W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.”
“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“We fuck missionary for five minutes and yore bored, and We're done...”
“We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do.”
Source: Feversong
“We fucked a flame into being.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.”
“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.”
Source: On the Road
“We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.”
“We functioned. We remained committed to each other. But how was it that we felt so disconnected when permanently connected by a shared tragedy?”
Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
“We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.”
“We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.”
“We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.”
“We gaan in op reusachtige, ongrijpbare collectieve projecten, zodat we ons afvragen wat we vorig jaar deden, sterker nog, waar wij zijn gebleven en wat er van ons geworden is. We zien onze verspilde krachten onder ogen tijdens het pathos van een pensioneringsfeestje.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
Source: Poems
“We gain from the new science of mind not only insights into ourselves - how we perceive, learn, remember, feel, believe and act - but also a new perspective of ourselves and our fellow human beings in the context of biological evolution.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“We gain internal freedom through external actions.”
Source: Compassion in action: setting out on the path of service
“We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.”
“We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We gain knowledge by going through life, education, reading and other learning techniques. And with this knowledge we are now able to imagine.”
“We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.”
“We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.”
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.”
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820
“We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.”
“We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.”
“We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.”
“We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
“We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.”
Source: Insights on Romans
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.”
“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
Source: The Giver
“We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.”
“We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'”
“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.”
Source: The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
“We gather as we always have: Naomi and
Ruth, Aphrodite and Helen, Eve and her
lioness. We are good girls. Mothers and
dancers and counselors. We are wicked
too, but we won't tell you this. Instead
we arrange plates of bread and fruit, slip
into the center of each other. Find our
childhoods, our varied pleasures, the aged
and blistered scars.
We are half drunk, half destroyed. Nothing
left but blood and bone. Still we surface—
fold into each other like paper cranes. Her,
like a long-lost lover. Her, a cool and
healing balm.”
Source: What Kind of Woman: Poems
“We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.”
“We gather jasmines, living a life of purity.
That is the harvest of hearts, untouched by mud.”
“We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.”
“We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.”
Source: East of Eden
“We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“We gather up a few thin blades of meadow grass and call them the meadow, when the meadow itself rolls off to horizons that escape our view.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.”
“We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.”
“We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. The water came in and smacked against the corral and broke the horses' legs. The drowned, and the chickens drowned. We sat on the hill and we cried. These are the stories we tell about the river," said [Ladona] Brave Bull Allard. The granddaughter of Chief Brave Bull, she told her story at a Missouri River symposium in Bismark, North Dakota, in the fall of 2003.
Before The Flood, her Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lived in a Garden of Eden, where nature provided all their needs. "In the summer, we would plant huge gardens because the land was fertile," she recalled. We had all our potatoes and squash. We canned all the berries that grew along the river. Now we don't have the plants and the medicine they used to make.”
Source: Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
“We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.”
“We gave each other a hug, [Richard Pryor] said how much he admired me, I said how much I admired him, and we started working the next morning, and we hit it off really well, and he taught me how to improvise on camera.”