W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We lie in each other's arms, our hearts slowly returning to a normal rhythm, but this time, I know they're forever synced. This woman has finally fought the monster and tamed it. I'd have it no other way.”
Source: Monster
“We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.”
Source: Colors Passing Through Us
“We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.”
“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.”
Source: Finding Eivissa
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
“We lie to children even though we didn't believe the lies we were told when we were their age.”
Source: Postmortem
“We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.”
“We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.”
“We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good guys. We condemn people as evil to reassure us that we're not like them. If there's to be any hope of preventing these things from happening again, we have to look at the reality. That any act of evil in our history was committed by human beings like us. That, very often, we're all implicated in it.”
“We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6”
“We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.”
Source: Look at Me: A Novel
“We lied and manipulated and pretended to be helpless and were guilty of conspiring in our own idealization – and our own oppression. For whatever else may have been our goals, we still assumed that the need men and women had for each other, and its satisfaction, was indissolubly linked to their roles as conqueror and conquered, and we accepted all the implications that followed from that first parsing of human nature into active and passive…. The yins and yangs of heterosexual romance, the power differential between the ‘stronger’ and the ‘weaker’ sex… (xv).”
Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
“We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.”
“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.”
“We lift ourselves by our thought.”
“We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.”
“We light the sparklers Parth found in the garage, and we write our names in the dark, impermanent but all the brighter and more blazing for it.
This is how I used to think of love. As something so delicate it couldn’t be caught without being snuffed out. Now I know better. I know the flame may gutter and flare with the wind, but it will always be there.”
Source: Happy Place
“We light up around anyone who makes us feel screwed in, to the universe.”
“We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.”
“We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world. When we feel strangely thrilled by the sorrow of "Moonlight Sonata," it's the yearning for love that we're experiencing--fragile, fleeting, evanescent, precious, transcendent love.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.”
“We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.”
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”
“we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.”
Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
“We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.”
“We like investments where the risk is time, not price.”
“We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.”
“We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of holes, but also of threads that tie us together until the end of time. The more we embrace our fragility and shared sufferings, the more boundaries we overcome, until the light can’t help but pour on in.”
Source: Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
“We like lists because we don't want to die.”
“We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.”
“We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.”
“We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.”
“We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.”
Source: Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables
“We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that”
“We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like.”
“We like our relationships to come as one, but they’re often a two way street where we intersect for a moment and then move along for the next intersection.”
“We like ourselves best but worry more about what others think of us.”
“We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.”
Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.”
“We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!”
“We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.”
“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.”
“We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.”
“We like some people, we loathe others, and we're "meh" on the rest.”
Source: Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity