W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.”
Source: Viola in Reel Life
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
“We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.”
“We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...”
“We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.”
“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”
“We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.”
“We hardly said anything, we seemed to communicate through the chessmen, there was something very symbolic about my winning. That he wished me to feel. I don’t know what it was. I don’t know whether it was that he wanted me to see my “virtue” triumphed over his “vice” or something subtler, that sometimes losing is winning.”
Source: The Collector
“We harm our environment when we feel like harming ourselves, but not immediately.”
“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“We hastily call someone a friend.”
“We hate admiring someone we hate.”
“We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.”
“We hate each other because we are ignorant, but love each other because we are wise.”
“We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other.”
“We hate 'em”
“We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.”
“We hate it when our friends become successful.”
“We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.”
“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
“We hate our friends' kids. You get completely stressed when Kyle and Lara bring their boys to our home and they put their chocolaty fingerprints over everything and nearly burst your eardrums with their incessant noise. You have to take a handful of Nurofen the minute they've gone.”
Source: The Chocolate Lovers' Club
“We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.”
“We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"”
Source: Selected Letters
“We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.”
“We hate so fast and we love too slow”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.”
“We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.”
“We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening.”
“We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“We hate to lose more than we love to win. It’s more natural to avoid pain than to seek extra happiness.”
Source: In Limbo
“We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
[Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]”
“We Hate William and Kate”
“We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.”
“We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.”
“We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...”
Source: Rosemary and Rue
“We hated ourselves for what we were made to do but we couldn't live with that hate, so we made it a hate of you, for being too weak to defend all that beauty."
He was silent for a long while, and she put her arm around his shoulders.
" And we enjoyed it , of course. Like the Kinslayer knew we would, like he'd primed us to because if you hate yourself enough and hate others enough, then doing terrible things to them becomes your only pastime, your only pleasure because in the moment where you wrack them with fire or slip their blade behind their eyeball, you have control, and that means something. It means something when the kinslayer is your master, and that's the only control you'll ever have.”
Source: Redemption's Blade
“We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.”
Source: The Book of My Lives
“We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.”
“We hated the gym. We loved it. We escaped to it. We avoided it. We had complicated relationships with our bodies, while at the same time insisting that we loved them unconditionally. We were sure we had better, more important things to do than worry about them, but the slender yoga bodies of moms in Lululemon at school pickup taunted us. Their figures hinted at wheatgrass shots, tennis clubs, and vagina steaming treatments. We found them aspirational.
So we sweated on the elliptical and lifted ten-pound weights, inching closer to the bodies we told ourselves we were too evolved to want.”
Source: Whisper Network
“We hated to see Coach Riley go. Coach Riley is a very smart individual and he knows his coaching style. He also knows how long to stay with it and move on. He is a very demanding individual. When you coach at that level like that it tends to whirl the players.”
“We hated waiting for grownies to talk about eternity. It seemed so obvious that everything was already eternal. That something made all of it. Something that loved and was beautiful and was cosmically and royally ticked off with what everyone was up to.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“We haunt the past to refuse to let it lie comfortably as it was.”
Source: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“We Haunt the People We Love
We haunt the people that we love,
And we become ruins by doing so.
Chasing them down every line,
No matter if spoken or lived by it.
Running in circles, remembering them,
While watching ourselves turn into others' ghosts.
We haunt and live—
And we will outlive.”
Source: The Willow Song
“We have
Not one
In common
No two
Are shaped alike
The third
Because of that eye we lack
In the fourth
Direction there is no hope
The fifth
is at the heart.”
“We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.”
“We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'”