W Quotes
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“We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.”
“We look to the sky,
in search of fortune
as our feet bleed
across Atlas’ traps.
In deep dug holes,
a lingering groove
voices the wisdom
of its adventurer.
[Atlas’ Groove]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.”
“we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.”
Source: The Moor's last sigh
“We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow”
“We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.”
“We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls attention to itself, whether scored by herons, cranes, or wires; illumined by sunsets, Perseids, or ballparks; broken up by the twigwork of oaks or maples, painted in rainbows, or just primed in the pale gray of my '52 Ford. If we are truthful, the sky is never neutral.”
Source: Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
“We look up
Pulled into the immensity,
Lifted into the limitless—
As if it were a hole
We are falling into,
Up instead of down.
We stand on the earth,
Breathe in the night.
It is all too big.
We go back inside.”
“We look up to see if it is day or night.
If stars burn cool and moon does shine,
We take to smoke divine and wine.
If breath of sun does belch its heat,
we boil coffee and prepare to eat.”
“We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.”
“We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.”
“We look, but we don't really see; we hear, but we don't really listen.”
“We looked at each other a little too long to be ‘just friends”
“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he never afraid”
Source: The Goldfinch
“We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry, and tangible—like when the air changes right before a storm. I could feel its power envelop me as it brushed across my skin. Even though I couldn’t see it, I knew a storm was coming.”
Source: Tiger's Curse
“We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“we looked at each other like
we were the sun and the moon
locked in a gravitational war,
bound to cross and bound to
break apart.”
Source: The Boys I've Loved & The End of the World
“We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.”
“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.”
Source: Unteachable
“We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.”
“We looked at it together- our two little faces peering back at us like ancestors or perhaps our own children.”
Source: Conversations with Friends
“We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.”
“We looked into one another's eyes, and I think we both knew in that instant that the past was behind us. We could never be to each other what we had been once.”
Source: Murder at the Brightwell
“We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading houses, which might have taken down all the rest in their wake. Therefore at any price, at any cost, the central banks had to quell the gold price, manage it. It was very difficult to get the gold price under control but we have now succeeded. The US Fed was very active in getting the gold price down. So was the U.K.”
“We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“We looked like a team at both ends of the court.”
“We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.”
“We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.”
“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
“We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.”
“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”
“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that has ever mattered to us.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“We lose all that time which we might employ better.”
“We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.”
“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”
Source: A Fighting Chance
“We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.”
“We lose faith when fate overrides.”
“We lose hope in an endless cycle of distress. To overcome our problems and find peace, we must realize we need a simple viewpoint shift: Focusing on the present and moving slowly. We should choose positivity, appreciate our blessings, and be satisfied regardless of hope. Once we see results, we can keep going. We believe our influential minds can handle this.”
“We lose huge portions of our lives to making a living.”
“We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.”
Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.”
“We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).”
“We lose more than we ever gain, But this lust just never ends, So gather whatever you may today, Before time comes and takes everything away…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“We lose names of things. Then the things
they named.”
Source: Cadaver, Speak
“We lose our ability to live fully if we neglect or ignore our responsibility to the other people who share this planet with us. We simply cannot reach our full potential without the insights and observations that other people--our teachers--have to give us. We cannot feel whole until we are helping other people to reach for their potential and to grow as strong as they can grow. We do need down time, and we do need time to ourselves, but we very much need to acknowledge our ties to our fellow human beings and act as if those people meant more to us than our jobs or pets or cars do. They are much more important than anything material that we ever can get our hands on or strive for.”