W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We used to be so close, she would say, periodically, apropos of nothing. There was a tinge of wistfulness, but that was all.”
Source: Severance
“We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.”
“We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”
“We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.”
Source: Hood
“We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit”
“We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.”
“We used to chase each other like this. Two kids flirting in a way only a handful of people on Earth could ever match. He with his acrobatics, and me with my ballet.”
Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3
“We used to curse Article 370 (Constituation of India) because it was an obstacle in our path to becoming a Union Territory. But it protected us for 70 years. Our land was absolutely safe. Now Ladakh has been opened to the whole of India. We have no protection.”
“We used to date like forever ago.”
“We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.”
Source: Crank
“We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.”
“We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.”
“We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.”
“We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.”
“We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days
Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.”
“We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.”
“We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.”
“We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.”
“We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.”
Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.”
“We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones.
The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the
cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction.”
Source: Hula
“We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.”
“We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.”
“We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?”
“We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.”
“We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.”
“We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.”
“We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.”
“We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major league that was the beginning of the crushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.”
“We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.”
“We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.”
“We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.”
“We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say "escapism rap", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip.”
“We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.”
“We used to have rhubarb," Olivia said. "I mean, not like you've got rhubarb... Our mother used to warn us about the leaves."
She remembered how she used to pretend they were fuzzy green elephant ears. Every year she used to pull up a stalk and snap it in two and force herself to take a great bite, even though she knew it would screw her tongue and cheeks into knots and tweak her salivary glands until water rushed in her mouth. She felt a rush of water now, just remembering, and had to swallow.
"Used to make strawberry-rhubarb pie," Mrs. Kilkenny said, "and rhubarb-apricot jam, and sour cream rhubarb cake.”
Source: Starting from Scratch
“We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.”
“We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Because if you think this thing we have here isn't fragile you are kidding yourself. This, '- and here Jamison takes a breath and waves his hand around to denote Maida Vale, London, the whole of Western civilization, -'this is fragile.”
Source: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
“We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you.
Silence is an extinct word.
It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
Source: Call Down the Hawk
“We used to hide in
forests of green ribbons,
waiting to be found, now
we seek open spaces to
fill with our voices. See us.
See me. SEE. ME. Here I am.”
Source: Tokyo Dreaming
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?”
“We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.”
“We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.”
Source: Just Kids
“We used to live in a society where if we saw one person struggling in our boat, we'd all stop what we were doing and help that person. We'd all work together as a team. In today's world, we see that person struggling in the boat, feel glad it's not us, and pick them up and throw them in the water. We just don't really care about each other anymore.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”
“We used to make music to top up the charts, now we make music to talk to the hearts.”
“We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”
“We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.”
“We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.”