W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.”
Source: Black Like Me
“We've reached that point in the night when we're slinging more drinks than tacos, and the Frankenstein monsters on our menu- which I'd created specifically for the inebriated- are flooding the line. There's the fried egg pork carnitas perfect for a pounding headache, and the barbacoa with bacon and refried beans that soaks up alcohol like a sponge. I watch as one of the waitresses carries out a stack of corn tortillas filled with tripas and potatoes smothered in queso blanco- the holy grail of hangover remedies.”
Source: Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
“we've reached utopia and it sucks”
“We’ve read our own myths into the world.”
Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
“We’ve resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven’t been
intimate enough for you to call me by my first name?” Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. “Perhaps I should rectify that.”
Source: A Beautiful Bounty
“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into them. They in turn perpetuate it by passing the same (if not more) onto their's. We raise slaves, not independent thinkers.”
“We've run out of metaphors for saying that grief never ends, so we'll just say it - grief never ends. It isn't something you go through; it's something that becomes a part of you.”
Source: What's Your Grief?: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss
“We’ve run out of our childhood. We’ve nowhere worthwhile to go now.”
“We‘ve sacrificed silence - the condition of not being addressed. And just as clean air makes it possible to breathe, silence makes it possible to think.”
“We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that.”
Source: Devil's Brood
“We’ve scrambled for our lives,” she said softly. “Now we have to scramble for our world.”
Source: Midnight Beauties
“We’ve searched all of the homes and carried the food to Ralph’s,” Sam continued. “The problem is that all the fruit and veggies spoiled while we were all filling up on chips and cookies. The meat all rotted. People were stupid and careless, and there’s nothing we can do about that now.” Sam swallowed the bitterness he felt, the anger he felt at his own foolishness. “But we have food sitting out in the fields. Maybe not the food we’d like, but enough to carry us for months—many months—if we bring it in before it rots and the birds eat it.”
“Maybe we’ll get rescued, and we won’t have to worry,” another voice said.
“Maybe we’ll learn to live on air,” Astrid muttered under her breath but loudly enough to be heard by at least a few.
“Why don’t you go get our food back from Drake and the chuds up there?”
It was Zil. He accepted a congratulatory slap on the back from a creepy kid named Antoine, part of Zil’s little posse.
“Because it would mean getting some kids killed,” Sam said bluntly. “We’d be lucky to rescue any of the food, and we’d end up digging more graves in the plaza. And it wouldn’t solve our problem, anyway.”
Source: Hunger
“We've seen it over and over throughout history, it isn't a conspiracy theory anymore that the truly great ones get taken out. That's a trend, but when will people realize that after new world order, worldwide communism will take place.”
“We’ve since learned to the contrary that stress can help people grow, just as stressing a muscle by lifting weights helps it get stronger. I think exceptional people have always intuitively understood this. They’ve understood that they need tough competition to become the best players they can be.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“We’ve sourced something field-expedient,” Ash began, “from what little’s available there…She’s a surprisingly advanced product of the early militarization of machine intelligence…They saw it as cloning complexly specific skill sets.” █
Netherton nodded, hoping his eyes weren’t visibly glazing. █
“There were, for instance, individuals adroit at managing what were termed competitive control areas…complexly volatile environments, where you might easily lose prized field operators.”
Source: Agency
“We've spend our whole lives trying to fill Emily's shoes, feeling crushed by her shadow, trying to prove to Mom and Dad that we are good enough too.”
Source: Not Quite Dead Yet
“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.”
“We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? I’ve heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don’t, that’s sure!”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“We’ve stayed so far away from home for so long.
We’ve forgotten the road that takes us home.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“We’ve taken everything from her, brother,” Maven murmurs, drawing close. “Surely we can give her this?”
And then slowly, reluctantly, Cal nods and waves me into his room. Dizzy with excitement, I hurry inside, almost hopping from foot to foot.
I’m going home.
Maven lingers at the door, his smile fading a little when I leave his side. “You’re not coming.” It isn’t a question.
He shakes his head. “You’ll have enough to worry about without me tagging along.”
I don’t have to be a genius to see the truth in his words. But just because he isn’t coming doesn’t mean I will forget what he’s done for me already. Without thinking, I throw my arms around Maven. He doesn’t respond for a second, but slowly lets an arm drop around my shoulders. When I pull back, a silver blush paints his cheeks. I can feel my own blood run hot beneath my skin, pounding in my ears.”
Source: Red Queen
“We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7”
“We've talked, and alot has been said ,but no words were uttered at all”
“We've taught plenty of younglings the basics," Cassian countered. Azriel shook his head, shadows twinning around his wrists. "It's not the same. When you are older, the fears, the mental blocks... it's different.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“We've the whole wide world out there waiting for us, and we've forever to make the most've it. And that's the thing: enjoyin' life. Not livin' death, or anything stupid like that.
What've we got to fear except the sun?”
Source: Preacher, Volume 5: Dixie Fried
“We've wandered too far from civilization, boys. The folk that need me don't trust me, and the ones that trust me can't afford me.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.”
“We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.”
“We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.”
Source: The Rosicrucian Mysteries
“We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.”
“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.”
“We very much try to avoid the use of the phrase AI. It has good PR traction; however, we do not meet the criteria for common parlance, nor does the phrase carry any substantive meaning. In most cases, AI serves as a type of catch-all for anything with machine learning capabilities. We prefer the term MIT came up with in 2018 of Ei, meaning “Extended Intelligence.”
Source: Adventures With A.I. Age of Discovery
“We very often confuse personality with leadership.”
“We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue. And that means we pass up opportunities to make a tremendous difference.”
Source: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
“We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.”
“We victims of narcissist abuse are much stronger than we know. We will heal by learning and then by sharing new hope to the next generation of survivors.”
“We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.”
“We view ‘fact’ as contingent upon its ability to support our facts.”
“We view men’s gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing problems or trespassing some invisible line — which changes location from church to church, sometimes even within the same denomination.”
Source: Lost Women of the Bible: Finding Strength & Significance through Their Stories
“We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.”
“We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.”
“We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.”
Source: The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863
“We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.”
“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.”
“We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.”
Source: Safety pins: and other essays
“We visited Gwangjang Market in one of Seoul's oldest neighborhoods, squeezing past crowds of people threading through its covered alleys, a natural maze spontaneously joined and splintered over a century of accretion. We passed busy ajummas in aprons and rubber kitchen gloves tossing knife-cut noodles in colossal, bubbling pots for kalguksu, grabbing fistfuls of colorful namul from overbrimming bowls for bibimbap, standing over gurgling pools of hot oil, armed with metal spatulas in either hand, flipping the crispy sides of stone-milled soybean pancakes. Metal containers full of jeotgal, salt-fermented seafood banchan, affectionally known as rice thieves, because their intense, salty flavor cries out for starchy, neutral balance; raw, pregnant crabs, floating belly up in soy sauce to show off the unctuous roe protruding out from beneath their shells; millions of minuscule peach-colored krill used for making kimchi or finishing hot soup with rice; and my family's favorite, crimson sacks of pollack roe smothered in gochugaru, myeongnanjeot.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grand––quite different from my idea of a lodging for exploited peasants, as I had expected it to be. A caption underneath an enormous photograph of Mao's mother said that she had been a very kind person and, because her family was relatively well off, had often given food to the poor. So our Great Leader's parents had been rich peasants! But rich peasants were class enemies! Why were Chairman Mao's parents heroes when other class enemies were objects of hate? The question frightened me so much that I immediately suppressed it.”
Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.”
“We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.”
“We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.”