W Quotes
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“We were all puppets of someone in a self-perpetuating circle of pollutants, violence and hedonistic escapism.”
Source: Untethered
“We were all put on this earth to be happy and we all deserve to be. Don't let anyone or anything steal your happiness in life!”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”
“We were all reared in a world that concentrated on sin and sinfulness, but I believe that when we come into the eternal world we won’t so much be checked for our failures, but we will be asked whether we honored the possibilities that were placed inside us when we were so carefully fashioned out of the clay.”
“We were all Romans once, I guess.”
“We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.”
Source: The Whispering Swarm
“We were all so repressed in our twenties,” Grandma continues. “Just focused on marrying the first jerk who asked.”
Source: Listen for the Lie
“We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.”
“We were all wild humans before we became civilized in that peculiar process of self-domestication known as the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The word 'wild' is related to the word 'will'; the wild creature is self-willed, autonomous, not domesticated, living by nature's ways, not the laws of human beings.”
Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
“We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida”
“We were almost getting used to playing without fans in the Champions League. Jokes aside though, I think help from our fans will be indispensable for such a big match.”
“We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“We were alone in a world had taken so much from us, struggling to hold onto hope amidst the wreckage that remained.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“We were alone, quiet, but everything we weren’t saying sounded loud, so loud among that sunlight and glass.”
Source: Make Your Way Home: Stories
“We were alone together for three days, we knew no one in the city, I could be anyone, say anything, do anything. I felt like a war prisoner who's suddenly been released by an invading army and told that he can start heading home now, no forms to fill out, no debriefing, no questions asked, no buses, no gate passes, no clean clothes to stand in line for—just start walking.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.”
“We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.”
Source: History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States
“We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well in key areas and, I believe, not through our fault. I will not list all the problems that emerged in the past few years.”
“We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've got a trash bag full of weed!'”
“We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.”
“We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.”
“We were always dead against the war.”
“We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.”
“We were always driven by a gray-haired man in the foster-care agency car. I remember leaving that abusive home, pulling out of the driveway, and seeing sumo Mr. Sanchez’s ice cream truck. He would take us with him when he worked but never gave us any ice cream. Oh, the cruelty! I would have taken real a beating for some ice cream.”
Source: Life of a Bastard
“We were always eating expired things. Milk, bread, biscuits, cake. We forgot about them as they sat around the house and just as they had gone bad, we put them in our mouths. Chocolates I brought back with me from Australia, cheeses in last year's Christmas hamper, juice from the last time someone decided to go grocery shopping. We didn't always realize they tasted funny – not everything curdles and a two-month-old orange can be just as sweet. When we did, it was usually too late. Sometimes it wasn't. We finished what we had started anyway.”
Source: We Were Always Eating Expired Things
“We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“We were always faced with questions like: What about a religious community like Milli Görüs, which is represented by the Islamic Council? And what about the Central Council of Muslims? But we don't wish to exclude people from the start.”
“We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.”
“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.”
“We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.”
“We were always going to say goodbye, weren’t we?”
“Yeah. I think so.”
“I loved you though. I loved you so much.”
A pause.
“I know. I know.
“I loved you too.”
“We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.”
“We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh”
“We were always meant to live in darkness, even with the light. Five billion years from now the sun will stop shining and the darkness will win. It's supposed to win. It's inevitable. Darkness will come and the world will become a cold and sinister place to live in, if it isn't already.”
“We were always meant to wander, gaze, and wonder. But then we built homes and created employers.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“We were always sincere with each other. Even when we were joking around, we were sincere. Come to think of it, so were the tuna. And the skipjack. All living things were sincere, on the whole.”
Source: Strange Weather in Tokyo
“We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum. (I blame this in part for what happened.)”
Source: If We Were Villains
“We were always taught to never play with fire...
Why weren't we warned about a more likely meeting of a narcissist?
This job now falls to victims to educate the world. Spread the word and save a
soul.”
“We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect."”
“We were always waiting for the drop. That tense feeling in the house was an intangible change in the cadence of our life, like the pause in the middle of a serious conversation as you wait for the waiter to clear each plate off the table.”
Source: Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors
“We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people.”
“We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron plant I had seen before.”
Source: Rebecca
“We were an absolute herd.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.”
“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.”
Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography
“We were an oldest sister growing up, and a middle sister being left behind. A youngest sister wanting to belong.”
“We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage.”
Source: Still Life
“We were an us, Charlie. And holy shit, I can see why.”
Source: Never Never
“We were apart for nearly a month,
hearts pouring across thousands of miles,
each conversation a bridge spanning the distance,
until the day it was time to come home.
I was home, but this flight—
home became him.”
Source: In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place