W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom.”
Source: Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
“When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.”
“When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.”
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.”
“When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.”
“When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.”
“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.”
Source: Sense of Sight
“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”
“When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.”
“When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.”
“When a parent creates a child, in fact they have no idea about the history of that stream of consciousness, as in what that they did in their previous lives, and more importantly whether it will be a good entity, or a bad one. What they need to realize is that they have simply created the shell, or the chassis of the car, that the entity will enter and control. Genetic similarities and conditioning are the only tools that will help the parent to mould that child, as it evolves.”
“When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.”
“When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.”
“When a parent interferes with a child's anger response in these heavy-handed ways [ridiculing, ignoring, isolating, goading, punishing, distracting, hitting, joking], the anger increases and is redirected at the parent: now the parent is the one who's violating the child's sense of well-being by interfering with a natural and necessary outlet of emotion. Most parents stifle this secondary outburst of anger, too, only this time with more force. [...] Instead of allowing the anger to flow through the child's system the first time it's expressed, the parent unwittingly fans the anger, then dams it up. The anger becomes trapped in the little girl's stomach, muscles, and jaw, and becomes an enduring wound.”
Source: The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
“When a parent leaves their baby to cry on its own, aloneness and separation is imparted.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.”
“When a parent suffers, the children suffer.”
Source: Something About Lizzy: Family Secrets Post-Pride and Prejudice
“When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.”
“when a particle and antiparticle touch
they both disappear in a burst
of gamma radiation
that generates huge amount of energy...
can this be Love?' Art of 4 Elements”
“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.”
“When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!”
Source: The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight
“When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.”
“When a pastor is led by what people demand of them and not what God demands of them a shepherd turns into a wolf”
“When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.”
“When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.”
“When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)”
“When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease.”
“When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.”
“When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.”
“When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble.”
“When a people forget their stories, they don’t become modern. They become hollow.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“When a people get blind by the heart, they go wherever lies are decorated.”
“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.”
“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.”
“When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.”
“When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.”
“When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.”
Source: How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams
“When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.”
“When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.”
Source: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
“When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.”
“When a person becomes comfortable with stupidity, it eventually defines him.”
“When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!”
“When a person becomes haughty, his root is traced and exposed. Woe betides him if his origin has skeletons.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.”
“When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.”
“When a person boldly declares 'You can't' he might as well add on 'Can you?' knowing that this spoken roadblock only serves to fuel a challenge in naturally stubborn souls.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”