W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.”
“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We laughed endlessly—deep, knowing laughs that come with the familiarity of family and the strength of love.”
Source: I'm Supposed to Be Doing This: An Adult Gap Year
“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”
Source: Dreamland
“We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.”
“We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.”
“We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.”
Source: Broken Abroad
“We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…”
Source: The Train of Arousal
“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”
“We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.”
“We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.”
“We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.”
“We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.”
“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.”
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”
Source: Elective Affinities
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”
Source: Novels and Tales by Goethe
“We lay blame and fault on the government, because we can't control the capitalists, until the capitalists become the government, and then it is too late.”
“We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.”
“We lay foundations that will need further development.”
“We lay in the tent for three days while the blizzard yelled at us, a three-day-long, wordless, hateful yell from the unbreathing lungs.
"It'll drive me to screaming back," I said to Estraven in mind-speech, and he, with the hesitant formality that marked his rapport: "No use. It will not listen.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.”
Source: On the Road
“We lay on the grass beside the cemetery fence, kissing and shivering. Her teeth started to chatter and I pulled her against me, which made me feel like a superhero for no apparent reason.”
Source: The Replacement
“We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.”
“We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.”
“We lay that way for a while, breathing together, watching the shadows flicker over the walls and each other's faces. She played with a wet strand of my hair, wrapping it around her finger. It should have been awkward, but somehow it wasn't. I felt something moving between us, like light or heat, growing with every breath.”
Source: Babysitting the Baumgartners
“We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.”
“We lay there completely bared to each other. Fully clothed but our souls naked!”
“We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united in each other's arms. Every kiss was a death wish, but it felt so right and real, so I just succumbed to each one and let him take over me like a tidal wave.”
Source: Lavinia
“We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along.”
Source: Lavinia
“We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth around us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“We lead in exporting jobs.”
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
“We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.”
Source: A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
“We lead people, but we manage things.”
“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.”
“We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
“We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.”
“We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.”
“We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?”
“We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“We leaned even closer and pressed our foreheads together for consolation, as a promise, fingers entwined, and it was like the last application of color to the canvas, the moment when you know this is what had been waiting to be completed, this is what had existed somewhere, even if just in your imagination.
You have brought it isn't the richness of being. Layer up on layer of color, and when the final one is applied, gold bursts upon the back of your closed eyelids.”
Source: The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel
“We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.”
“We leap frogs
Hop scotches
Tag our own smiles~
Why?
Because we're always IT.
Relentless diversion echoes in our anointed abyss of transition all the same.
Life is a happy stress.”
“We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.”
“We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.”