W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We thought we were together, climbing the same mountain,
But you were only climbing yours,
I was only climbing mine
I stepped on your hands to get higher,
you clawed at my back to get higher
And though you fell, I got higher,
You fell... I got higher
I wish it was me that fell instead of you
I wish my wishes weren't lies and could be true,
you were sacrificed, I got higher.
In this twisted world down is up and wrong is right,
as I climb higher,
Down towards hell, I'm ever deeper,
I'm losing my sight, my will to fight
I'm glad you fell,
in the fall you've gone higher.
You've gone higher”
“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.”
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”
“We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in.”
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
Source: Selected poems
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”
Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
“We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.”
“We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.”
“We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.”
“We threw passes enough that we were prime to catch them and get up to speed. I think we will be fine there.”
“We thrive in hardships by God’s grace.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.”
“We thrive on our sense of belonging to families, neighbourhoods and all kinds of groups and communities. We utterly depend upon our social connections for our emotional and physical security, for our sense of well-being, being accepted and taken seriously. [p57]”
Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
“We thrive with thankfulness.”
“We, through the cerebral cortex, add the consciousness, spirit and rationality, to this dolphin brained human body avatar. We control our destiny and this body can become a servant of our conscious will, once we learn to communicate fully with it. We are called to bridge the gap between our conscious mind and the subconscious mind.”
Source: Subconscious Mind Power
“We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.”
Source: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner
“We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.”
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”
Source: The Hours
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”
Source: The Hours: A Novel
“We throw stones though we live in glass houses,
We talk shit like its a cross to bare.
You're only relevant 'til you get older.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”
“We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.”
“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”
Source: On Social Structure and Science
“We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in science, and its important consequences for politics and the global economy-is based on ice core studies that provided a false picture of the atmospheric CO2 levels.”
“We thus have three levels of antagonism: the Two are never two, the One is never one, the Nothing is never nothing. Sinthome—the signifier of the barred Other—registers the antagonism of the Two, their non-relationship. The object a registers the antagonism of the One, its inability to be one. $ registers the antagonism of Nothing, its inability to be the Void at peace with itself, to annul all struggles. The position of Wisdom is that the Void brings ultimate peace, a state in which all differences are obliterated; the position of dialectical materialism is that there is no peace even in the Void.”
Source: Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
“We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.”
Source: Stories of Gods and Heroes
“We thus see that the price of a commodity is indeed determined by its cost of production, but in such wise that the periods in which the price of these commodities rises above the cost of production are balanced by the periods in which it sinks below the cost of production, and vice versa. Of course this does not hold good for a single given product of an industry, but only for that branch of industry. So also it does not hold good for an individual manufacturer, but only for the whole class of manufacturers.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“We tie ourselves down with the ropes of fear and doubt, and still dare to wonder why we cannot fly.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.”
“We tie ribbons to remember what words can’t hold.”
“We till shadowed days are done,
We must weep and sing
Duty's conscious wrong,
The Devil in the clock”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas
“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.”
“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”
Source: On the Road
“We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.”
“We tire differently if we love or love not.”
Source: The Curfew
“We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.”
“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
“We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.”
Source: Ready Player One
“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”
“We told our goodbyes.
But our hearts were late to say their goodbyes.
When the hasty destiny wanted to hurt us
I discovered a solution for the pain.
A confession… My words,
That you asked me for when I didn't love you yet
And you promised to make me fall in love someday.
You took away my sadness with colors.
You drew me in with the nobility of your heart.
By your side, my hope grew.
And Blindly!!
I surrendered, although my mind opposed it. I surrendered!! I hid my love.
But you imploded in every corner of my heart.
Our goodbye wasn't enough.
Enough to say goodbye
And if destiny couldn't predict it
You taught me a solution for the pain
Blindly…
Yes, I surrendered, although my heart opposed
Blindly, I surrendered!!”
“We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.”
“We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.”
“We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.”
“We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.”
“We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.”
“We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.”
“We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.”
“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)