W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.”
Source: Selected poems
“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.”
“We rarely know the full impact of our journey on earth.”
“We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.”
“We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past”
“We rarely question the knowledge of the subconscious mind and do not let anything contrary to enter our mind. We refuse to hear any argument against our subconscious knowledge-which has become our belief and faith is the greatest hindrance in knowing the truth and understanding the reality.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.”
“We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.”
“We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.”
“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks we shared, Ben and I often ended up talking, and time and time again, he would say things that resonated so powerfully with my uneasiness about life, and back there and then, I believed it was an uneasiness unique to us, and that we were somehow bound by it.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.”
Source: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.”
“We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.”
“We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.”
Source: Star Wars: A New Hope
“We’re a different breed of rabbit who never flee the foe.”
Source: Rise of the Tong: A LitRPG
“We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.”
“We're a family in shock, still reeling. Mother was the songbird, the smile, the spirit of our house. In her absence, none of us knew how to fill the void. Father tries, but after two minutes of small talk, out comes his pocket watch, and off he goes, mumbling, leaving the conversation half done.”
Source: Persianality
“We’re a little messed up, aren’t we?"
“I’ve met worse."
“I know. I almost feel bad for Alice—you know, since she’s supposed to be the crazy one.”
Source: Giant Country
“We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path. Last time we had a bonfire, a neighbour tried to pull down the boards of his house. [...] I sometimes wonder why none of us tried to stop him. I think we wanted him to do it, to do it for us. To tear down our long-houred lives and let us start again. Clean and simple with open hands.”
Source: The Passion
“We're a mess, Kate.”
Source: Every Wrong Reason
“We're a nation of adult children of alcoholics. We don't get mad at the people who are inflicting the pain in this country. We get mad at the people who are pointing it out.”
“We're a nation of giant toddlers, dragging our blankets and bottles everwhere we go!”
Source: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
“We're a newspaper. A dying breed of media. Hell, we're already dead, we just don't know it. But we keep coming to work. You know why? Because it's in our blood. To tell the world what's going on. To keep them woke. It's our job to protect this world...”
“We’re a pack. We’ll face it together—one voice, one family, one pack.”
Source: Sedona Sin
“We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.”
“We’re a society that creates super heroes who aren’t really super heroes. They are just regular people who live in alignment with their goals and dreams. They don’t just talk about it, the LIVE it. You can choose to do the same.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.”
Source: Manners & Mutiny
“We’re a team, remember. You and me.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“We're a team, remember. You and me. And no one's taking you away from me, not even you.”
“We’re a zumra. We hunted the flame together, found the light in the darkness, but we were far from done, laa? Now we unleash it. We free the stars, shatter the darkness holding us captive, and return the world to the splendor it once was.”
Source: We Free the Stars
“We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.”
Source: Blind in Justice
“We're about to travel to the one country in the world where there's an open arrest warrant for Mark Zuckerberg. And Mark thinks this is the time to show us his fake gangsta handshakes.”
Source: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“We’re actually happy with things just as they are. Conquering more land would just mean the seven families would be at each other’s throats over how to divide up the spoils. We don’t want to conquer the world, we just want the world to think we want to conquer them so they don’t try and conquer us.”
Source: The (sort of) Dark Mage
“We’re adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you’re counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.”
Source: My Kind of Christmas
“We're afraid he has plans for others, but not for us. That he has hopes for others, but not for us. That he has a future for others, but not for us. That he's with us but that he's turned his back on us.”
Source: Curious Faith
“We're afraid of everything. We're afraid for our children, and for our grandchildren, who don't exist yet. They don't exist, and we're already afraid. People smile less, they sing less at holidays. The landscape changes, because instead of fields the forest rises up again, but the national character changes too. Everyone's depressed. It's a feeling of doom. Chernobyl is a metaphor, a symbol. And it's changed our everyday life, and our thinking.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“We´re afraid that if we fully surrender to our darkness, we´ll never come back from it. We´re afraid our darkness will go on and on and on, that there is no end to it and that we will get lost in it. We´re afraid that if we show these ugly, unpalatable parts of ourselves, it will be too much for others; that nobody will love and accept us, and we´ll be left alone with only the worst parts of ourselves for company.”
Source: The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
“We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.”
“We’re again in a free-fall. At this point, Jennie stops, sits on a step just inside the whitewashed walls. Below, two ocean liners, with its fiesta lights strung along the main lines, are anchored in the pitch black bay. Above the white town, Fira, twinkles suspended like a mirage.”
Source: Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“We’re alive!” Swedish told her. “I did not see that coming.”
Source: The Lost Compass
“We're all a bit bad. We all have things in our lives that bring us shame and regret. Things that have hurt our souls or hurt the people we love. But 're all a bit good too. i reckon we're mostly good actually. And life is about trying to learn the balance, plot our place on the continuum... We're not just made up of good and bad: we're everything else too.”
Source: Ink
“We're all a bunch of no-good apostates and blasphemers and murderers and fornicators and God-haters, so fuck the lot of us." For those guys, and all the guys we'd like to meet who share their perceptions, it's the Western hemisphere versus Islam, and no stops between.”
“We're all a byproduct of evil, some of us born into it and others created from circumstance.”
Source: Hooked
“We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
“we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which”