W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We’re your daughters, mister. We’re your girlfriends, we’re your sisters, we’re your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen.”
“We’re your family, Fel, said So’a.”
Source: The Abode
“We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet.”
Source: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
“We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.”
Source: Inner Experience
“We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.”
Source: You Are Not So Smart
“We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.”
Source: Howards End
“We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.”
“We reach the end of the hallway and Pigpen winks at me as he opens a door.”
Source: Long Way Home
“We reach the final stage of healing from trauma when we integrate the past into who we are. It becomes a part of us that we acknowledge and provides understanding of our world.
The past is not a ghost we want to banish or exorcise; it is something we want to internalize.
Like at a wake, a wake as in a funeral, we speak of the dead for the dead. At this wake, we must defend the dead. Our memories must be longer than our lifetimes.”
“We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.”
“we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth”
“We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.”
“We reached shallow sands and started to die
as hails of spears and arrows landed on us.
With our feet we had to fight waves of water,
while with our hands we had to fight waves of men.”
Source: Son of Nobody
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”
“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”
“We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.”
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming swarm of human beings, relatives, customers, servants, postmen, afternoon callers, tradesmen, strangers who tell us the time, strangers who remark on the weather, beggars, waiters, and telegraph-boys--instead of this bewildering human swarm which passes us every day, fiction asks us to follow one figure (say the postman) consistently through his ecstasies and agonies. That is what makes one impatient with that type of pessimistic rebel who is always complaining of the narrowness of his life and demanding a larger sphere. Life is too large for us as it is: we have all too many things to attend to. All true romance is an attempt to simplify it, to cut it down to plainer and more pictorial proportions. What dullness there is in our life arises mostly from its rapidity; people pass us too quickly to show us their interesting side. By the end of the week we have talked to a hundred bores; whereas, if we had stuck to one of them, we might have found ourselves talking to a new friend, or a humorist, or a murderer, or a man who had seen a ghost.”
Source: The Glass Walking Stick
“We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.”
“We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.”
“We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants to sit with you.”
Source: An Emerging Spirituality
“We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.”
“We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“We read again: "यदिदं किंच जगत् सर्वं प्राण एजति निःसृतम्।--Everything in this universe has been projected, Prana vibrating." You must mark the word Ejati, because it comes from Eja, to vibrate; Nihsritam, projected;Yadidam Kincha, whatever in this universe.”
Source: Advaita Vedanta
“We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
“We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.”
“We read because we are essentially alone.”
“We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because our eyes are not enough by which to see.”
Source: Reading for the Love of God
“We read best what we read most.”
“We read books to find out what we already know but find it hard to express. The expression of ideas, not ideas per se, is what we seek when reading books.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.”
“We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.”
“We read data not to dwell into the numbers, or the failures. We dive into data to understand reasons behind the numbers and find opportunities.”
“We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.”
Source: The Sorrows of an American: A Novel
“We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.”
“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
“We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.”
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
“We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...”
Source: A History of Reading
“We read in the paper about a fifty-five-year-old woman-you read right, that's fifty five- who had quadruplets! Since the pregnancy was in vitro, it was clearly on purpose. I've got to tell you, we were all pretty happy that we hadn't done this and also none of us had ever considered it. Nor had we considered pulling out all our teeth with pliers or slamming our fingers in the car door repeatedly just to see what it feels like.”
Source: The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook
“We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”
Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.”
Source: How to Read and Why