W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a voice trained to soar goes silent, the silence echoes through generations.”
Vanishing Voices Documentary 2025”
“When a vulnerable little creature needs you, no matter how weak and tired you are, you will suddenly become very powerful because compassion makes one strong!”
“When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.”
“When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Stoic,
She lives most heroic,
smiling with ruby, moistened lips
once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
“When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.”
“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”
Source: Collected fiction
“When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.”
“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”
“When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.”
“When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)”
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
“When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.”
“When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.”
“When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world.”
“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.”
“When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.”
“When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.”
Source: Cross Creek
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
“When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things that are unexpected, and makes you laugh and cry because of his human flaws and foibles.”
“When a white man goes to the pub, he is a socializer; a Brown man in a bar is a drunkard. A white arrogant man is an alpha male; headstrong Indians are pricks. A white man sleeping around is a lover; an Indian on multiple dates is a womanizer. White men make love, we Brown Indians f*ck”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.”
“When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.”
“When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".”
Source: How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide
“When a wide variety of mental processes are treated with bare, non-judgmental attention, they are held in an open, spacious container. This enables the meditation practitioner to befriend his or her thoughts and emotions, no matter what they are, and reduces the likelihood of being tyrannized by an inordinately demanding superego”
Source: Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.”
“When a wife tells her husband, he sucks in bed, it’s undeniable he will obtain a second opinion.”
“When a window closes another one opens”
“When a window is opened up from the inside for you to climb through, then that window isn't there to be climbed through by you”
Source: Double Trouble
“When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.”
“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”
“When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8
“When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.”
“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”
“When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.”
Source: Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
“When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.”
“When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“When a woman allows a man to enter her he is either giving or taking vital energy. A man can only share vital energy if he possesses it. A man’s vitality lies in his inner work and reservation of his semen emissions, which contains vital energy, life force. Avoiding overly frequent ejaculations is key. Building your storehouse of vital energy takes maturity and discipline.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When a woman becomes a mother, she becomes a life giver, teacher, protector, champion, and pillar of strength. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.”
“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
“When a woman begins making love with a new man, a creature is born in her - of emotional and sexual responses that grows in its own laws, its own logic.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
“When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.”
Source: The Basic Needs of a Woman in Labour
“When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.”
“When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.”
“When a woman chooses to marry, she puts her life into his hands. When she chooses not to marry, she must be ready to put her life into her own hands. These quarrels are petty and tiresome, I grant you that, but there is something to be learned in them. They have a use.”
Source: The Callender Papers
“When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress”
“When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.”