W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.”
“We passed stacks of books and parchments, the shelves either built into the stone itself or made of dark, solid wood. Hallways lined with both vanished into the mountain itself, and every few minutes, a little reading area popped up, full of tidy tables, low-burning glass lamps, and deep-cushioned chairs and couches. Ancient woven rugs adorned the floors beneath them, usually set before fireplaces that had been carved into the rock and kept well away from any shelves, their grates fine-meshed enough to retain any wandering embers.
Cosy, despite the size of the space; warm, despite the unknown terror lurking below.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
“We passed the great arid deserts of the West, driving through canyons and beneath rocky outcroppings and over great crevasses. We drove through the Mojave Desert, Owens Valley and Death Valley, and the dust entered our bloodstream and flowed through to every part of our body. The West was both eerie and breathtakingly beautiful, and we wanted to live there forever.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.”
“We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.”
“We passeerden een boom vol roze kersenbloesem en een windvlaag blies een school aan blaadjes weg. Ze lieten los, weg van de boom met zijn diepe wortels in de grond en kozen, net als ik, voor een leven met de wind mee. Ik boog voorover en volgde de dansende blaadjes in de zijspiegel van de auto. Ik wilde de lente niet uit het oog verliezen.”
Source: Niemand zoals hij
“We passengers through time, thereof, let us live with passion to fulfill the purposeful duty.”
“We passionate eaters elevate, we ennoble the bestial impulse to feed into a sublime activity, into an art, into the art of eating. And some of us create what might even be called literature while we're at it. We transmute what animals do into what the angels would do if angels ate food, which I don't think they do, at least not in their official capacity. This is what Freud calls sublimation, the highest form of impulse control. Yes, Doctor, I plead guilty to an obsession with beauty, edible or otherwise. I am guilty as charged!”
Source: The Man Who Ate Everything
“We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“We patiently endure every trouble.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.”
“We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.”
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.”
“We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”
“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”
“We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.”
“We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.”
“We pay far too much attention to externals.”
“We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.”
“We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.”
Source: Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.”
Source: Kushiel's Avatar
“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
“We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.”
“We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.”
“We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.”
“We pay with love for the love we have been given.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.”
“We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
Source: Heart of Darkness: Top 100 Classic Novels
“We people are lucky; we can turn our eyes to the universe above when we are tired of looking at the earth below!”
“We people are the great champions to make the possible things impossible by undermining our power with our negative thoughts!”
“We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.”
Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)
“We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.”
“We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.”
“We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.”
Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays
“We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.”
“We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.”
Source: Among women
“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”
“We perceive the world as we experience ourself. If we take ourself to be a physical independent separate object, we will perceive everything else in the world as the same. But if we experience ourSelf as unified Oneness, then the world will be perceived as Oneness as well, regardless of how the world is manifesting.”
Source: Love Outpouring: Experiencing Ever-Present Happiness by Illuminating and Eliminating the Difference between Who You Are and What You Have Mistaken Yourself to Be
“We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )”
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
“We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.”
Source: Works
“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”
“We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.”