W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.”
“We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.”
“We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.”
Source: Home to Harmony
“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.”
Source: The Cherry Orchard
“We just planted our 21st church.”
“We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.”
“We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.”
“We just remained very calm and for the first time talked about separating. We spent like a month and a half together after that, and then moved out simultaneously from the apartment to different places on the same day. We even said, look, you know, you’re not going to leave me, I’m not going to leave you. we’ll just move out on the same day. It was apparent that we were both ready to do this. When the time came I helped her move some of her things and she helped me move some of my things. The feeling between us was almost like lovers who for some reason had to leave each other. The night that we said goodbye—it was like 11 o’clock and the house was empty. Everything had been put into trucks and moved and so forth and we were in the house and there was no place else to go and so we sat down on the floor and laying down on the floor in our overcoats and I held her and we both cried and it was just heartrending and then we just separated and that was pretty much it. [SUPERVISOR, AGE 38, DIVORCED AFTER 19 YEARS]”
Source: Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
“We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.”
“We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.”
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
Source: Mockingjay
“We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.”
“We just say: the divorce didn't work out.”
“We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.”
“We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.”
“We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.”
“We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.”
“We just sort of of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other : he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“We just started seeing a nutritionist who changes our diet every 10 days.”
“We just tend to live our lives without even knowing that there are certain principles that enhance a better passage through life.”
“We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!”
“We just tried to overcome it. Because we couldn't stay mired in negative feelings forever. These days I'm like...If I pour these feelings into something, if I take the things I've felt or my mood and make it into a song, then I feel a bit better.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”
“We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.”
“We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.”
“We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.”
“We just want to live a lovely life.”
“We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.”
“We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.”
“We just want you to be happy...but they never explained how...I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why.”
Source: Gone Girl
“We just wanted to build the best thing we could build”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.”
“We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.”
“We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.”
“We just wanted to see whose dick was in yer mouth. Call it curiosity.”
Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park
“We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.”
“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.”
“We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.”
“We just were and I just was. We lived in a moment and danced until darkness caressed our words. It was a chapter, a story, a lovely memory forever cherished in my memories.”
“We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For instance, there are colours that aren't in the film that would have been there in reality. I think part of the look of the film not only has to do with the way it's shot and lit, but also the lack of certain colours that give it a softness which really suits it because there's more focus on the characters. For instance, there's no yellow at all until we get to Miss Stubbs' flat at the very end.”
“We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.”
“We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is so specific and so outrageous and so fun. And by far the hardest character to cast out of everybody to find someone who was capable of, you know, doing, you know, the comedy and just with the broadness and to be also just a really brilliant actor, you know, to do naturalism.”
“We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.”
“We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.”
“We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.”
“We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.”
Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)
“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”
Source: Any human heart: a novel