W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We fear the dark because it contains the unknown, but what we fear more is what we bring into it.”
Source: House of Leaves
“We fear the mindless zombie, the ancient mummy, or even the licentious vampire, but we don't fear the werewolf so much as we feel sorry for it.”
“We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. The present War on Terror is the War of Fear. No Fear, no control.”
“We fear the things we want the most.”
“We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
“We fear we are unheard. We are sure of it, but it is not true. It was in that original Gethsemane that Jesus, in the words of Hebrews 5:7, “offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard…” And we are heard.”
“We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.”
Source: Massive Black Hole
“We fear what we don’t understand and find serenity in what we’re incapable of understanding..”
Source: Finding Parker
“We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.”
Source: Double Happiness: One Man's Tale of Love, Loss, and Wonder on the Long Roads of China
“We fear what we most desire.”
Source: What I Was Meant To Forget
“We fear which we cannot see”
Source: Bleach, Vol. 1
“We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
“We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.”
“We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that’s how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas”
“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.”
“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.”
“We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.”
“We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.”
“We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.”
“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?”
“We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.”
“We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identical
structures.”
“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.”
Source: Almost No Memory: Stories
“We feel and know that we are eternal.”
Source: The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics
“We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.”
“We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.”
“We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.”
“We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows.”
Source: Brutes
“We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.”
“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.”
“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.”
“We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.”
“We feel fighting for dominance actually shows weakness. It's much harder to hold back the wolf than to let it have free rein.”
Source: Colorado State of Mind
“We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.”
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
Source: Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.”
“We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.”
“We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.”
“We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that are adversary to the Church. I hope the Lord will be merciful to parents whose love for their children has caused them to get into such traps.”
“We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.”
“We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.”
“We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.”
“We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.”