W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
“We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”
“We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”
“We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.”
Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
“We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.”
“We expect our politicians and public figures to be just like us; that is, until they admit to being tired, run-down or - the very worst - bored. Perhaps it's a reflection of our nation's tall poppy syndrome, or maybe we simply want those who represent us to represent only the very best of us, not our day-to-day selves who also get tired or sick or cranky. None of us is perfect, but our representatives must be perfection personified: of unwavering good judgement and with a superhuman body and mind. They must also be capable of perfect restorative sleep, except when we demand them to work for us around the clock.”
Source: On Sleep
“We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict.”
Source: Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough
“we expect people to stay true to their words. we expect people to stay as they are. but change is the only constant in life. and people change as the seasons do.”
“We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
“We expect Serbian authorities to bring to justice all individuals at all levels who are responsible for their deaths without further delay. This also remains a high priority on our bilateral agenda with Serbia.”
“We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down.”
Source: And Yet: Poems
“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”
“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.”
“We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.”
“We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006.”
“We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.”
“We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.”
“We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.”
“We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.”
“We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)
“We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.”
“We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.”
Source: Merry Christmas
“We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.”
“We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.”
“We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.”
“We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.”
“We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.”
“We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.”
“We experience a new life with divine encounter.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We experience less pain in reality than we do in our imaginations”
“We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.”
Source: Open City: A Novel
“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.”
“We experience new culture with every journey.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We experience our lives like able persons. But end up with inability of taking the risk. From Hari Krishnan Nair”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.”
“We experience pain for a reason. It warns us of danger, signaling to take action. This process provides us with tremendous survival advantage.”
Source: Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
“We experience pain not from others, but from those to whom we are deeply attached. The stronger the bond, the deeper the wounds. Yet, the fear of getting hurt when breaking these connections prevents us from letting go, and that is why we endure repeated and unceasing pain.”
“We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!”
“We experience social pain and physical pain in the same part of our brains.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“We experience suffering because we have desires. If we can let go of our desires, we will not experience suffering. However, completely giving up desire is nearly impossible, as desire is a fundamental part of human nature.”
“We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“We experience the highest degree of pleasure when our awareness is focused on our awareness.”
“We experience the wish for more perfect bodies as our own desire, as indeed it is, yet it is hard to separate out the ways bodies are seen, talked about and written about and the effect of that on our own personal perception of our own bodies and other bodies.”
Source: Bodies
“We experience the world through the filters of our beliefs.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“We experience this emotional roller coaster because we can never find stability and lasting peace until our attachment and dependency is on what is stable and lasting.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“We experience this emotional roller coaster because we can never find stability and lasting peace until our attachment and dependency is on what is stable and lasting. How can we hope to find constancy if what we hold on to is inconstant and perishing.”
“We experience, while still young, our most thoroughly felt desires as a kind of horizon, see life as divided into what lies on this side of that horizon and what lies on the other, as if we only had to reach that horizon and fall into it in order for everything to change, in order to once and for all transcend the world as we have known it, though in the end this transcendence never actually comes, of course, a fact one began to appreciate only as one got older, when one realized there was always more life on the other side of desire's completion, that there was always waking up, working, eating, and sleeping, the slow passing of time that never ends, when one realized that one can never truly touch the horizon because life always goes on, because each moment bleeds into the next and whatever one considered the horizon of one's life turns out always to be yet another piece of earth.”
Source: A Passage North
“We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.”