W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We fiction writers have a responsibility when creating a character; he or she must sit beside us as we read the story. If she isn’t, we haven’t done our job. Therefore, writing Dr. T’s character forced a plunge into places I had no interest in going. A person like Adam Turner would not have come into this beautiful world looking for a kid to control, manipulate, or wreck. There had to be a reason- that created massive psychic wounds.”
“We fight.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash
“We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.”
“We fight every night, now that's not kosher
I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer
And wake up to be greeted by an argument again
You act like you're ten
So immature, I try to concentrate on a cure
And keep lookin' at the front door.”
“We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”
Source: Essays Ancient and Modern
“We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.”
“We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well,
But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.”
Source: When I Was King and Other Verses
“We fight. Just like old times, right, friend?” Mouse asked, trying to laugh, but his lopsided grin was nowhere to be seen. The right side of his lip quivered. The left side was still. He wiped his runny nose as a tear fell. “One last battle between the Mop King and the Rat Prince.”
Source: Drowned Sea: A Dark Fantasy Adventure
“We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.”
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
“We fight on our own thoughts”
“We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.”
Source: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
“We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren’t equal.”
Source: The Wolf's Cry
“We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.”
“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”
“We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”
“We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.”
“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”
“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”
Source: The papers of General Nathanael Greene
“We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.”
“We figure out the purpose or function of a system from the way it behaves, not from our expectations or the purpose the system says it has.”
“We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.”
“We figure out what our new plan is tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow,” Raine agreed.
“Bring antihistamines,” Cassia added.”
Source: Willowmere Wonders: The Elemental Stones
“We figured the interesting question for them is, "Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them?" So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.”
“We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.”
“We fill our homes with furniture and our minds with facs, but poetry is how we fill our souls. It's the poor man's medicine...the deepest expression of mankind. If you can read poetry, then you have already felt the shadows of humanity's most potent emotions.”
Source: The Book of Lost Hours
“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”
Source: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.”
“We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.”
Source: Black Like Me
“We filled our lungs with the cold, still air and forgot our small needs and worries. We had a sound roof to shelter us, peat and wood for warmth, milk, eggs and potatoes in plenty to keep us fed. Health and strength we knew to be enormous benefits they really are. We were free to open our minds and let the stark beauty of hill and moor and sky strike into us.”
Source: A Croft in the Hills
“We filled the night air with light and shone brighter than all those millions of glittering stars watching us from the sky.”
Source: The Muse
“We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.”
“We filter what we observe and tend to explain away or ignore anything that doesn’t conform with what’s already in our worldviews. We interpret what we observe based on the assumptions and presuppositions that come out of our worldviews. If an observation or experience conflicts with our worldviews, we think it’s insane, unreal, or evil.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
“We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.”
“We finally beat Medicare.”
“We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.”
“We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.”
“We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.”
“We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."”
“We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.”
“We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“We financed politicians because they were friendly to our cause and would facilitate our projects.”
Source: The Thief and the Patriot
“We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“We find a direct link between results and the degree to which the executive sponsor remains visibly engaged.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.”
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.”
Source: Critical Path