W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.”
“We went to the cemetery that day, resolved to confirm once and for all the truth of the story that great-great-grandmother Nicolasa was buried alongside Gregorio the priest.”
Source: Dejarás la tierra
“We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha took care of that problem right away. "So you belong to Jasmine," he said in his melancholy voice. It somehow delivered Vayl his deepest condolences without bearing a trace of malice toward me.”
“We went to the moon and discovered Earth.”
“We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.”
Source: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
“We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.”
“We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.”
“We went west willingly--because we had to.”
“We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.”
“We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.”
Source: Men of the New Testament
“We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.”
“We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't know how long it took us, but I would just show up at Alison's [McGhee] office. She would type and we'd just kick it back and forth. Writing is so scary for me, such a lonely endeavor, and it became a wonderful thing to show up and have somebody else go through it with me. It was actually a wonderful experience.”
“We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.”
“We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.”
“We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.”
Source: Oh Dear Silvia
“We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically- tragically- our creation's complexity had now far outstripped our brains' ability to manage it.”
Source: Upgrade
“We were a chasseur, initiate, Lyon prince, and blood witch walking into Chateu Le Blanc blind.”
Source: Serpent & Dove
“We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.”
“We were a crafthouse full of champion women liars who drew men liars as visitors.”
Source: Glass Girl
“We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.”
Source: The Age of Miracles
“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”
“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”
“We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.”
“We were a galaxy exploding into a million pieces, creating a whole new world, as we crashed against each other on the soft surface of his mattress, a cloud in the darkness, our bodies finally falling together like rain.”
Source: Dear Rockstar
“We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.”
“We were a perfect match. Maybe that's why we burnt out.”
“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.”
“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no healing. I would simply adjust myself to a new and severely depleted reality. The world would come to an end, as it always does, one world at a time.”
“We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.”
“We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.”
“We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.”
“We were a single, devastating force, two halves of a primordial power, our bond forged in the fires of creation and tempered in the blood of unending war.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.”
“We were a song never given an ending,
a melody caught mid-breath,
hands frozen above the keys,
waiting for a resolution
that never arrived.”
Source: Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind
“We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'”
“We were a total mess. We'd been up all night. We smelled of ectoplasm, salt, and fear. We looked at one another, and grinned.
Then we began laughing.”
Source: The Hollow Boy
“We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.”
“We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.”
“We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.”
“We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is groundbreaking. And together with the sustainable development goals of the agenda 2030 for the whole world, this is indeed a sea change, I think, that we see here, and, step-by-step, it will be implemented.”
“We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.”
“We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.”
“We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project [Anthropoid], and Sean [Ellis] was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning.”
“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
“We were about to make love in the same bed I shared with my husband, and the extent of our immorality was weighing in on both of us, but not enough to stop us.”
Source: Dem Country Girls Love Hard: Everybody Starts Off With A Clean Slate
“We were absolutely destined to meet your hot sister”
“We were advised to drink plenty of fluids during our very high altitude summit work days to offset altitude sickness.”
“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food, and who were organizing themselves into angry tribes recognizable to one another by bumper stickers.”
Source: The Humanity Project