W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.”
“We live in condensations of our imagination”
“We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.”
“We live in cycles—we are seasons of life.”
Source: The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self
“We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“We live in fear when we've forgotten how to act from a place of love. Remember that, and set intention to act from a place of no comparison, jealousy, or fear. Police yourself on this!”
“We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.”
“We live in glorified cages, and refer to them as houses. We find comfort in our prisons, yet complain often of being sick. We have forgotten that our noses are not the only conduits for breathing; that the pores of our skins can breathe as well. When we prefer inhaling overused air to a fresh free-flowing air; artificial light to natural light; sedentary lifestyle to itinerancy, we begin to slowly deteriorate. We were created to roam, and not to stay home. We were made for nature, and nature was made for us.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“We live in God's amusement park.”
Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz
“We live in graves and call them home, and we further sustain the neurotic structure of those graves with elements of so-called sociological, cultural, traditional, religious, political and intellectual significance.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.”
“We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us”
“We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.”
Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us.”
“We live in media, as fish live in water.”
“We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.”
“We live in one of roughly a trillion galaxies, with a Sun that is one of a septillion stars, on a single planet of countless. There are roughly seven billion humans on Earth, and we are each one. Perspective.”
“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.”
Source: Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.”
“We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.”
“We live in our myths, we only endure reality.”
“We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.”
Source: The Touchstone: American Literature
“We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas
“We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.”
“We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.”
“We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever...”
Source: Asetian Bible
“We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.”
“We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.”
Source: The Berlin Stories
“We live in stories, and in stories, we are subject to phenomena beyond the mechanisms of space and time. Fear and love, death and wrath and wisdom, these are as much part of our universe as light and gravity.”
Source: Empire of Silence
“We live in stories the way fish live in water.”
“We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.”
Source: Who Owns the West?
“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”
Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story
“We live in strange times, being bombarded with information 24/7, having a hard time to distinguish between reality and hyperreality, between what is fake and what is real. I guess having strange dreams might be the most normal thing we can experience nowadays. As paradoxically as that sounds”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“We live in strange times.
Where people are making a living by killing others and hating on others. Being mean to others is a career these days. People are being paid to be mean, vile and cruel to someone. Those people are happy In pushing someone to the edge to be unhappy and miserable, because of their words or action. The very same people who preach be kind to others everyday. Choose to do better. Be careful, before you choose to support someone for being mean to others. They might be earning in recruiting you to hate. Being evil might be a good trend ,but it is a bad trait .”
“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.”
Source: Mostly Harmless
“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.”
Source: Mostly Harmless
“We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.”
“We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.”
“We live in such a hyperliterate world, soaked and saturated in writing: on our machines, on the streets, on our television screens. It's just that writing doesn't live in the boxes that it used to. The genie is out of the bottle. But that just means that the magic could be anywhere.”
“We live in such a messed-up world where going to school and getting a job is mandatory, but living is not.”
Source: Let Me Save You
“We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.”
Source: A Right to Be Merry
“We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.”