W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”
Source: Voices from the Sky
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.”
“We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.”
“We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.”
“We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.”
“We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money.”
“We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.”
“We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth”
“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”
“We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.”
“We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.”
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
Source: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
“we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.”
“We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.”
“We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.”
“We separated like oil and water. In the cafeteria, you'd see a table of black jocks, table of white jocks, table of rich white kids, table of Hispanic kids, table of Chinese kids, table of druggies, table of chatterboxes, and so on. Wait! There's a diverse table over there! With a few kids of different tenacities and economic status! Oh, that's the nerds. That's where I sat. We weren't cool enough for the other tables, so we didn't discriminate against anybody.”
“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere.
And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
“We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.”
“We serve a God that does His greatest works when it becomes impossible for us.”
“We serve a God who is waiting to hear from you, and He can't wait to respond.”
“We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.”
“We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.”
Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil
“We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.”
“We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.”
Source: Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns
“We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”
“We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.”
Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“We serve to regurgitate the same actions, feelings, and routines as a futile means of hedging off mistakes. Pursue nuance, and make mistakes.”
“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”
Source: Beach Music
“We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.”
“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.”
“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”
“We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.”
“We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.”
Source: Essential Works of Lenin:
“We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.”
Source: On Enlightenment
“We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.”
“We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.”
“We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.”
“We set out to change the world.”
“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
“We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.”
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.”
“We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.”
“We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.”
“We set the table, but no one ate.”