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 quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.”
“We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”
“We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.”
“We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.”
“We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.”
“We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.”
“We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.”
“We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”
“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.”
“We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.”
“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
Source: Chicken pox for the soul
“We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.”
“We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.”
“We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.”
“We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.”
“We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.”
“We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.”
“We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.”
“We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself.”
“We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.”
“We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.”
“We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know”
“We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This is where my life is right now, and I can either choose to stay here, or I can make a different turn that will take me somewhere else." I certainly am an advocate of taking a jump off the tallest mountain and just hoping a net appears. More often than not, when you take those leaps of faith, something really incredible happens. It might just take some time. You might take a long, hard journey, but the end of it is usually a great one, I find.”
“We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head”
“We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.”
“We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.”
“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
“We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.”
“We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.”
“We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.”
“We don't really make friends, they make us.”
“We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.”
“We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.”
“We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on”
“We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.”
“We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.”
Source: A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose
“We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.”
“We don't really watch basketball in Australia.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.”
“We don't recognize the power of compounding.”
“We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.”
“We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth”
“We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.”
“We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
“We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.”