W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We gave each other the childhoods we had lost.”
Source: Fragments
“We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.”
Source: Thirty-two Stories
“We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".”
“We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.”
Source: The New Atlantis
“We gave people a chance and power to improve , change our lives and situation.
All they did is use the power to bully and silent us. Changed their own lives and made our lives and situation worse.
The mistake we did is to choose and believe in them. Now we must live with that.
The mistake they did is to be evil, incompetent, useless , greedy, selfish, and corrupt. They must live with that.
This happens when a nobody thinks money will make them somebody.
We have our own worlds problem. They are the worlds own problems.”
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“We gave the people great joy, at a time when a lot of people were experiencing a lot of pain due to the disappearance of a son, of a family member. All of that wasn't our fault. We were trying to make people happy. We played football, which was what we were trying to do the best we could. (Daniel Bertoni)”
Source: Goal!: I Scored a Goal in a World Cup Final
“We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116”
Source: A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
“We gave up everything just to sit at your table.”
“We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.”
“We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.”
“We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.”
“We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.”
“We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?”
“We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it’s crazy! But then we were like, if they want to get married.. that’s cool. That’s gonna destroy their relationships, but.. Heterosexuals deserve the same rights as homosexuals.”
“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”
“We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.”
“We gazed into each other's eyes as if writing love poetry in a diary before we shredded its pages into a string of unconnected words that would be sprawled on the floor of an empty house covered with layers of dust. We stared as if possessed by the same demons waiting to hover over each other and cause unavoidable destruction.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely harvest for food, with the help of modern high technology and the animal food sciences.”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”
“We generally escape the cage of poverty only to be caged by the never-ending search for unnecessary things to buy or want.”
“We generally get the evil we expect.”
“We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them”
Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state
“We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.”
“We generally strive to give children a good upbringing with the hope that they will eventually become good employees.”
“We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.”
“We generate our own Karma with our thoughts, words and deeds. It would be quite true to say that our thoughts create our karma - good, bad or indifferent.”
“We generated $13.5 billion in cash flow from operations and returned almost $21 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the March quarter. That brings cumulative payments under our capital return program to $66 billion.”
“We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.”
“We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.”
“We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.”
“We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.”
“We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.”
“We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.”
“We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.”
“We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.”
“We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.”
“We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.”
“We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.”
“We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.”
“We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands”
“We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because they haven't been fed in that period. So your evidence is being chewed up by the family pet.
I tell you - Dogs are more loyal than cats. Cats will wait only a certain period of time and they'll start chewing on you. Dogs will wait a day or two before they just can't take the starving anymore. So, keep that in mind when choosing a pet.
You know how a cat just stares at you, maybe at the top of the TV, from across the room? That's because they're watching to see if you're gonna stop breathing.”
Source: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
“We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.”
“We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.”
“We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.”
“We get a second chance at everything, including our mistakes.”
Source: The Good Mother of Marseille
“We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.”
“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”
“We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.”