W Quotes
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“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”
“We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.”
Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism
“We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.”
“We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.”
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.”
“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”
“We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.”
“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
“We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough”
“we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.”
“We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.”
Source: Diamonds of the Night
“We lived a dot-to-dot life, never thinking too much about the future.”
Source: Gun Love
“We lived a moment without wishes.”
Source: A Thousand Places
“We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)
“we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.”
Source: paulinskill hours and other poems
“We lived hand in hand with the sand, the wind and the sun. When the wind blew strong, the sand from the sea whirled up and violently battered the Mud Whale. The grains would get inside the keep and stick to people's skin. When the sun shone, the mud walls, the drifts of sand, and the grains on people's skin all sparkled.”
Source: Children of the Whales, Vol. 1
“We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.”
Source: Lake Success
“We lived in a golden age, but it was still a hell. Even in that hell, we created small, beautiful moments that made us feel alive again.”
Source: Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.”
Source: Revolution, She Wrote
“We lived in a mist of half-shared, unreliable perception, and our sense data came warped by a prism of desire and belief, which tilted our memories too. We saw and remembered in our own favour and we persuaded ourselves along the way. Pitiless objectivity, especially about ourselves, was always a doomed societal strategy. We're descended from the indignant, passionate tellers of half truths who in order to convince others, simultaneously convinced themselves. Over generations success had winnowed us out, and with success came our defect, carved deep in the genes like ruts in a cart track – when it didn't suit us we couldn't agree on what was in front of us. Believing is seeing. That's why there are divorces, border disputes and wars, and why the statue of the Virgin Mary weeps blood and the one of Ganesh drinks milk. And that was why metaphysics and science were such courageous enterprises, such startling inventions, bigger than the wheel, bigger than agriculture, human artifacts set right against the grain of human nature. Disinterested truth. But it couldn't save us from ourselves, the ruts were too deep. There could be no private redemption in objectivity.”
Source: Enduring Love
“We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.”
“We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.”
“We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive me to school every day and over the weekend I would go to the mall and then occasionally on Safari. Pretty normal stuff, apart from the Safari.”
“We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.”
“We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things that, were commensurate with the kind of income that he was making. So we got this kind of, double message, which was, y'know, "You work hard and you make as much money as you possibly can, but you don't spend any money." And you see how well I learned that lesson.”
“We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.”
“We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.”
Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.”
“We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“We lived in the Bull Court; a city sealed in a palace, and a life sealed in with death. Yet it is a proud city, and a strong fierce life. A man once in it is of it till he dies. So I, who have gray beginning in my beard, still say "it is", as if the Bull Court stood and I might yet go back to it.”
Source: The King Must Die
“We lived in the country, I went to school, and - an important detail - I slept in my parents' room. At night it was my father's habit to read aloud to my mother. Though he was a Greek Orthodox priest, he would read anything, doubtless assuming that at my age I wouldn't understand. Usually I didn't even listen and fell asleep, unless the text was some gripping story. One night I pricked up my ears. He was reading the scene from a biography of Rasputin where the father, on his deathbed, calls his son to him and says: 'Go to Saint Petersburg and make yourself master of the city, fear nothing and no one, for God is an old hog.'
Such an enormity in my father's mouth, for whom the priesthood was not a joke, impressed me as much as a conflagration or an earthquake. But I also distinctly recall - this was over fifty years ago - that my emotion was followed by a strange, dare I say a perverse pleasure.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“we lived in the gaps between the stories”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.”
“We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.”
“We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.”
“We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.”
“We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.”
“We lived only to dance. What was the true characteristic of a queen, I wondered later on; and you could argue that forever. “What do we all have in common in this group?” I once asked a friend seriously, when it occurred to me how slender, how immaterial, how ephemeral the bond was that joined us; and he responded, “We all have lips.” Perhaps that is what we all had in common: no one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd. We had our songs, we had our faces! We had our web belts and painter’s jeans, our dyed tank tops and haircuts, the plaid shirts, bomber jackets, jungle fatigues, the all-important shoes.”
Source: Dancer from the Dance
“We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“We lived separate lives, but I believed wholeheartedly that we shared the same reality.”
Source: Dissonance
“We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)”
Source: After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
“We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.”
“We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.”
“We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.”
Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes
“We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.”
Source: In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
“We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.”
“We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.”