W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.”
“We realize that food is not just food in its physical expression. It becomes the essence of what it was and what it will become, carrying with it—into our cells, into our sense of selves—the energy that it has been imbued with throughout its journey.”
Source: The Little Book of Big Life Change: A Nine-Part Journey to Feeling Whole
“We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.”
“We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.”
“We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.”
“We realize the gift once it’s over.”
“We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.”
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced”
“We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but as a living being, vastly less alive than ourselves in degree, but vastly greater than ourselves in time and space - a being that was old when the morning stars sang together, and when the last of us has been gathered unto his fathers, will still be young.”
“We realize too late, and oftentimes on our deathbed that there was nothing to be ashamed of in life.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.”
“We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.”
“We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources within. And the hoarders were the core of the problem.”
Source: Emergency Skin
“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than any race, alone, could hope of accomplishing.”
Source: Way Station
“We…realized that no matter who won the race, we were girls, and we were from Soso, Mississippi, population 434, which meant we were destined to be last in pretty much everything else.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.”
“We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.”
“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.”
“We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different ways to preach. You can preach by praising. You can preach by preaching sermons. You can preach by just giving someone food when they're hungry. There are people who will never darken a church door but they will come to see a play.”
“We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.”
“We realized too late that a mind without a body can only exist for so long. There is an element of consciousness we couldn’t replicate that must be connected to embodiment. To sleep. To dreams. They’re important in ways we did not understand.”
Source: The Ones Who Look
“We realized we could make each other laugh - and sometimes that's all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.”
Source: Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song
“We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.”
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.”
“We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.”
“We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.”
“We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.”
“We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want.”
“We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.”
“We really are going to have to answer the cries of everyday women and men who are calling out for elected leaders to do something different. They want to be treated fairly and they need a political party who represents them.”
“We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.”
“We really are kindred spirits you know; conjurers in love with vampires. The Vamp Tramps!”
Source: Grey Eyes
“We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.”
“We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.”
“We really are, we represent, the core of basic American community values. And the name of the game is getting the word out, you know, and they are quaking in their boots, which, of course, is why they will not pass ranked choice voting.”
“We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.”
“We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.”
“We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and job creation and business. But the president has also made it very clear that he wants to put - he wants to put new elements in the tax code that are going to have companies pay a price if they decide to take jobs out of the country and then sell their goods back into the United States.”
“We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.”
“We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.”
“We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.”
“We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.”
“We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.”
Source: The Indicator
“We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!”
Source: The Book of Ammon
“We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.”
“We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.”