W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.”
Source: The Civilization Loop
“We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.”
Source: Losing It
“We spend so much time processing our thoughts that we often forget to align them with our feelings and it is in that alignment that we begin to find true inner peace.”
Source: Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life
“We spend so much time searching for clarity, forgetting that the fog is also part of the landscape.”
“We spend so much time trying to change others – in part – because we do not deeply believe in and embrace ourselves as we already are. And so more often than not we do not learn to trust and utilize our gifts and power whole-heartedly enough to pursue and fulfill our own passions, purpose and possibilities.”
“We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.”
“We spend so much time working on our dreams that we forget to just live them.”
“We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.”
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.”
“We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.”
“We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese”
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
“We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.”
“We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.”
“We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it”
“We spend too much time hiding illness.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009
“We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals.”
“We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.”
“We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).”
“We spend trillions of dollars to travel around the world, but it's in everybody's interest that we have a better framework, and not just for the United States but for the entire world, in which to operate and trade.”
“We spend years studying everything except the one subject we use every single day: how money actually works.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“We spend, you know, 48 hours on bogus stories, and the American people suffer. So I do think it is a problem. And I think that the media needs to, in some cases, not every case, but, in some cases, really needs to get its act together.”
“We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also put tens of thousands of lower income kids in college through Pell grants which has fundamentally all their opportunity. We did the same thing with regard to what we did on transportation. So we weren't just trying to - we knew we had to do something big to keep us from going over the cliff into a depression and pull us out of hole.”
“We spent a fair amount of time on Ukraine. And I think there's a path that we discussed that we will follow up on in order to try to resolve some of the outstanding issues in order to fully implement Minsk.”
“We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.”
Source: What Lurks Below
“We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.”
“We spent a lot of money on buying clothes, but we spend our best times naked..”
Source: Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
“We spent a lot of money on some players.”
“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.”
Source: Axis
“We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.”
“We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.”
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.”
“We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.”
“We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.”
“We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in from 11:00 in the morning to 11:00 at night. We often did a lot of varied things. It wasn't just about jazz language and the saxophone.”
“We spent all day travelling, living away from the people you love, not sleep in our own bed ... We are far from our own houses. We live in hotels, clubs. And now that I am a father it is much more difficult.”
“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”
“We spent all your life for things and not dedicate the things that await us.”
“We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.”
Source: Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition
“We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.”
Source: Bossypants
“We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.”
“We spent our lives making livings.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words”
“We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.”
Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir
“We spent six weeks there [in Vegas]. The only thing crazy that I did was shoot that movie [The Hangovers]. The stuff in that movie is way crazier than anything I might have done, drunk one night in Vegas. I mean we did it for real in the movie, so that's as crazy as it got.”
“We spent so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear the most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only.." "I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
Source: Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“We spent the dark nights together
But now
Even in the light
My heart and heartbeats are disconnected
How can I express my sorrow
That is invisible to her eyes”
Source: The Curved Rainbow
“We spent the entire psychology class mocking Pavlov’s dogs for being such mindless idiots that they’d drool at the sound of a bell. Then the lunch bell rang, and we all sprinted to the cafeteria like a pack of starving hounds, proving that the only real difference between us and the dogs is a college degree.”