W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.”
“We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.”
“We [vowed religious; nuns, monks] want to be squares, and we want others to be square, also. That's what religious have been doing. They're part of a square society. And let me be quite clear about the fact that liberalism doesn't get you off this hook, because liberals are part of the square society, too. It's better to be a liberal than a conservative, but they're both equally square.”
Source: Thomas Merton on Prayer
“We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.”
“We wait always for something that does not come.”
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
“We wait expectantly for what we hope for.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait”
“We wait for the new year to appear to us like the hopeful sun bringing aspiring light to an eager world”
“We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.”
“We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.”
“We wait patiently to receive want we desire.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.”
“We wait. This man has skills. You don’t build a multi-million-dollar practice by being an idiot. The fact he’s had some hard times does not mean we should underestimate him . . .”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?”
“We wait to see wonders.”
“We wait too long for dowries, for the sweat of strangers, to remember our own perfume.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
“We wait too long to tell the people we love that they are the very reason that we exist. We assume that our wife, child, other family members, and friends understand our love and affection. We assume that people we care about understand our enigmatic idiosyncrasies and willingly accept the shrouded reasons behind our demonstrable oddities. We assume that other people sense that we struggle valiantly in our blackened landscape. We presume that other people comprehend our struggle to glean meaning amongst the ashes spewed from the absurd circumstances that we operate. Sometimes we need to stop and tell the tenderhearted persons whom we care about that we love them and explain that our awkward strangeness is not a rejection of them.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.”
“We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.”
“We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.”
“We waited for our periods with excitement! ...We were delighted by the different silky weaves, the various crotch-conforming shapes, and the promise they held: The future is coming.”
Source: The Rules Do Not Apply
“We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.”
Source: The Listeners and Other Poems
“We wake everyday with soft tunes of Nature, her beats give us an impulse to live, though in agonies, she spreads the light, for our fleeting dreams to be true!”
“We wake from one dream into another dream.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“We wake from our doings in a deep sweat for that they happened in a house without an address, in a street in no town, citizened with people with no names with which to deny them. Their very lack of identity makes them ourselves. For by a street number, by a house, by a name, we cease to accuse ourselves. Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.”
“We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.”
“we wake up and feel deserving
when we should cry for the gift that's been given
again starting at home base but the pitch shall appear
when what we decide is but a chance for a home run
but only a base hit will be much more than plenty
everyday is more than promised, what we do, is again a gift
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“We wake up, breathe, live life often against our wishes and our better judgement. We console ourselves by telling ourselves this is no fault of our own but that doesn’t take away the reality of the pain, the streaming dreams, the utter shock of life, the shattered pieces of survival.”
Source: Cells
“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”
Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life
“We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.”
“We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.”
“We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“We walk all over the earth but it never complains of being a doormat. So we give it the highest title of love, adoration and family: praising it for mothering every species and the whole of all humanity.”
“We walk alone in the wilderness.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”
“We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.”
Source: Friendship
“We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what’s worth pursuing.”
“We walk back to town, and he looks at me seriously and he says, 'Sadie, when you tell this story, say I asked you at the glass flower exhibit. Don't say it was closed.' The myth, the narrative, whatever you want to call it, was always of supreme importance to Sam.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound”
Source: The World as I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin
“We walk by faith, not by sight.”
“We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.”
Source: Fasting
“We walk, fading stars overhead, brine in the air.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“We walk faster when we walk alone.”
“We walk from darkness to light,
From light back to darkness again,
From unknown to known,
Known back to unknown”
Source: Legacy
“We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!”
“We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.”
Source: The seventh seal: a film
“We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath”