W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both.”
Source: Under western skies: nature and history in the American West
“We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.”
“We trust security guards—you know, the employment pool that gave us the Son of Sam killer, the assassin of John Lennon, the Hillside Strangler, and more arsonists and rapists than you have time to read about. Has the security industry earned your confidence? Has government earned it? We have a Department of Justice, but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention because that’s what we need and that’s what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.”
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
“We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!”
“We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.”
“We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.”
“We trust those who are not worthy of our trust. We love those who do not deserve our great love, and we share our concerns with those who do not care about us at all.”
“We trust what feels certain, even when it is wrong.”
Source: Dark Facts About Human Nature: 300 Psychological Truths About Manipulation, Emotions, and the Hidden Mind
“We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.”
“We trusted the writers and showrunners [in Westworlds] so much because they're so brilliant and the writing's so incredible. It really was like playing Marco Polo, where you just kind of followed their voice and they would lead you to water.”
“We try, and sometimes we want to give up. Give up on trying to make the world a better place. Tears becomes a visiting friend when all friends who were supposed to be there for us are busy welcoming their own tears... So everyone have this friend visit them, our timing may be different but at one time our tears will visit us.”
“We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.”
“We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.”
Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
“We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.”
“We try new things with open minds.
Mistakes, they come and go.
Attempting what we cannot do
Is how we learn and grow.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.”
“We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.”
“We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.”
“We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.”
“We try our best to spread positive energy. Some reciprocate and some don't. It is better to stay away from people who cannot reciprocate our vibe.”
“We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.”
Source: Burning Bridges
“We try so hard to create God in our image, instead of accepting the reality, that God is everything.”
“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”
Source: Maybe Someday
“We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.”
“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we'd be better off training our youth to be highly observant.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.”
“We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.”
“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”
“We try to approach everything in Life After Hate and Exit USA with compassion. While we really promote approaching things with compassion and empathy, because that's what changed us, it's very difficult knowing there are very virulent, vile people who are focused on furthering the Donald Trump cause. Right now we're dealing with a lot of fake news, misinformation, propaganda, parody. My goal is still trying to reach people through compassionate means, and to get them access to real information. My goal is to share my story and get people out of their bubble, so they can empathize.”
“We try to avoid suffering, but suffering is useful. We need suffering.”
Source: The Art of Communicating
“We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.”
“We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.”
“We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.”
“We try to be open to letting anything change in the moment.”
“We try to be perfect to meet other people's expectations. But making good choices--I think that's on us. We do good because we see value in good.”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah... right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.”
“We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.”
“We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.”
“We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.”
“We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.”
“We try to do right, and we ... we ... they gang up on us, fear and pain and revenge and ... and then we find we’ve done wrong.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.”
Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
“We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways to enact our values-driven positions.”
“We try to equalize before the others have scored.”
“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.”
“We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.”
“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.”
“We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.”
“We try to fight the enemy with yesterday’s anointing for today’s battle. Yesterday’s anointing was good for yesterday—and for yesterday’s victory—but when we try to fight the new battles and new spiritual warfare of today, we learn a hard lesson: There are new levels and new devils.”
Source: Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
“We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.”