W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.”
“When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
“When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.”
“When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
“When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.”
“When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.”
“When a life is thrown from its body suddenly (by accident), or semi-suddenly (by an untimely illness), or unwillingly (by resisting death) there is damage to the system because the life-force was not prepared to leave. The exiting soul will struggle to make sense of where it is and what it is supposed to do next. It is a great gift to help someone crossover well. The person leaving will benefit from a clearer, cleaner, calmer post-Earth path. When people die, they essentially follow their instincts and leanings. Most of their human associations and attachments disintegrate. They are pulled, pushed, and drawn by their inherent tendencies. Advanced souls have a more conscious and intentional path after their passing.”
Source: Purnima
“When a life-threatening diagnosis comes knocking on your door in the form of cancer, it is impossible to deny the reality of your impending mortality.”
Source: Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver's Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses
“When a light appears in the darkness, the darkness becomes richer; and when a darkness appears in the light, the light becomes richer! Uniformity impoverishes, discrepancy enriches!”
“When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.”
Source: Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3
“When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“When a little black kid disappears and the media ignores it, so does the public. I know you know this. Not only that but how much media coverage a case gets has a direct relationship to how much manpower the brass assigns to solving that case. It also impacts whether or not the feds get involved. I know you know this too, dammit . . .”
“. . . Lobby her on the other case at the same time, knock yourself out, but grant her an interview on Gilbert. Is that understood?”
“Loud and clear, boss. After all, we can’t let a little thing like institutional racism get in our way, now, can we?”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.”
“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.”
“When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.”
“When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.”
“When a living person looks at a dead person, mightn't the person's soul also be there by its body's side, looking down at its own face?”
Source: Human Acts
“When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.”
“When a lonely tree sees another lonely tree, even from far away, its loneliness suddenly diminishes!”
“When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“When a loss is ambiguous, no public ceremony acknowledges the loss and its fallout, or honors the memory of the loved one. It was true for us. People still were unsure how to respond to the endlessness of our unique form of loss. Should they grieve with us or pretend life was fine now that Zach had lived through it all? Would we resent it if they didn't mention the injury, or if they did?”
Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
“When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.”
“When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning because their identity is wrapped up in who they are as a player and what they do rather than who they can be in Christ. We desire to help people understand the invitation that God has given each one of us as Christ followers to be a part of this global redemptive story. If you can't give your life to something with meaning and purpose of that magnitude then there's nothing there.”
“When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.”
“When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something.”
“When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!”
“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.”
“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.”
“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.”
“WHEN A LOVE BEGINS TO COST MONEY, IT'S CALLED A FAMILY.”
“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”
“When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“When a loved one battles cancer, it is through unconditional acts of love and spiritual support that inspires the determination to prevail.”
“When a loved one dies, part of the mourning process is adjusting to having their presence in our life shift from outside of us to inside of us.”
“When a loved one dies, there is always guilt of some kind the living holds on to. Could they have prevented the tragedy? Should they have called the doctor sooner? If they only hadn’t left the window open, the lamp lit, or decided not to picnic at the lake. The ‘had I but known’ regret is very common.”
Source: Delicious Death
“When a loved one is arrested every minute counts. The right help at the right time can change everything for a family.”
“When a loved one is incarcerated, it's like an atom bomb falls on them, obliterating everything in an instant. Their freedom, their movement, their livelihood, gone. But the bomb's shock waves spread out and envelop close family and friends too. The prison industrial complex eats incarcerated people as the main course but also feasts on their relatives, relationships, and communities. Its appetite is voracious.”
Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“When a loved one is sick, the days are long, but the years are short.”
Source: Hour of the Bees
“When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.”
“When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.”
“When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.”
“When a lull came in the conversation he sat up in bed with vigor and said: "Does not all this explain that mysterious passage in the Gospel which tells how Mary placed her 'firstborn' in the manger? So many have mistakenly believed that that word implies that she was to have other children. We know she was to have millions on millions but not according to the flesh; only in the spirit. Jesus was her only Son in one sense, but all men are her children in the other."
"Exactly," said the young scholar. "In one of his encyclicals, Pius X told how Mary, carrying Jesus in her womb, was carrying each of us spiritually; for in carrying the Head of the Mystical Body physically, she was carrying the whole Mystical Body spiritually." (Chapter 2)”
Source: Your Hour
“When a machine does a mistake, it’s not a mistake, something is wrong. When human do mistakes, it is a mistake, but nothing wrong.”
Source: Rong Type: Creative Typography Visualization Design Word Art Book - 66 Words - by Zisha Schnitzler
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?”
“When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.”
Source: A Man of the People