W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We tend to find Horcruxes in humans. A different concept - who'd have thought it like that, right?”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“We tend to find what we look for in other people.”
“We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.”
“We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!”
Source: Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace
“We tend to focus overly on the externals: a certain sort of room, particular kinds of clothes, a certain level of hormones... But the most important ingredient in encouraging us to take off our clothes and present ourselves without inhibition or fear is - in the end - trust. Trust that a partner has our best interests at heart, that we aren't ever going to be mocked, that there is loyalty and long-term concern at play, that we are with someone who can be delicate with our feelings. Sex itself may be rough and powerful; the feelings behind sex must be anything but”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?”
Source: The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III
“We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
“We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.”
“We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“We tend to forget that we are his servants and not the other way around. It is not the servant's place to rebuke the master.”
“We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.”
“We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking”
“We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.”
Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“We tend to get what we expect.”
“We tend to give much less consideration to how we feel. But how you feel is the earliest indicator of your health on a cellular level.”
Source: Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
“We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.”
“We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down.”
“We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.”
Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.”
Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
“We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.”
“We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.”
“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.”
“We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudgingly, if at all.”
Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
“We tend to live up to our expectations.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01
“We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.”
“We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.”
“We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has”
“We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.”
“We tend to make the thing in the way the way.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have
“We tend to make things overly complicated. And yet the answer is often quite simple: be kind in the present moment.”
“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”
Source: Bad Connections: A Novel
“We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire”
“We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.”
“We tend to outdo ourselves.”
“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.”
“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.”
“We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.”
“We tend to overlook only those vices that we also have.”
“We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.”
“We tend to overpack. If it does not add value to your life journey, don’t bring it along for the ride.”
“We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.”
“We tend to personalize our emotions. We project our feelings (anger, fear, guilt, etc.). However, these feelings are emotional states that are dormant within each of us, which get triggered by interacting with people, places, and situations.”
Source: Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
“We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
“We tend to promise by our hopes and live by our fears.”
“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”