W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.”
Source: The Four Loves
“We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.”
“We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.”
“We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“We were made to be distracted by life, by story.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“we were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice.”
“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition
“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”
Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.”
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”
“We were made to live for ever. Something deep inside us calls out for what was lost, so we keep reaching for it, keep trying to find that perfection our souls long for. So it's not wrong to long for perfection; it's just wrong to expect it on earth. It isn't found here.”
Source: Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.”
“We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.”
“We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.”
“We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.”
“We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“We were massive underdogs at the beginning of the competition and I'll put my hands up say and I didn't think we were going to go all the way. But, as you can see, we are never beaten. The manager told us to keep our chins up, to try and score early in the second half and give some respect for the fans. The first goal gave us a bit of belief. The supporters have saved up for weeks and months to come here. I am so happy to lift the cup for the fans.”
“We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.”
Source: Night ; Dawn ; Day
“We were meant to be together.”
“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.”
“We were meant to find each other here, Celes,” he agrees. “I can feel it. Like we’ve lived a lifetime together, knowing each other, loving each other. Time can’t separate us.”, FADE by Kailin Gow”
“We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.”
Source: Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success
“We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.”
“We were meant to live for so much more.”
“We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.”
“We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”
Source: Empress Orchid
“We were meat to be bought and sold. Speaking Arabic made me a curious and unusual product. I didn’t want to be special. I didn’t want them to be curious about me.”
Source: And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
“We were mighty short of infielders in those days”
“We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.”
Source: Light Years
“We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.”
“We were most creative when our back was against the wall.”
“We were mothered out of the substance of this planet. Her elements, her periodicities, her gravitational embrace, her subtle vibrations still mingle in our nature, worked a billion years down into the textures of life and mind. Logically, the individual human being is a living organic system that exists as part of the larger living organic system that we call the biosphere, or Earth.”
Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
“We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We were murdered so often, I started believing Black bodies made better fertilizer.”
“We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.”
“We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him; how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have.”
Source: Black Like Me
“We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.”
“We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.”
“We were never carefree. Cares just change over the years.”
Source: The Ultimate Religion
“We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.”
“We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.”
“We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.”
“we were never here nor there, never allowed to be happy or allowed to be sad.
Darkness and light, black and white, good and evil. Memories and new experiences were polar opposites requiring the same host: you.”
Source: Watch You Die
“We were never just friends, were we?’
I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t feel like the end of the world? When she wasn’t untangling my life? When we weren’t tangled together?
‘No,’ I said. ‘I guess we were never just.”
Source: If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
“We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.”
“We were never meant to be baby, we just happened”
“We were never meant to be like each other. Instead, we’re perfectly designed to complement one another.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“We were never meant to be together.
Stars never aligned for us, they always
diverged our paths from each other.
Too close, but never enough.
Minute hands were never slow enough
for us to catch up, but fast enough we’re
slipping from its grasp.
We were never meant to be together, but
that doesn’t mean I love you any less.”
Source: Fragmented Bliss
“We were never meant to dismember our selfhoods. My face is my soul is my blood is my glory. When we neglect the physical, it inevitably suffocates the image of a God who ate, slept, cried, bled, grew, and healed.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us." He meets my gaze. "No matter how it has wronged us.”
Source: The Midnight Star