W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.”
“We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.”
“We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.”
“We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.”
“We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older”
Source: I Know Who You Are
“We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try to ... not educate, but inform the animators [about] what the lighting looks like, but [in the end] they do it themselves. I don't actually go and sit there with them. [We] just had a couple of conversations.”
“We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.”
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”
“We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.”
“We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.”
“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”
“We exist as a composite of our experiences and exposures.”
“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.”
Source: Eat the Document: A Novel
“We exist before we are born and after we die.”
Source: Storm Child
“We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.”
“We exist in a co-created reality in which we cannot always choose all our circumstances. But how we think and feel about a given situation is always our choice.”
“We exist in a world where in the US, the most developed country in the world, for every dollar a man makes, a (white) woman makes about 79 cents. Trying to create false 'equality' by splitting expenses with a man, or taking in a man like he's a rescue dog from a shelter, will always benefit him more than it benefits you, even if you find it 'empowering'. There's nothing empowering to me about sharing my resources with someone who has access to more than I do.”
Source: How To Get Over A Boy
“We exist in multiple domains: Physical, Cognitive, Emotional and Spiritual. It is to our own ill that we consider any one domain above the others. We are most alive, most human, and most complete when we see the full color of multi-domain continuums.”
Source: Knowing Knowledge
“We exist in multiplicity. In the eyes of our parents, we might always be the child they nurtured. To a sibling, we might be a confidant, to a colleague, a professional... . Recognising that we are different people in different contexts can be liberating. It allows us to be flexible without feeling inauthentic.”
“We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.”
“We exist in the world of books.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We exist in the world,
yet we live in the mind.
When it becomes still,
we leave longing behind.”
“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained
“We exist only to exist.”
“We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.”
“We exist temporarily through what we take,
but we live forever through what we give.”
“We exist through intersections, but our conversations about diversity regularly push us to pick one identity for ourselves at the expense of others.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“We exist to build the business of our clients. The recommendations we make to them should be the recommendations we would make if we owned their companies, without regard to our own short-term interest. This earns their respect, which is the greatest asset we can have.”
“We exist to end the suffering in men and to end the suffering that men cause.”
“We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.”
Source: Cure for the Common Life
“We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.”
“We exist to serve the Lord”
“We exist under a gilded twilight, aware that life surrenders to death and love yields to loss. Yet, bathed in this impermanent light, we cherish the faces we adore. For even in the face of fading beauty, love compels us. It's a bridge defying the ephemeral, a testament to the enduring power of connection in a fleeting world.”
“We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.”
“We exist within the question of God.”
“We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“We expand what we focus on.”
“We expect a great man to be a good reader.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.”
“We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.”
“we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.”
“We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.”
“We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.”
“We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.”
“We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons”
Source: The Wonder of Boys
“We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.”