W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.”
“We so often think about it as just talking, but what Jen realized through her experiences is that conversations are how you build political power--"I just have this one conversation and open someone's eyes to a different perspective. And I'm not sure they would have been open to the conversation if it hadn't been me. And that's pretty cool, right? I mean, that's really empowering."
And the thing about all those conversations is, they add up to a big win, and Jen was part of protecting reproductive healthcare in her state.”
Source: Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
“We so often think of change as negative, but the changes coming your way can truly be improvements if you choose to face them with a great attitude.”
Source: Attitude Is Your Superpower: How to Create Incredible Life-Changing Success
“We so often think of the past as a something like a nature reserve: a discrete, bounded place we can visit in our imaginations to make us feel better. I wonder how we could learn to recognise that the past is always working on us and through us, and that diversity in all its forms, human and natural, is strength.”
“We so often write about how gender limits us, whereas perhaps a better approach is to think about what we can achieve in spite of the way society limits us through its construction of gender norms.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone”
“We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.”
“We sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.”
“We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.”
“We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.”
“We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people.”
“We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately.”
Source: Corelli’s Mandolin
“We solemnly swear that we are up to no good. On this fortnight of October 31st, 1975, the four Marauders agree to follow each other until death do us part. We also agree to always keep secret the Great Power that we possess. Oh, yes- and one more thing. To make Snivellus's life during and after Hogwarts a living hell.
Signed (in no significant order),
Padfoot
Moony
Prongs
Wormtail”
Source: Forever Alive
“We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of view is that of our time, and our time, being later than the time of the greatest minds, can be presumed to be superior to their times; or else because we believe that each the greatest minds was right from his point of view, but not, as he claims, simply right.”
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern
“We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.”
“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?”
“We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.”
“We someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest in the water, thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.”
Source: Homegoing
“we sometime over think our concerns
this may also toss limits over our potentials
be humble in your heart
be grateful and humble to all, that is the core of what we posses
all summons and surrounds the rings of our being...”
“We sometimes allow someone—because of their confidence and our uncertainty—to ‘correct’ us where we are right, and they are wrong.”
“We sometimes become so obsessed with punishing villainous characters, that we forget the collateral damage is actually experienced by marginalized groups, and we shouldn't punish them for that.”
“We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.”
“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.”
Source: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.”
“We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.’ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves.”
“We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.”
“We sometimes consciously attempt to make someone feel inferior, usually as a subconscious attempt to make ourselves feel superior.”
“We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.”
“We sometimes do something fast to compensate for our inability or unwillingness to do it well.”
“We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.”
“We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality (p.43)”
Source: M Train
“We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.”
“We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.”
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of self-interest, but we are really proving the sincerity of our belief in the tauhid (Oneness) of Allah and our submission to the True God. Thus the Prophet pbuh said: "Supplication is itself the worship." (Reported by Abu Daud and al-Tirmizi, sahih.) If a servant prays the whole night to Allah, he therefore performs a great ibadah all night long.”
Source: Islam in Malaysia: Perceptions & Facts
“We sometimes fall in love at last sight.”
“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love.”
“We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.”
“We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.”
“We sometimes feel sorry for someone because of a situation or an event for which they have prayed.”
“We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.”
Source: Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.”
“We sometimes feel time I suspect as a tree feels time...dirt and seasons simply lived with like reasons”
Source: Red Camaro: Poems
“We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.”
“We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life!”
Source: Gratitude: A Way of Life
“we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.”
“We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.”