W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.”
“We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.”
Source: The spectator
“We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.”
“We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.”
Source: Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures
“We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.”
“We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.”
Source: Coyote
“We make such a fetish of the family. I think we've created a tremendous mythology about it. We believe the family must be maintained, it's the basis of society, etc. Yet for a great many of us, the family has been difficult. Many of the troubles of mankind are family troubles, more devastating and more lasting than other kinds of troubles. Almost any well-run orphanage would be better than some families I've known. There are countless unjust and narrow-minded families, and parents who bring up children in hatred for reasons that are invalid.
Just being a family is not enough. There has to be agreement: not a narrowing but a widening, not bitterness and misunderstanding but sensibility and justice.”
Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
“We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
“We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.”
“We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.”
Source: Female Friends
“We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do”
“We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.”
“We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.”
Source: Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy to Maximize Your Potential and Enhance Your Value for Ultimate Achievement
“We make the best phone, we don't make the most phones.”
“We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know it. Gradually we'll become more and more accustomed to being conscious of what we're thinking and our various positive and negative states. We'll become more and more the masters of our mind, rather than the slaves.”
“We make the delicate liqueur chocolates, the rose-petal clusters, the gold-wrapped coins, the violet creams, the chocolate cherries and almond rolls, in batches of fifty at a time, laying them out onto greased tins to cool. Hollow eggs and animal figures are carefully split open and filled with these. Nests of spun caramel with hard-shelled sugar eggs are each topped with a triumphantly plump chocolate hen; pie-bald rabbits heavy with gilded almonds stand in rows, ready to be wrapped and boxed; marzipan creatures march across the shelves. The smells of vanilla essence and cognac and caramelized apple and bitter chocolate fill the house.
And now there is Armande's party to prepare for, too. I have a list of what she wants on order from Agen- foie gras, champagne, truffles and fresh chanterelles from Bordeaux, plateaux de fruits de mer from the traitor in Agen. I will bring the cakes and chocolates myself.”
Source: Chocolat
“We make the evil monsters spending billions money of the people, to get nothing and then remain engaged to destroy them plundering the resources, double of that. We still claim ourselves to be the wise and civilised characters.”
“We make the flow against what ripples us and we make the ripple against what stops us”
“We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.”
“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”
“We make the journey back to extraordinary love much more difficult for ourselves when we jump back in too quickly. It creates emotional chaos instead of the escape from pain we were hoping for.”
“We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.”
“We make the mistake of believing that because our problems are big or because our dreams are so big that somehow the solution to achieving those dreams or to solving those problems must be enormous too; when in truth is the opposite. The larger the problem, the smaller the solution. The bigger dream, the smaller the actions are that you need to start taking.”
“We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail”
Source: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
“We make the path by walking.”
Source: Iron John: A Book about Men
“We make the world most possible by helping the people we encounter be their most possible.”
“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“We make the world we live in. Market the world you want by sharing your voice with us.
We are all marketers. We may not want to be marketers, but we are all marketing by default whether we speak up or not.”
“We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.”
“We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".”
Source: The Rest Is Silence
“We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.”
“We make time for our friends. But in doing so, plan the time right so that you don't neglect your own needs.”
“We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.”
Source: The Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
“We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality”
Source: About fiction: reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses
“We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.”
Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays
“We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.”
“We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.”
Source: A View from Above
“We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.”
“We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.”
“We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.”
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“We make versions, and true versions make worlds.”
“We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.”
“We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
“We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much radiation in it that it will wipe out an entire city and think that it's not going to blow over your own cities? We all breathe the same air. It's madness.”
“We make worlds from the thoughts we entertain. It is how we perceive and play with existence. Most people can’t tell that their reality is less objective than they think. If they could, their approach to life would be transformed into something infinitely more extensive and compassionate. The more capable we are of manifesting from energy, the more impactful our created world will be.”
Source: Writing: A Spiritual Voice
“We maken ons liever eigenhandig onaantrekkelijk, dan dat we dat oordeel over onze aantrekkingskracht, waarde en betekenis aan anderen overlaten. We worden liever dik, dronken, ontrouw en ongelukkig, dan dat we het angstaanjagend grotere aanpakken, een ideaal waarmaken dat we koesteren en daarvoor erkenning zoeken bij anderen.”
Source: De vriendschap