W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.”
Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Dangerous days
“When a great door closes right in front of you, do not despair. Trust the God who feeds the birds of the air.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a great house is about to crumble, a stick cannot keep it from falling.”
Source: Sky Above, Great Wind
“When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.”
“When a great man dies, nations mourn. When an ordinary man dies, only those who loved him mourn. When an evil man dies, even the wicked do not mourn. Pretentious eulogies harm those who hear them.”
“When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.”
“When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.”
Source: The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!”
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”
“When a great multitude is making a pilgrimage, I should never advise him to do so, for as a rule people return on these occasions in a state of greater distraction than when they went. And many set out and make these pilgrimages for recreation rather than devotion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
“When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.”
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.”
“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of production, and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”
“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.”
“When a group of people are forced to navigate a minefield together, everyone feels a grudging sense of comfort when someone else gets blown up. Though there may be other unseen landmines left in the ground, each death creates a safe spot. A landmine cannot explode twice in the same place. Sure, the explosion robs the survivors of a comrade. Still, each death makes everyone’s next step marginally safer. So everyone keeps walking with grief on their faces, and relief in their hearts. Their own deaths are further postponed by the end of another life.”
Source: The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.”
“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t
know which way any of them will go.”
Source: Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past
“When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.”
Source: The Bird Watching Answer Book: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond
“When a grown man is chasing you around a building or running through the hotel and trying to jump in your elevator, oh man, I can't even see it. What excitement can you possibly get from having my autograph besides selling it?”
“When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.”
“When a guest sits down there should be something beautiful and inspiring to look at.”
“When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow.”
“When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.”
“When a guy calls you hot, he's looking at your body. When a guy calls you pretty, he's looking at your face. When a guy calls you beautiful, he's looking at your heart. All three guys still wanna fuck you though.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!”
“When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'”
“When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth he’s also a loser, because now he would be lost in the system. If you were listening to the news recently, some people you know well are doing 45, and 64 years for murder. They might have won their fight, but they lost their lives to the system. Franco ‘Co’ Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.”
“When a guy is into you, he lets you know it. He calls, he shows up, he wants to meet your friends, he can't keep his eyes or hands off of you.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.”
“When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.”
“When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you."”
“When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."”
“When a guy says,'I'll call you,' and he doesn't say when-that means he won't call you." Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed a couple buttons. My phone vibrated in my pocket. I fished it out, smiling. "Madness," Kit whispered softly into his phone. "I meant I'd call you. This is me calling you.”
“When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!”
“When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.”
“When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.”
“When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.”
Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
“When a habit is truly important to you, you have to stick to it in any mood.”
Source: Atomic Habbits: James Clear, Rich Dad Poor Dad: Robert Kiyosaki & Psychology of Money: Morgan Housel
“When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.”
“When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law, she was ready to agree. It took her only about a month to read every federal decision and every law review article about women’s status. There wasn’t much. One popular textbook included the passage “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”
Source: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.”
“When a health policy analyst went to heaven, he asked God the same question: 'Will America ever have a single-payer system?' And God said, 'Absolutely. Just not in my lifetime.' I'm afraid that little story is true. Americans just are not prepared to let government be responsible for all of their health care.”
“When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I’m as solid as a column. And alone I stand.”
Source: Revived
“When a heart breaks, the ointment of dance heals all the pain.”
“When a heart gets hurt, its pain comes over the words.”
― Samar Sudha”
“When a heart grows turbulent and answers feel buried beneath the storm, step into open land. There, in the rustle of prairie grass and the steady flow of a river, you will find solutions to problems that vex. For nature never forces growth, yet it always endures and rises stronger. The truest legacies are not built in haste, but in the quiet places where a seed chooses to root.”
Source: Flavors of Confidence: A Reflection for Those in Need