W Quotes
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“We sit through endless tastings where people with Naugahyde for palates pick apart our dishes and offer suggestions and changes that we? HAVE TO MAKE. I happen to love a braised pork cheek garnished with crispy bits of fried pig ear, or a smoked bison tongue salad. But I have yet to meet a client who wants me to make that for their daughter's sweet sixteen.
And at the end of the day, if I can bring integrity to one more chicken breast dinner, to the "trio of salads" ladies' luncheon, to the surprise hot dog cart at the end of the wedding, perfectly snappy grilled Vienna Beef beauties with homemade steamed buns and all seven of the classic Chicago Dog toppings, then I have done my job and might get another.”
Source: Out to Lunch
“We sit to express our true nature”
“We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who and where we are. This can be very painful. Self-acceptance is the hardest thing to do. If we can’t accept ourselves, we are living in ignorance, this darkest night. We may still be awake, but we don’t know where we are. We cannot see. The mind has no light. Practice is this candle in our very darkest room.”
“We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose, exile and a separate redemption. A separate world in which to wait.”
Source: Shattered Illusions
“We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.”
Source: The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety
“We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.”
“We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.”
“We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross.”
Source: Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes
“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth- our larger body- to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our individual days), stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles. We give ourselves over to the influence of the breathing earth. Sleep is the shadow of the earth as it seeps into our skin and spreads throughout our limbs, dissolving our individual will into the thousand and one selves that compose it- cells, tissues, and organs taking their prime directives now from gravity and the wind- as residual bits of sunlight, caught in the long tangle of nerves, wander the drifting landscape of our earth-borne bodies like deer moving across the forested valleys.”
Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
“We sleep for one third of our lives. Think about that for a second. Each day, we spend 2/3rds of the day awake and 1/3rd sleeping. Sleeping is a huge part of our lives, but we tend to minimize its importance. To illustrate this, think about your work life for a moment. Like sleep, you will also spend one third of your life working. As individuals and as a society, we talk and think about work about 10x more than we think about sleep. Doesn’t that seem odd?”
Source: 7 Cups for the Searching Soul
“We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.”
Source: Shampoo Planet
“We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.”
“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”
“We sleep in spooned positions for most of the night, comforting each other, holding on, not desperately, but with the certainty that we are over, recognizing that our love for each other isn't enough. We wake and something I'd forgotten stirred in me. I reach for him. Kiss him and let him kiss me back. Exploring each other with a recognition I know will comfort me later. And then he's inside me and I remember who we are. There is still love and I can dance this liquid dance and let it move me. He stops, pulls himself away from me, taking my breath with him. He lies there and I feel his tears on my flesh. His tears. All this time together and I had no idea he could cry.”
Source: Catastrophic Expectations: Sex, Love, and the Pursuit of Marriage
“We sleep on the same call, breathe through different skies, and love like stars who know they’re meant to meet”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!”
Source: The Lathe Of Heaven
“We sleep to dream and awake elsewhere. So are we always asleep or constantly awake?”
“We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”
“We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.”
Source: Versed
“We sleep with dream, fantasy and hope, but we always get up with reality.”
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”
“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”
“We slept beside them, fought beside them, bled beside them. We trusted them to watch our backs and save our asses – which they did, time and time again. And somewhere out there, between one gig and the next, something changed. We woke up one day and realized that home was no longer behind us. That our families were with us all along. We looked around at these miscreants, these motley crews, and knew in our hearts there was nowhere we’d rather be than by their side.”
Source: Bloody Rose
“We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We slept on mattresses stuffed with the soft seed-heads of dandelions.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.”
“We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.”
“We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.”
“We slowly lose, from day to day, those little things, that pass away, with the ever changing winds of life, that come from all directions.”
Source: Sanctuary of Expression
“We slowly work on getting more markets. We slowly work on building relationships. And over time once we gain people's trust and they see what we do and they see what we deliver each and every show, more and more people are interested in jumping on the Ring Of Honour train. I definitely think the success will continue.”
“We slurp a clear soup with dumplings and eat savory custard with eel and mushroom, grilled baby ayu, and bowls of sticky white rice with red beans. Mariko told me clearing one's plate was polite. That I can do.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“We slurped cool briny oysters wrapped in a gossamer sheet of warm pancetta fat and topped with a sweet green pistachio emulsion. We frantically scooped up disappearing clouds of Parmesan "air" with muesli. We popped bubbles of melon caviar between our tongues and the roofs of our mouths. We crunched down on delicate coils of sweet and salty olive oil spring candy. It was delicious, surprising, strange, and fun to eat this food.”
Source: Care and Feeding
“We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.”
“We smashed their schools, burned them, and shot people based on the time of night they were outside. They dressed up like our allies and blew themselves up, when they weren’t murdering the families of our actual allies and throwing their headless bodies into the Tigris. Write a five paragraph essay on that. Make sure each paragraph has a topic sentence.”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
“We smile at each other, and even though there are a million reasons why I shouldn’t, looking at her now, I can’t help feeling like I’m falling in love with her.
- Will”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“We smile at each other at the same time as we hurt each other. We’re all inadequate, weak & ordinary beings, but because we’re capable of being kind, for a moment, no matter how fleeting, we can be extraordinary.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
“We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.”
“We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.”
“We smile for Sisyphus, not that he rejoices, but in our hearts, we paint his endless labor with the colours of our own hope.”
“We smile, because this is how we save the world.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“We smoked a lot of weed together [with Seth Rogen and Jason Segel]. Lonely potheads will literally spend every day with each other until they get a girlfriend. That's essentially what happened.”
“We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.”
Source: Misadventurous
“We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.”
“We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle.”
Source: The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
“We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.”
“we so easily
let our fears be these
uncontrollable, raging monsters,
and yet we see our dreams as such
tiny little seeds… why are we not
letting the beautiful things be
the ones that grow wild?”
“We so frequently feel that we are lacking in many qualities which another person apparently possesses; and then we furnish such a person with everything we oirselves possess and witj a certain idealistic complacemny in addition. And in this fashion a Happy Being is finished to perfection--the creature of our imagination.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther