W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.”
“We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.”
Source: Love
“We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.”
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
“We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author
“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”
Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
“We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.”
Source: Marxism: For and Against
“We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“We turn to the Word when we’re lost, but in our comfort, we can lose sight of its truth.”
“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
“We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'
“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We turned into each other’s best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.”
Source: The Gravity of Birds
“We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.”
Source: Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel
“We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.”
Source: Someone
“We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.”
“We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.”
Source: The Sins of the Fathers
“We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].”
“We turned the pages. It was an amazing production. Interesting, I should imagine, to a psychologist. It set out, with such terrible clarity, the fury of thwarted egoism.”
Source: Crooked House
“We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.”
“We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.”
Source: Wintergirls
“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.”
“We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.”
Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“We twist ourselves into knots convincing people that Islam is peaceful and varied before we realize that, wait a second, you can be a Muslim while also recognizing that Islam doesn't even explain half of your behaviors!”
“We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]”
“We two
are
emotions and moments
only we know about,
not
quotable instances.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“We two are to ourselves a crowd.”
“WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love:
“We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.”
Source: Possession: A Romance
“We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.”
“We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.”
“We typically look at our family and decide either we want to be just like them or vow we'll never do things the way they did. These expectations, spoken, become a part of us.”
Source: Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage
“We typically make movies that are geared towards 18-year-olds. The people who pay and go to movies more than two or three times are usually under 22, so I get how it works. I don't really want 18-year-old boys to find me that attractive, that kind of would creep me out at this stage.”
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consumerism needs children who do not stay attached to their toys for very long and learn to expect the next round of presents as soon as possible. When consumerism succeeds, our attachments are shallow, easily broken, so we can move on to the next thing we're supposed to get. Being a good consumer means desiring new things, not cherishing old ones. And the new things you're supposed to desire are not always material things. Spirituality is now a consumerist enterprise, too.”
Source: Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don't Have to Do
“We typically see ourselves as more benign than we are, and are quicker to attribute malign motives to potential adversaries”
Source: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
“We … uh … we were having a disagreement.”
“I can see that. I have been very patient with all of this, Jesper, but I am at my limit. I want you down here before I count ten or I will tan your hide so you don’t sit for two weeks.”
Colm’s head vanished back down the stairs. The silence stretched.
Then Nina giggled. “You are in so much trouble.”
Jesper scowled. “Matthias, Nina let Cornelis Smeet grope her bottom.”
Nina stopped laughing. “I am going to turn your teeth inside out.”
“That is physically impossible.”
“I just raised the dead. Do you really want to argue with me?”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.”
“We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.”
“We umble ones have got eyes, mostly speaking - and we look out of 'em.”
Source: David Copperfield
“We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.”
“We underestimate the depths of glory that has our names written on it.”
“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”
“We underestimate the power of choice, our power to suddenly wake up one day bored of our own bullshit and decide to do things differently.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.”
“We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We don't understand someone who is constantly right, who is only felled by Kryptonite. Chuck Klosterman had a pretty great book about this whole thing - I Wear The Black Hat - that came out last year and which I greatly enjoyed.”