W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we know the answer. We, too, are twinkling stars like diamonds in the sky. We have the ability to recognize our own brilliance. We possess the same potential to light the darkest night skies.”
“We sang, we danced, we talked, we laughed, we ate, we drank, but most of all we shared our contributions and I learned, that Lughnasadh night, that true gifts come from the heart and not necessarily from the purse.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.”
“We sat and talked. With Every word they spoke, I could see the deteriorating effect holding on can have on a beautiful soul. They had aged... Not like wine, but like bread. The worst part is that they didn't even see it. They thought they were bitter because they were alone... But in truth, they were alone because they were bitter.”
“We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.”
“We sat around for hours, turning over the mysteries of the universe, giggling like a dorm room full of stoners, all of us seemingly intoxicated by the truffle's powerful pheromones. A new ritual was born, an annual Truffle Fest that stretched on for the better part of a decade across state lines and continental divides. In that time, I've cooked dozens of truffle-larded dishes. Soft scrambled eggs. Scallops and salsify in parchment. Wild mushroom pizza. Butter-bombed risotto. Whole roasted chicken with truffle slices slipped like splinters under the skin. Above all, handmade pasta tossed with melted butter and anointed tableside with truffle- the finest vessel for the tuber's dreamy fragrance.”
Source: Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.”
“We sat at a mahogany table that had enough nicks and dents to be an English muffin. I wondered for a sec if the Irish called them English muffins or something else.”
Source: Lost in Ireland
“We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.”
Source: Killing Maine
“We sat beside each other,
with miles and oceans between us.
One of us was drowning,
and the other didn't know how to swim.
So we smiled at each other,
at the funeral of our love.”
“We sat down and Lend put his arm around me. Every single jaw at the table dropped. "Man," John said, shaking his head. "All this time I was pretty sure you were gay.”
“We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.”
“We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.”
“We sat down to eat, right?” continued Gonzales. “And so... yeah, we sat down to eat and then we talked about chairs. Chairs! That drove our conversation gooooood. And none of us wanted to talk about it, but we smiled and made the best of it. Said a bunch of smart things about chairs—and French café chairs, and shopping for one, and sofas and her thoughts on the proper cushioning. And it was very engaging, but why didn’t any of us cut the crap and say, ‘I don’t care about chairs. I want to— I don’t know—roll around in the grass with you!’ We just spend the whole couple of hours able to grasp each other’s ideas and respond perfectly, but it’s so careful that we don’t get anywhere. I don’t know why that happens. We got love all up in our heads, man. We articulate who we are, but we don’t show people. She and I are just clever. There’s no chemistry in being clever. I mean, why interview on dates man? It’s not like anyone’s gonna tell the truth. Better to lay down with her, like cubs, really be with her, and see if we want to hold each other or not. But you can’t ask someone to do that, huh?” said Gonzales, defeated.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. "They don't know how to make them here," he said. "What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
“We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn’t he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?”
Source: Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“We sat in good silence, for me relieved silence, watching the thick rush-hour traffic and the jammed streetcars -- all leaving us behind, leaving me feeling cast off and useless, remembering when I too hate somewhere to go, something to do.”
Source: Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
“We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“We sat in silence.
We sat in silence, but our hearts were not silent, our souls were not silent, our brains were not silent. So we sat in silence and I had everything to say, but no way to say it, and he had nothing to say, and every way to say it. When he was silent, his silence was loud— the loudest thing in the world.”
Source: Counting Stars
“We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.”
“We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.”
Source: Forever
“We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.”
Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly
“We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to find three men sitting side by side who knew better what a river was saying.”
Source: A River Runs Through It
“We sat on the top deck and spent the journey sharing stories from the places we passed. Pubs where I'd died at open mic nights, bars where she'd gone on bad dates. Every road offered another destination of a bad past date.”
Source: Good Material
“We sat perfectly still in the dim light as the wolf approached closer, head cocked, mouth closed, and ears semi-erect. With these signs of both curiosity and trepidation, it took a step forward and then backed off a ways, then took a few steps forward again. It lifted its nose and sniffed intently, and finally stopped at about eight feet away. For a moment all three of us were perfectly still, wondering what was going to happen next.”
Source: Wolves in the Land of Salmon
“We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.”
Source: Borderliners: A Novel
“we sat there and
looked into each
other's eyes
that was all
we needed”
“We sat there, passing it back and forth until my head felt think and skull-less.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had wanted us that day, and how none of them had got us, not for a minute; how we'd let them pay for drinks and candyfloss and then run away laughing, their cries of 'Slags!' and 'Bitches' ringing in our ears like respect rather than derision.”
Source: Sugar Rush
“we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.”
Source: Keeping the Moon
“We sat together… and there is a rare kind of magic in watching the sunset with your soulmate. Time slows, the world grows quiet, and all that remains is the breathtaking beauty before you and the warmth of their presence beside you. Sunsets are God’s poetry… a timeless reminder that while the sky may change colors, the heart knows it has found its forever.”
“We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.”
“We sat together at my kitchen table, just the vetkoek and me, then just me.”
Source: Recipes for Love and Murder
“We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married.
'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought.”
Source: Till September Petronella
“We sat under the orange trees,
whose branches bowed with offering,
globes of sun dangling like promises,
wax-skinned and fragrant,
dripping light through their leaves
in dapples that flickered like fireflies.”
Source: Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work
“We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.”
“We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.”
“We save numbers, not always to keep in touch, but also to know whose call to avoid.”
“We save our lives in such unlikely ways.”
Source: Fragile Things
“We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.”
“We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.”
“We save what we love, and we love what we know.”
“We saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.”
“We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman’s boat.”
Johannes aka ‘BB’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“We savour on great memories of happy times.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.”
“We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.”
“We saw a pale echo of what is now possible in 1990-1991, when Saddam Hussein, the autocrat of Iraq, made a sudden transition in the American consciousness from an obscure near-ally - granted commodities, high technology, weaponry, and even satellite intelligence data - to a slavering monster menacing the world. I am not myself an admirer of Mr. Hussein, but it was striking how quickly he could be brought from someone almost no American had heard of into the incarnation of evil. These days the apparatus for generating indignation is busy elsewhere. How confident are we that the power to drive and determine public opinion will always reside in responsible hands?”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark