W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.”
Source: The Works: In Six Volumes
“We find these joys to be self evident: That all children are created whole, endowed with innate intelligence, with dignity and wonder, worthy of respect. The embodiment of life, liberty and happiness, children are original blessings, here to learn their own song. Every girl and boy is entitled to love, to dream and belong to a loving “village.” And to pursue a life of purpose.
We affirm our duty to nourish and nurture the young, to honour their caring ideals as the heart of being human. To recognize the early years as the foundation of life, and to cherish the contribution of young children to human evolution.
We commit ourselves to peaceful ways and vow to keep from harm or neglect these, our most vulnerable citizens. As guardians of their prosperity we honour the bountiful Earth whose diversity sustains us. Thus we pledge our love for generations to come.”
“We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.”
“We find things where we look for them.”
“We find total peace when we accept that, due to our karma, we deserve the good and the bad that is happening in our lives.”
“We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.”
Source: Basic writings on politics and philosophy
“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”
Source: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity
“We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum.
Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
Thunders.”
Source: An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences
“We find what's in our own heads.”
“We find what we are looking for.”
“We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.”
Source: Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983
“We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.”
“We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.”
“We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.”
“We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.”
Source: Guided Transformation
“We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.”
“We firmly believe in the power of unity and feel that it is easier to get pass hardships and challenges as a team. This gels us and keeps us strong.”
“We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.”
“We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”
Source: Killosophy
“We first create in the mind, then the hands. But we stop creating if there is no heart.”
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”
“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
“We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'”
“We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.”
Source: Toward the one
“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
“We first met through a shared view, she loved me and I did too.”
“we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.”
Source: Essays: First Series
“We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.”
Source: Winter Solstice
“We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.”
“We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.”
“We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.”
“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.”
“We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.”
“We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.”
“We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.”
“We flew into the small airfield in Monrovia where we were met by Jimmy, Captain Duffy’s assistant. It didn’t take long, driving on the back streets to get to the city hospital. Jimmy carefully avoided many of the potholes that pockmarked the wet streets but without seatbelts it was a bumpy ride that I wouldn’t want to repeat!
One German and two Liberian doctors along with some orderlies shared the responsibilities of running the hospital. A few local nurses and attendants completed the staff. These few people were all they had to do everything, and I guess the hospital was lucky to have them. One of the attendants wearing a bloodstained shirt accompanied us on our way to the morgue. As he opened the large swinging door I was hit by an unmistakable sweet pungent odor of death that nearly caused me to throw up right there on the spot. Not having as much as a handkerchief to keep out the smell, I simply covered my nose and mouth with my hand and followed the attendant into the metal building. It took a moment for my eyes to adjust from the still bright afternoon sun to the dark interior of the shed, but as they did, I witnessed a sight I can never forget. In the heat of this building were a few bloated, decaying naked cadavers lying on planks, with hundreds of flies swarming around them. If they didn’t have sheets for the living, it couldn’t be expected that there would be any for the dead. Turning on the single lightbulb hanging over a stainless-steel tray table with a corpse on it, allowed us to see the room better. The naked body directly in front of me, with its mutilated head propped up by a block of wood, was startling and is still vivid to this day. Although a part of his skull was crushed in, I could see where crabs had been eating the side of his face. Despite this mutilation I could instantly tell that it was Olaf. His ashen face had a stubble growth on it and the grey, gaping, bloodless wound on his forehead showed that he had either been in a terrible accident or murdered! There was no doubt as to what had happened to Olaf and I knew that it wasn’t an accident. Murder was commonplace in Liberia, especially in Monrovia.”
“We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.”
Source: Bob Hope
“We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.”
“We flipped over 200 counties that President [Barack] Obama won and Donald Trump just won, you [Jennifer Palmieri] think that's because of what you just said or because people aren't ready for a woman president?”
“We flirted because it was fun, but it was clear we both knew we wouldn’t be more than friends. And then…we kissed, and everything changed.”
Source: More Than Friends
“We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.”
“We fluctuate between joy and sorrow. That's okay. That's the thing about being human”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“We fly above the spectral shield that shall never be quite finished, but it's all right. We are our own prism of light now.”
Source: The Secret Horses of Briar Hill