W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We move between two darknesses.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“We move closer together like sections of a tightened shoelace”
Source: Allegiant
“We move forward,
treading carefully,
assessing the fault lines;
the red flags;
the triggers, the trigger-happy destroyers, and
the destruction left in their wake;
and the seers and the vigilant doers as well,
those trying to stem the tide of authoritarianism and dictatorship.
We continually assess
when and how to protest;
when and how to silently stand strong;
when to retreat;
and if and when
we must run.
All must be reflected on,
new findings factored in,
continually assessed
and re-assessed...
Talk about what's happening--it helps.
Weigh your options, for yourself and those you love--it helps.
Weigh your options for taking action and making a difference if you can--it helps.
Make contingency plans--it helps.
Fear nothing.”
“We move forward, but we must stay in the present.”
Source: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.”
“We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion”
Source: Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
“We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.”
Source: UnWholly
“We move in moments, yet the moment doesn’t move. We move in the moment and that moment pauses. We reflect in years to come. The scent, the touch, the taste, the feeling that moment brought. That is nostalgia building, a memory forming. When we stop, we appreciate because we don’t always have what we want. We don’t always have what’s best, but we can reflect and appreciate what we had in that moment.”
“We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.”
“We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it?”
“We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.”
“We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp”
“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”
“We move through reality by thought alone.”
“We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.”
Source: Great House
“We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.”
Source: On Trails: An Exploration
“We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.”
“We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.”
“We move toward what we picture in our minds.”
“We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that.”
“We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.”
“We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.”
“we moved on
to celebrate his life
and our own escape
each of us conscious
of a level of mortality
drawing ever nearer”
“We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.”
“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”
“We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.”
“We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.”
“We moved up here [to St.Paul with my wife] and started to teach, we very quickly found out we were not equipped either to teach or to run our own pottery, and so we decided that we had to have further training.”
“We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.”
“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”
Source: The Shape of Mercy: A Novel
“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”
“We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.”
“We murder to dissect.”
“We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.”
“We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.”
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”
“We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls”
“We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.”
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.”
“We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.”
“We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use”
Source: The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
“We must abide in the abode if we are to achieve peace at home.”
“We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.”
“We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.”
“We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.”
“We must accept it when someone else wins and try to encourage them to hold that office in peace.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty