W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What happens to us are tiny matters compare to us response to any situation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.”
“What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.”
“What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.”
“What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.”
“What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only." - Claudia Rankine
(cited near the title page of 'An American Marriage")”
“What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only.
- Claudia Rankine
(cited near the title page of 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones)”
“What happens to you happens from you.”
“What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”
“What happens to you here is forever.”
Source: 1984
“What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.”
Source: The Last Kingdom
“What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?”
Source: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.”
“What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.”
“What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.”
“What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.”
“What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.”
“What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.”
“What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?”
“What happens when I click this-- will Facebook know about it?”
Source: Tatvan, a short story collection
“What happens when I love,
you ask, does the world start
making sense?
No, my dear, it does not.
But it won’t matter to you then.”
“What happens when I walk
To the extent of "I"
And then keep walking?
Who am I then?”
Source: Senses
“What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"”
“What happens when it comes to light that in Zen there has always been a large and fundamental role for verbal communication and that, indeed, Zen masters have produced a tremendous volume of writings that originally were based on oral teachings (while the claim for the priority of orality has itself been questioned)? Does this point to a basic contradiction or hypocrisy in Zen, or would the prevalence of literary production mean that our understanding of what constitutes Zen transmission in relation to oral and written discourse must be reconfigured?”
Source: Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?
“What happens when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re alone in a hotel room with the devil’s minibar? Minibar – one; Marissa – zero.”
“What happens when life goes fast
it becomes fatal
What happens when we go slow
We get into rhythm & flow
Don't jet set go... Get set go!
Rhythm optimized... with flow get #Mickeymized”
“What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“What happens when our sanity leaves home?
WARS!”
“What happens when people open their hearts? - They get better.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”
Source: Zeroes
“What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?”
Source: Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
“What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.”
“What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.”
“What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?”
“What happens when the masses file complaints about police officers? The vast majority of people get a short letter back stating the police officers did nothing wrong.”
“What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?”
“What happens when the order of birth and death are disrupted? Stillbirth goes against the way most people think about life and death, and the timeline in which they occur. It's unsettling.
When death takes a life before birth, is it a life? I don't know. I don't think there will ever be an answer that feels certain, or one that is right for everyone. But right here, right now, I wonder, is it really just a single breath of air that creates a life? And the absence of it that makes a death?”
Source: Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
“What happens when the They family meets the Whatevers?”
“what happens when
the war.
no. longer wants. war”
Source: Nejma
“What happens when the world is your oyster and you are allergic to shellfish?”
“What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?”
“What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.”
“What happens when those of us living at the pace of fashion try to insert an awareness of these much larger cycles into our everyday activity?
In other words, what's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year impact of tossing that plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. Unless we're living in utter harmony with nature, thinking in ten-thousand-year spans is an invitation to a nightmarish obsession. It's a potentially burdensome, even paralyzing, state of mind. Each present action becomes a black hole of possibilities and unintended consequences. We must walk through life as if we had traveled in to the past, aware that any change we make—even moving an ashtray two inches to the left—could ripple through time and alter the course of history. It's less of a Long Now than a Short Forever.
This weight on every action—this highly leveraged sense of the moment—hints at another form of present shock that is operating in more ways and places than we may suspect. We'll call this temporal compression overwinding—the effort to squish really big timescales into much smaller or nonexistent ones. It's the effort to make the "now" responsible for the sorts of effects that actually take real time to occur—just like overwinding a watch in the hope that it will gather up more potential energy and run longer than it can.”
Source: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
“What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other’s patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?”
Source: Ashes, Wine and Dust
“What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.”
“What happens when water gets into a crack and it freezes?"
"It expands," I said. "Makes the crack bigger".
"Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life get cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks. You don't know how broken she was or what she was trying to do to fill those cracks. Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”
Source: Just for the Summer
“What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.”