W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.”
“We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. We can't all have a superhuman intellect like Albert Einstein's, but we can be super-curious. And we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.”
“We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.”
“We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people”
“We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.”
“We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.”
“We rely on God to rescue us from the crisis.”
“We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.”
“We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.”
“We rely upon both instinctive and learned behavior in order to survive. Thinking and instinct are interrelated, but there is less difference between instinctive behaviors and rational thought than many people acknowledge.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.”
“We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.”
Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“We remain”
Source: The Empyrean Series 3 Book Set
“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”
“We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.”
Source: Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids
“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”
Source: A Book of Memories
“We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.”
“We remain confronted with the inexplicable fact, or the no less inexplicable appearance, of a world travailing for perfection, but bringing to birth, together with glorious good, an evil which it is able to overcome only by self-torture and self-waste. And this fact or appearance is tragedy.”
Source: Shakespearean Tragedy
“We remain free, however, to listen to God's communication or not to listen, and free to respond or not to respond to what we hear. When we speak of contemplative prayer, we are speaking at the same time of awareness of this communication by God and of a willingness to listen and respond. Conscious relationship begins when I choose to listen to or to look at what the other is doing. After I have made this choice, I then freely decide whether to respond or not. Thus, by contemplative prayer we mean the conscious willingness and desire to look at and listen to God as God wishes to be for me and to respond. I may accept or reject God's initiative. in either case I have responded. When this process occurs, the person has the 'foodstuff' for beginning spiritual direction." (p. 34”
“We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.”
“We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health”
“We remain on the ground. We have no concept of up, for our
reality lies below. It is how life works. This too shall pass.”
Source: Objects of Affection
“We remain part of the earth's ecosystem, and participate in the food chain whereby we kill and eat various plants and animals, while our bodies provide a fair field full of food for a great variety of parasites.”
Source: Plagues and Peoples
“We remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.”
“We remain stuck when we forget our original nature, and our original nature is pure and limitless, it isn’t bound or attached to our past, mistakes, or circumstances; it is free from emotion, it is clear, it is light. It is ever changing and because it is ever changing it is free from bondage – mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bondage.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“We remain the ‘absent subject’ of our own education. We learn about everything except ourselves, our values, our emotions, and our unique capacities.”
Source: On Vocation
“We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year”
“We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.”
“We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.”
“We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.”
“We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.”
“We remain where we are.
Remaining where we are,
we go anywhere we want.
We go wherever we go.”
“We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.”
Source: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
“We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.”
Source: Sonora
“We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.”
“We remark, first, that in all ages, and especially in primitive philosophy, words such as being, essence, unity, good, have exerted an extraordinary influence over the minds of men. The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power. They have become the forms under which all things were comprehended. There was a need or instinct in the human soul which they satisfied; they were not ideas, but gods, and to this new mythology the men of a later generation began to attach the powers and associations of the elder deities.
The idea of good is one of those sacred words or forms of thought, which were beginning to take the place of the old mythology. It meant unity, in which all time and all existence were gathered up. It was the truth of all things, and also the light in which they shone forth, and became evident to intelligences human and divine. It was the cause of all things, the power by which they were brought into being. It was the universal reason divested of a human personality. It was the life as well as the light of the world, all knowledge and all power were comprehended in it. The way to it was through the mathematical sciences, and these too were dependent on it. To ask whether God was the maker of it, or made by it, would be like asking whether God could be conceived apart from goodness, or goodness apart from God.”
Source: The Republic
“We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.”
“We remember and in remembering there is
happiness.
Although dark times seeped in the hearts
of all of you who lived those days of
Commissioner Stevens and Captain Wiltse.
--from "Ka wa hauʻle”
Source: Hanai: A Poem for Queen Liliuokalani
“We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.”
“We remember how to live only when something reminds us that we are still breathing.”
Source: Stranger's Death: A Short Story
“We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.”
“We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.”
“We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.”
“We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel
“We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.”
“We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.”