W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”
“Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.”
“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Whatsoever thing you believe strongly,
it will be turned into truth within your mind.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.”
“Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.”
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.”
“Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.”
Source: The Mystery of Providence
“Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.”
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)”
“Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.”
“Whatsoever you are doing...be double-arrowed.”
“Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to do with your expectations and your desires. You just let it come in; don't block the way. Remove yourself out of your own way. This time, with no expectations, no desires, no hopes, just meditate.”
“Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don't turn it into a suffering, don't turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.”
“Whatsoever you conceive, You shall receive”
“Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.”
“Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.”
“Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”
“Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Whatʼs a bootstrapper to do?
You have to go where the other guys canʼt. Take advantage of what you have so that you can beat the competition with what they donʼt.”
Source: The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
“What’ cha doing out here all alone? Did you forget how to find Sanctuary? (Simi) No. I want to be alone for a bit. (Gallagher) Why? Were the bears mean to you? Mama can get a bit cranky whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I’m going to eat one, but bleh! They’re way too hairy. Now if she’d let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) Are you joking? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. (Simi)”
“What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?” “I’d stop the world from spinning for you.” That silly line oddly touched me. “I love you.” “Liked that one, did you?”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?”
Source: The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“What’s broken, and how do we fix it?”
“What’s burning?” “Your brain.”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance
“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.”
“What’s easy to do, is also easy not to do.”
“What’s going on? (Astrid) Not much. Some invincible asshole is trying to kill me. (Zarek)”
“What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?” He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.” “Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?”
“What’s goin’ on?” I ask as I take a seat. “Obviously not this.” He tosses me my shirt from last night. “I found it on the floor of the den. It’s obvious there was some hanky-panky going on.” Okay, so he knows we fooled around. But at least he didn’t find Kiara’s bra on top of my shirt. “Yeah . . . things kinda got a little heated after you and Mrs. W. left the den last night,” I tell him.”
“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
“What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.”
“What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.”
“What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?”
Source: Black Dawn
“What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us”
Source: Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
“What’s interesting about you is you.”
“What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid”
“What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.”
Source: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
“What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems”
“What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.”
“What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.”
“What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?”