W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.”
“We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.”
Source: Thoughts
“We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.”
“We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.”
“We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.”
“We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].”
“We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.”
Source: Improper behavior
“We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.”
“We quarreled," he said. "Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides...”
Source: The Angel's Game
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain”
Source: Where Pain Thrives
“We quickly became friends with other art faculty members such as the ceramist Jim Leedy and his wife Jean and art historian/artist Bill Kortlander and his wife Betty. I also began taking classes in Southeast Asian history with John Cady, who had resigned from his position at the U.S.[CB4] [mo5] State Department because he thought it would be a huge mistake to get involved in a “land war in Southeast Asia.” In 1966, his warnings were starting to become all too obvious as the Vietnam war grew and protests against it emerged. Dr. Cady was in the thick of the protests and was even being shadowed by the F.B.I. After I finished my BFA in art in 1966, I began work on a master’s degree in history at Dr. Cady’s urging. He and his wife became frequent guests at our parties”
Source: The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
“We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.”
“We r not BIG than one grain of SAND,
also
We r not SMALL than UNIVERSE!”
“We raced around, drinking and shouting out the windows into the night, finding parties to sneak into or bars that never closed. We wandered the night without fear, went skinny dipping in Central Park Lake at 3 a.m., and found dark clubs playing deafening EDM to dance to until we collapsed.”
Source: The Sixth Borough
“We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.”
“We raise confident adults by being one.”
“We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.”
“We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.”
“We raise predators by treating children as prey.”
“we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.”
“We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.”
“We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.
Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right”
“We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.”
“We ran as if to meet the moon.”
Source: Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)
“We ran because we were loved.
We ran because we were family.
We ran because we were pack.
We were pack.”
Source: Brothersong
“We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.”
Source: How to Kill Friends and Implicate People
“We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.”
Source: Goodbye Tsugumi
“We ran like a herd of wild cattle.”
Source: Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts
“We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.”
Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“We ran our brokenness against each other, in pure abandon. I knew you weren’t in it for the long run. I could feel it in the yearning of our bodies, the way our skin merged with desperation over and over, the way we held on too tight. I knew you weren’t the answer to my loneliness or the cure for all that ailed me, but you changed my life.
You helped me realize that I could love again.
And for that I am thankful.
So thankful.”
“We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.”
“We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.”
“We ran to the others—it was clear Derek wasn't accepting a leisurely stroll. I took the lead so this huge guy wouldn't come barreling down on them. That wasn't the way anyone needed to wake up. It was still chaos. Derek barked orders. Chloe tried to calm him. When he didn't listen, I snapped that he wasn't helping matters. He snapped back. Ash jumped to my defense, snarling like an alley cat. Daniel intervened to mediate. Derek turned on him. Corey rushed to Daniel's side, fists ready. Rafe braced to join in if a fight broke out.
It was fun.”
Source: The Rising
“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”
“We ran well there in the November 2012, my first race with (Tony) Gibson (as crew chief). Unfortunately, we haven't left there without a torn up race car. We got caught up in accidents in November of 2012 and then again in November 2013. We cut a tire and crashed last spring, so it'd be nice to have a good clean run with the GoDaddy car. I like Phoenix and Gibson has won there a few times. Hopefully our luck will turn around and we can have a good smooth run and get back on track.”
“We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“We rappers are role models.”
“We rarely arrive at mastery; life always has another lesson ready. What matters is not knowing everything, but learning to grow with each new day.”
“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”
Source: The fall
“We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.”
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“We rarely deserve the lives we lead. We pay for them however we can, be it with money, guilt or regret.”
Source: His & Hers
“We rarely do anything with on single motive.”
“We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.”
“We rarely find a depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. Depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us. Everyone, everything, has a story, Gia. When you learn those stories, you learn experiences that fill you up, that expand your understanding. You add layers to your soul.”
Source: The Fill-In Boyfriend
“We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.
In my fear to be alone,
I distracted myself away from
the deep beauty of my own solitude.”
“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”
“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.”