W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.”
“We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.”
“We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.”
“We sometimes get together with others hoping their mood will elevate ours. In a way, we want to bring leftovers to the potluck and we're hoping to fill our plates with apple pie.
Energy tells us why this won't happen.
When we show up for a buffet of conversations, we will be drawn to the moods that reflect what we brought with us. Our feelings, beliefs, and thoughts seek similar energy fields.”
Source: Personal Development Insights
“We sometimes give someone something they need, with the subconscious hope that that will increase the chances of life giving us something we want.”
“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
“We sometimes hate the people we should feel sorry for. This helps no one.”
“We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.”
“We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.”
“We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. The power to heal from the pain equips us with the strength to rise up again and move beyond it all. We not only become stronger but wise enough to recognize and handle pain in the future. We however, have to learn to let the brick walls fall down so that we can experience true love once more. We must learn from pain and let it lead us to the most beautiful parts of our journey in life. Only then can our stories become fully complete.”
“We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.”
Source: Cosmos
“We sometimes hide our inability, impatience, or laziness behind the pretext of being realistic.”
“We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.”
“We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.”
“We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.”
Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
“We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“We sometimes learn, not from something, but from not having learned from it.”
“We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”
Source: Winner Within Success
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
Source: THE SHINING
“We sometimes need to learn that insults is not facts. We can't win argument with insults and leaving out facts.”
“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.”
“We sometimes rob someone of the opportunity to offer us something by asking them for that thing.”
“We sometimes run for our life to our death.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“We sometimes secretly wish we had the courage to just kiss someone who secretly wishes they had the courage to just undress us … and then make love to us.”
“We sometimes show lack of compassion by not giving a fat person a lift. Or by giving them one.”
“We sometimes suffer through self-imposed life sentences on ourselves or others for wrongdoings, despite having the key to freedom in our hearts.”
Source: God's Love Manual: A How-to Guide for Building Successful Relationships
“We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).”
“We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“We sometimes tell someone that they can’t throw money at everything, after we have caught (or got), or while we are catching (or getting), the money (or thing they have bought).”
“We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite directions. But this effort at special identity is loudly false. It is not religion but the church and science that were hostile to each other. And it was rivalry, not contravention. Both were religious. They were two giants fuming at each other over the same ground. Both proclaimed to be the only way to divine revelation.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.”
“We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.”
“We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.”
“We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?”
“We sometimes think that boring down worry on a challenge, or a problem, helps us keep focus on finding a solution. It is not true, it only worsens our tension.”
Source: The Anxious Entrepreneur: Anxiety Defeats Creativity - Creativity Defeats Anxiety
“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.”
“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]”
“We sometimes think we are helping kids by pushing them to perform or learn faster, but leading them in the right moment of their development will yield much better results—not only because of the learning itself, which will surely be more pleasurable, but because the children will be more assured of the mastery of their skills, since they feel more in charge of acquiring them.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“we sometimes think we need to look ahead for that hero
when the hero is a friend a family member or someone we just met
everyone has the potential to be that and admired and a respected soul .... treat everyone as a hero and you in turn becomes one...”
“We sometimes travel, but our minds always travel!”
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.”
“We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things”
“We sometimes unknowingly reveal that we are stupid by wondering aloud why, if they are really wise or intelligent, is someone not rich or famous.”
“We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.”
“We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.”
“We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.”
Source: OFW Struggles Hopes and Dreams
“We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.”
“We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.”