W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What you call law is essentially the need of an uncivilized and unfree society. A truly civilized and free society needs no law.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.”
“What you call love does not sound very beautiful.”
“What you call love does not sound very beautiful. Think of the way we adore the Throne. That adoration makes us the best version of ourselves. We feel encouraged to go further with or instincts, not to change ourselves for love. If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.”
“What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.”
Source: The First Codex
“What you call man is time.”
“What you call mistakes and failures are valuable experiences.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“What you call pride, I call courage.”
Source: The Serpent King
“What you call the personality is an inflexible accumulation of emotive images. The real personality appears in your stillness only when you need it and disappears when the situation no longer calls for it. It is flexible without a periphery. It is multidimensional, free from psychological interference. When you are called upon to be a mother, a father, a lover, a student, a teacher, a fighter, you are these temporarily, but they do not remain as a state you identify with. Then there is love, there is affection without affectivity.”
Source: Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest
“What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.”
“What you call types of mind are only mental ages.”
Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE
“What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.”
Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories
“What you can become depends upon what you can overcome.”
“What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“What you can become you are already.”
“What you can control is how you choose to learn from it. What actions you will take because of it."
"Oh, so it's take it or leave it. I'll throw some shit in your face and it's up to you to decide which hand you're going to wipe it off with? That's not choice!”
Source: Aroha
“What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It’s simple!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“What you can do is a matter of what you will do.”
“What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.”
“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.”
“What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.”
“What you can do, or think you can, begin it.”
“What you can give to the world is greater than what you can get out of it.”
“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
“What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.”
“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”
“What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.”
Source: The Solution
“What you can't see in the dark, you can see in the light. Believe in God”
“What you can’t see right now is that nothing is really wrong.
Actually, things are really right, which is why you finally feel safe
enough to feel what you really feel. Stop projecting. Stop telling stories.
Those dull, unsettling feelings are not in the future—they’re in the past.
You’ve been carrying them with you all this time.”
“What you can't be with, won't let you be.”
“What you can't enforce, do not command.”
“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What you can't imagine, you can't discover.”
“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”
Source: Farthing
“What you can't run away from, you have to face”
Source: Dante Valentine
“What you can't teach someone is how to find the door. You can't give someone a door to another universe. You can tell them that the door exists, and if they're stuck in the hallway you can be like, "You're stuck in the hallway," but you can't open the door for them.”
“What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.”
“What you cannot control, you must accept.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”
“What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.”
“What you cannot see in the world is far more powerful than anything you can see.”
“What you cant forget... God cant remember!”
“What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.”
“What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!”
“What you carry with you, it weighs you down, down, down.”
Source: Black Widow #3
“What you choose also chooses you.”
“What you choose as freedom is freedom.”
Source: Seeds Before Sunshine: A Book to Live
“What you choose not to look at will shape you just as much as what you face.”