here is how to understand today.”
“We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.”
Source: Solid Fool's Gold
“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”
“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”
“We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.”
“We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.”
“We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.”
Source: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
“We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.”
“We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
“We don't get offered crises, they arrive.”
Source: Cross sections from a decade of change
“We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.”
“We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.”
“We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.”
“We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.”
“We don't get paid to cheer lead for Donald Trump. We're just paid to cover him.”
“We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.”
“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
“We don't get to decide who God is.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“We don't get to know anything but what we love.”
“We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.”
“We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.”
“We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.”
“We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.”
“We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.”
“We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.”
“We don't give 'em no respect..none!”
“We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.”
“We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.”
“We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.”
“We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!”
“We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.”
“We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely
to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual
responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one
wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by
attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and
contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a
failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You
must do your own waiting upon the Lord.”
“We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.”
“We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.”
“We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.”
Source: Tempting Danger
“We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.”
“We don't grow older, we grow riper.”
“We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.”
“We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.”
“We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”
“We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!”
“We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.”
“We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.”