W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.”
“We think we know how to listen. But often our minds wander, and the next thing we know we're thinking about things not happening in the room...Really listening requires being in your body. You listen with your ears, your sense of hearing, of course, but at the highest level, you can listen with almost a sixth sense.”
Source: Introduction to the Alexander Technique: A Practical Guide for Actors
“We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.”
Source: DARKNESS VISIBLE
“We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.”
Source: The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel
“We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“We think we know the ones we love.
Our husbands, our wives. We know them - we are them, sometimes; when separated at a party we find ourselves voicing their opinions, their taste in food or books, telling an anecdote that never happened to us but happened to them. We watch their tics of conversation, of driving and dressing, how they touch a sugar cube to their coffee and stare as it turns white to brown, then drop it, satisfied, into the cup. I watched my own husband do that every morning; I was a vigilant wife.
We think we know them. We think we love them. But what we love turns out to be a poor translation, a translation we ourselves have made, from a language we barely know. We try to get past it to the original, but we never can. We have seen it all. But what have we really understood?”
Source: The Story of a Marriage
“We think we know what sides we’re on,” she spoke into the silent Theater. “We think we know who we are. We tear life apart into Good or Evil, beautiful or ugly, princess or witch, right or wrong.”
She gazed at the biting fairy boy.
“But what if there are things in between?”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.”
Source: Prey
“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.”
“We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.”
“We think we know who we are: that each day will wake up more or less the same person. But just as rocks are weathered, we are perpetually formed and changed by time and experience until we leave this world with not a single cell we came with.”
Source: A Far-Flung Life
“We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.”
“We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.”
Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic
“We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.”
“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”
Source: A Way of Being
“We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.”
“We think we love someone, but do we truly see them—or only the reflection of what we crave? Sometimes love isn’t a meeting of souls, but a projection of our own shadows, a longing disguised as connection. Perhaps what we call love is often the search for ourselves in someone else’s eyes. So ask yourself: when you feel love, is it them you are drawn to, or the pieces of yourself you’ve yet to meet?”
“We think we need to be ‘positive’ all the time and so we numb down the thoughts and feelings that are deemed ‘negative’ by our external conditioning. It is scary to strip ourselves back and tear down the walls of lies, lack and limits we built our adult lives upon. Yet it is only by courageously searching through the dungeons of our elemental darkness that we can find our supreme light.”
Source: Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth
“We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.”
“We think we only die at the end of our physical life but really, we die every day. Every decision we make that moves us in a new direction is a death. Every emotional release we experience is a death. Every idea we let go of is a death. Every memory we begin to see differently is a death.”
Source: Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity
“We think we’re making a cogent decision about specific circumstances when we’re really just having a pre-programmed reflexive response.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.”
“We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.”
Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.”
“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”
“We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.”
Source: Silver Bells
“We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.”
“We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.”
“We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.”
“We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.”
“We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.”
“We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.”
“We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?”
“We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.”
“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.”
“We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.”
“We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.”
“We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!”
“We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.”
Source: Collected Poems
“We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms: With an Introd
“We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since.”
“We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.”