W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We were never meant to go it alone.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“We were never meant to live in a world where everything is owned and nothing is shared.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“We were never meant to live under the tyranny of fear and grief. -Dalia”
Source: Before the King: Joanna's Story
“We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car.”
“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”
“We were never supposed to be in love; for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.”
“We were never to think. This orange is mine. I am giving you what is mine. We were to think, This orange is ours. We're sharing what's ours.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.”
“We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.”
Source: The Caves Of Steel & The Rest Of The Robots
“We were never young.”
Source: Brown: Poems
“We were nine, and therefore invincible.”
Source: Among the Beasts & Briars
“We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.”
“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
Source: We Are Okay
“We were not a band that typically would say, "Hello, Whatever Town!"”
“We were not a crew; we were only here at the same time.”
Source: Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea
“We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.”
Source: The Moonstone
“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
Source: Naked
“We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.”
“We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.”
“We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.”
Source: The Book Class
“We were not aware of how autonomous cars could go wrong. But once the science behind the technology is implemented in real life, the issues with it became an engineering problem. Slowly, we learn about all the things that could go wrong.”
“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”
“We were not born into this life knowing
that we were going to become
rich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.
But one thing that I know is that
the human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,
greatness is when you push
yourself above the odds.”
“We were not born just to increase the GDP of our nation. We were born to live a purposeful, meaningful, and fulfilling life.”
Source: HOW TO LIVE LIFE? SBOP LIVING - FOR LIFE AFTER 55/60
“we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!”
Source: Religion, Philosophy and life: the reasons behind action
“We were not born to fight, but our cradles were built from struggles and hardship. Pens, swords, sticks—weapons shoved into our fists as soon as we’re old enough to grasp them. So we fight because the world will cut our throats otherwise. We fight, because we won’t go down without one.”
Source: We Free the Stars
“We were not born to sue, but to command.”
“We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do”
“We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.”
“We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed of my child. It's as if I was an unwilling accomplice to the kidnapping of my own child. So you have to live with the trauma of losing your child and then you have to live with the trauma of knowing you didn't stop it. How do you do that?”
Source: The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
“We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.”
Source: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
“We were not designed to be dominated.”
“We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn’t a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.”
“We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.”
“We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.”
“We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.”
“We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.”
“We were not looking for change but the pathway to change.”
“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“We were not made to eternally weep.”
“We were not making love, we did not even kiss, but the inexplicable intimacy we shared left us wordlessly and hopelessly locked into each other's gaze.”
“We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“We were not meant to be ordinary but extraordinary people.”
“We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.”
Source: The Unseen Friend
“We were not mentally prepared for this option. It was overwhelming. What do we tell our boys, how will they react? You have a hundred thoughts racing through your head, and they are all maneuvering for the ability to create clarity amidst the confusion, but they cannot.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“We were not of this world—
Dancing with fireflies
we lit up the night sky
embracing the darkness and light within each other.
We tasted of salt and earth and flesh.
He dissolved in me,
while I melted with him.
Together, he and I became intensity,
perfect insanity.
Ethereal, eternal, omnipotent, limitless—
We loved beyond this world.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.”
“We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.”