W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“We wanted to touch them with our action.”
“We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.”
“We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.”
“We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.”
“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”
Source: Just Kids
“We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”
“We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress and amaze us. Come home, Bod.”
“We warily sipped ‘fresh’ buffalo milk in a Krishna temple. We travelled into the Himalayas until, at a height of two kilometres above sea level where we found ourselves surrounded by men as hard and tough as the mountains that bred them. We negotiated a price of 100 rupees for one of these men to carry our two heaviest bags the 15-minute walk to the hotel with nothing more than rope and a forehead strap. I paid him 300 rupees and his face lit up! We watched the morning mist clear to reveal views of the green Doon Valley and the distant white-capped Himalayan peaks. We rode an elephant up to the Amber Fort of Jaipur, and the next day we painted, washed and fed unpeeled bananas to another elephant, marvelling at her gentle nature as we placed the bananas on her huge bubble-gum coloured tongue.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“we warm our tea with
worry and we wonder if
there ever was and ever
could be a home with
no worry chewing through
the attic”
“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.”
“We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.”
“We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up a lot of doors for other artists to feel free to do that type of stuff.”
“We was girls together”
Source: Sula
“We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.”
“We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.”
Source: The Sacrifice (The Enemy Book 4)
“We was just kids, we did kid stuff. And we didn’t have things to do like people in the city. We couldn’t catch the bus to the beach or the movies or hang out in big shopping malls. We had to ride everywhere or shanks it. Go for a milkshake at the roadhouse, check out the tip. Because there was no KFC or Subway. We’d walk along the highway looking for eagle feathers.”
Source: The Shepherd's Hut
“We was just young guys who wanted to change. We got tired of doin' this same everyday bullshit that we was doin', and we all felt like we had dreams o' bein' a big star. You know, as far as with myself, I never really took it that serious as bein' a star. I only took it that serious as bein' a emcee, which is two different things. You know what I mean?”
“We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.”
“We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.”
“We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other in the same cave, even though they're a long way from what you'd call the best of friends.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“We washed her body, chanted, and stayed to witness the funeral director shrouding her and whisking her down the hall. I thought of the Zen teaching that talks about how all we need to do is allow ourselves and the world to change. Easy to say, I thought. And yet, here I was in the midst of my experience of fullness of the pain, grief, love, and joy of my grandma’s death. Everything did change.
Everything I teach now I learned from my relationship with Mimi. Being deeply in relationship changes the world. I didn’t know then that my life would pivot to teaching others and to being with many, many Mimis.”
Source: Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
“We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.”
“We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.”
“We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.”
“We waste a lot of time building an image we want the world to see instead of taking responsibility for breaking through the limits we create in our own heads and becoming who we were made to be”
Source: Own Your Everyday: Overcome the Pressure to Prove and Show Up for What You're Made to Do
“We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.”
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“We waste time, so you don't have to.”
“We waste too much energy worrying about what is to come. We are to, instead, put that energy into powering the present. Only then will we get to where we want to be.”
“We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.”
“We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.”
Source: Prose and poetry
“We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“We watch her walk into the spotlight she’s been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it’s about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it’s about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.”
Source: A Little Wanting Song
“We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.”
“We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.”
“We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.”
“We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.”
“We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.”
“We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.”
Source: The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti
“We watched Alex walking away.
"What just happened?" I asked him.
There are no words for it in sign language, he said.”
Source: Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead
“We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.”
“We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.”
Source: Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
“We watched hopelessly as distraction of people was coming to pass,the historians ready with their pen and paper writing who is right and who is wrong, little huma ity we had was all gone,we were all left standing holding the torch of shame that had no flame of virtue left to light the way, no prayers in any language or religion had saved the day, the evil continued in the name of self defence, in the name of civilised and uncevilised and the civilised hoisted their flag of victory for killing woman and children by the thousands and the wind carried their voices across the globe as we hang our heads in shame”
“We watched the light draw through the sky and a barn owl on her final patrol who broke up the dawn, a lone swimmer in an empty sea.”
Source: All the Birds, Singing