W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.”
“We were so quick to embrace new technology that enabled us to make plastic bottles.
It was faster!
It was cheaper!
It was a heathier alternative to recycling bottles.
The plastic drinking bottle had arrived.
But how many companies make plastic bottles?
How many did research to find out the heath pros and cons?
How many buried their findings so as to maximize profits?
Today microplastics are everywhere. In the oceans; in the air; in the food chains and in us.
There is nowhere where they aren't on this planet of ours and they even inhabit our blood streams.
Scary? It should be!
Because so much isn't known about the long term effects of microplastics on living organisms and if they really pose a serious threat.
The companies that make the bottles and all the plastics know some of the answers, but if we want them to start telling the truth, then we will need to start asking more serious and searching questions before we all become a plastic society in a plastic world.”
“We were so raw that we could be seduced by civility.”
Source: Shadowland
“We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.”
“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.”
“We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.”
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.”
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
“We were somewhere in between, somewhere I could see the light and the dark. Somewhere I could see the world when all I saw was you.”
“We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.”
“We were specks, bits of glass and dust. We were as numerous as the sands that lined the strand, one unrecognizable from the other. We were born; we lived; we died. And the cycle continued endlessly on. So many lives lived. And when we died, we simply vanished. A few generations would go by. And no one would know we even were. No one would remember the color of our eyes or the passion that raged inside us. Eventually, we all became stones in the grass, moss-covered monuments, and sometimes . . . not even that.”
Source: What the Wind Knows
“We were standing by the window, the mist pressed and broke in waves against the panes—and I felt that behind it lurked again the secret, the hidden, the past things, the damp
days of horror, the desolation, the filth, the shreds of a waste life, the perplexity, the misguided frittering away of strength in an aimless existence; but here, before me in the shadow, disconcertingly near, the quiet breathing, the unseizable present—warmth, clear living—I must hold it, I must win it.”
Source: Three Comrades
“We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.”
Source: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
“We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.”
“We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.”
“We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.”
“We were still confined to that corner. More and more people joined us, some black and some white. On the second day, we awoke to learn that somebody must have told Martin Luther King that things were getting out of hand in Montgomery, because rumor had it that he left the line of march from Selma to join us in the hood. Despite myself, I was thrilled at the prospect of marching with King. I knew this was SNCC turf, and I was now with SNCC, but how can you not be thrilled with the prospect of being so close to the big man himself?”
Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
“We were still fighting to hold on to what we had, whether language (Gaelic) or culture (Acadian), the transfer payments from Ottawa which accounted for a disproportionate percentage of provincial revenues, or the sweet rural life, which more Nova Scotians enjoyed than anywhere else in Canada.”
Source: The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia
“We were still hungry, and decided to stop at a nondescript seaside restaurant, where we ate grilled sardines and planks of meaty, snow-white monkfish drizzled in olive oil and salt, with a few boiled potatoes and a carafe of rosé. The fish had been out of the sea for less than two hours, the waiter told us, and why would he lie? The sea was right there next to us. I'm not going to say that the fish and the potatoes and the wine were so much better than what we'd eaten at El Bulli, but it was all quite good, and a relief to sit in a chair, use a fork, see the charred skin, and pick out the bones.”
Source: Care and Feeding
“We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes.”
Source: The Whale Road
“We were still twirling around the tiny parking lot when the neighbors
screamed 'Happy New Year'. Unfortunately we weren't sober enough to
realize that was our cue to call it a night. Josh had a new beer in his hands,
Danny was eating the last hot dog and Darren and I were still dancing
when the cops showed up.”
Source: For Danny
“We were straightfacedly told that, to understand the Phenomenology and the Encyclopædia, we had to go back to Abraham, Isaac, and the desert. Today it is all too obvious this sort of exegesis was merely a manoeuvre.”
Source: The spectre of Hegel: early writings
“We were strange in love
her and I
too wild to last
too rare to die.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“We were strangers and then we became friends. Now we both find that we were better off as strangers.”
“We were strangers under the same roof. We were perfect pretenders in the stage of the world.”
Source: Fourteen Urban Folklore
“We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...”
“We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition.”
Source: Admiring Silence
“We were strong separately, but when we were together, we were impenetrable.”
Source: Evil
“we were students; you read my story in the threshold. you said to your roommate, 'this woman has something. i'm going to meet her.' you told him. 'and if she's anything like her writing, i'm going to marry her.' wasn't i? wasn't i?”
Source: Shirley
“We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.”
“We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.”
“We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.”
“We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.”
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.”
Source: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
“We were supposed to be enemies, Americans and Iraqi’s, Muslims and Christians, newer immigrants and historical immigrants. But here we were, huddled around the table together, with candle lights flickering off cheeks and smiling eyes.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“We were supposed to be heroes.”
“There’s no such thing as heroes.”
Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“We were supposed to be relaxed, not thinking it could be a trap.
But I'll tell you something. If Visser Three thought for certain that he could catch the "Andalite Bandits," as he thought of us, he wouldn't let the public get in his way. He wouldn't need to send in the Hork-Bajir. He could machine-gun the place using human-Controllers.
That would have made the news, but no one would have thought it was all that strange. I guess that says something about the condition of the human race, with or without aliens.”
Source: The Solution
“We were supposed to be walking forward, but we were actually drifting back into time.”
“We were supposed to do this together. We were supposed to live out our lives together.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.”
“We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.”
“We were surprised, shocked really, to discover the type of leadership required for turning a good company into a great one. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.”
“We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.”
“We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.”
“We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.”
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
“We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.”
“We were talking about life and relationships. Then she asked me "What's your current status?"
I smiled and said "Wanderer!"
And she couldn't stop smiling.”
“We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.”