W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We tried not to age, but time had its rage.”
“We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.”
Source: White Oleander
“We tried not to look at each other for a minute, smiling each time we did. Except for the tiny scars on her wrists, she seemed perfect to me, and so I loved the scars, because they meant that I could save her from something, and save myself”
Source: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”
Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
“We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.”
“We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.”
“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.”
“We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't like [ Emilio Estevez] sneakers and they didn't like my boots. This was 1983 or '84, so it was ridiculous. We ended up at a jazz club, where you go downstairs and there's a very cool place.”
“We tried the golden age's of lands, what of all the other soil, water and air, with all that lives in each, who wants a bit of gold too.
Who knows when, does Winter end.”
“We tried the golden age's of lands, what of all the other soil, water and air, with all that lives in each, who wants a bit of gold too.
Who knows when does winter ends.”
“We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.”
Source: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
“We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.”
“We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not successful. It did not become the Matt & Ben show, but it taught me what I like to do as an actor and what I like to do comedically.”
“We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.”
“We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.”
“We tried to educate ourselves. I would invite the girls to my rooms, and we took turns reading poetry in English to improve our understanding of the language. One of our favorites was Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," and another . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . .
"Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many, they are few!”
Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
“We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.”
“We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear our masks and play our roles
And teach each other how to love.”
Source: JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
“We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.”
“We tried to make sure Adam didn’t die in vain.
We have always said, if his song is to continue then we must do the singing.”
“We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.”
“We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.”
Source: Ben Shahn
“We tried to pretend war wasn't going to happen.
Though they began building their houses all around us
and demanding more.
They started teaching our children their god's story,
A story in which we'd always be slaves.”
Source: An American Sunrise
“We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.”
Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
“We tried to run," Louise Weasel Bear said, "but they shot us like we were a buffalo. I know there are some good white people, but the soldiers must be mean to shoot children and women. Indian soldiers would not do that to white children.”
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.”
“We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.”
“We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.”
“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
“We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.”
Source: The Letters of William Hazlitt
“We triggered a discussion in society about the connection between church and state as well as our justice system. Putin is the leader, the icon and the guarantor of an authoritarian system that crushes Kremlin critics along with the help of the secret police and ever changing methods and laws.”
“We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.”
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
Source: Essays
“We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.”
“We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.”
“We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.”
“We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.”
Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris
“We truly to gravitate toward what we contemplate, and it affects every area of our life.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“We truly win not by conquering others,
but by conquering our own fears and doubts.”
“We trust and believe in what we love.”
“We trust and rely on God at all times.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“We trust God to teach us the lessons of this time.”
“We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.”
“We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.”
Source: Dickinson
“We trust many things that can't be trusted because at some fundamentally primal level we desperately wish that there was, so we settle for what we cannot when right in front of us there's a God that we can.”
“We trust nature to know what it is doing, but we are not nearly so kind, understanding and trusting of our own rhythms and cycles. It's ridiculous that we are so hard on ourselves. Can we not trust that the very same forces that created the rhythms and cycles of nature created our own? Of course we can. We often don't, but we can, if we remember.”
Source: The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
“We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.”