W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We never listen when we are eager to speak.”
“We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.”
“We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
“We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.”
“We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be...and that was happy.”
Source: Where Hope Lies
“We never lose elections. We always make a coalition with the winner.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”
“We never lose. We either learn or earn!”
“We never love a person, but only qualities.”
Source: Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion
“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”
Source: The Dream Lover: Short Stories
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.”
“We never make a decision. When the
time is right, the decision makes itself.”
“We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.”
“We never meet wrong people in life.
Either they are the lessons or the blessings.
We need both of them anyways…”
“We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.”
“We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel”
“We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.”
“We never pay anyone Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.”
“We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.”
“We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82]”
Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
“We never quit learning, no matter how old we live to be.”
Source: Forgiving God
“We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.”
“We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.”
“We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.”
Source: Sun Beyond the Clouds
“We never realize the value of breath unless we stop. Once you stop breathing completely, you will not be here to realize it’s value.”
“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”
“We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.”
“We never really did anything just for fun.”
“We never really do anything except talk about what we do.”
“We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.”
“We never really get away with anything.”
Source: A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
“We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.”
“We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“We never really know how others view us, but the one certain thing is that it’s rarely how we expect.”
Source: Tell Me What You Did
“We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.”
Source: Summer and Bird
“We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do”
Source: Summer and Bird
“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“We never really know what we give to someone else.
Sometimes a few simple words may change someone's life in a single moment.”
Source: The Silence Between the Sighs
“We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.”
“We never really learn from the first mistake or the second or third. It only hit us when we're given the last chance.”
“We never really love a person until we see that person without the lens of need, want, and fulfillment. Love isn't the frame to lense love through it rather love is a reflection of the frame to see things as it is in totality and total acceptance.”
“We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.”
“We never really perceive what color is physically!”
“We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.”