W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We here at the Agency believe that if you can’t kill it, you hire it.”
Source: Armed & Dangerous
“We here goe to cause preach the Gospel where it was never heard, and not to subdue but to civilize the Savages, for their ruine could give us neither glory nor benefit, since in place of fame it would breed infamie, and would defraud us of many able bodies, that hereafter (besides the Christian dutie in saving their soules) by themselves or by their Posteritie may serve to many good uses, when by our meanes they shall learn lawful Trades, and industries.”
Source: An Encouragement to Colonies
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
“We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.”
“We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support”
“We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.”
“We hide from ourselves by being with others.”
“We hide in plain sight, and it works. Majestically. Everyone else can fuck the fuck off.”
“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”
“We hide our deepest insecurities and our brokenness from a world of judgement and hurt.”
Source: Twist in the Wind
“We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.”
“We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigenous Canadians understand racism: they see it all the time, they live with it.”
“We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves”
“We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.”
“We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.”
“We high-fived by tapping our Twizzlers together. We’d come up with a million different ways to high-five without using our palms.”
Source: Lost in Hollywood
“We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.”
Source: Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity
“We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we’re all over the place.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.”
“We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.”
“We his grateful opponents erected this statue
To Apis a Thoughtful Boxer
who even when clinching never hurt any of us.”
“We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.”
“We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
Source: We the Animals
“We hit every jazz and blues club on and off Bourbon Street, dancing and drinking until we girls were drunk enough to go with the boys to the strip clubs which outnumbered all other businesses in the French Quarter. Here is where my solution unfolded.”
Source: Angel Sins
“We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.”
Source: My Life in France
“We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.”
“We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.”
“We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what they should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes. Men don't cry. Feminists don't shave their legs. Southerners are racist. Everyone is, by virtue of being human, some kind of rule breaker, and my goodness, do we hate when the rules are broken.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.”
“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”
Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,
“We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”
Source: The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain
“We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.”
Source: The Law
“We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the heart as the center of the body but at this moment, every conscious part of me is in the hand that he holds. It is through that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other’s eyes.”
“We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.”
“We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!”
“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”
“We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.”
Source: The Giving Heart: Unlocking the Transformative Power of Generosity in Your Life
“We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.”
“We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.”
“We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.”
“We hold onto each other like vines. Listen, with all the trouble in the world, still fellowship holds a kind of power over the soul.
Excerpt from 'How to Outlive the Life' by Leonie Anderson”
“We hold onto the people we love, even when they've hurt and disappointed us multiple times.”
Source: Mission Rider
“We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.”
Source: A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight
“We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.”
Source: The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
“We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.”
Source: Spiritual Precepts
“We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates