W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house.”
Source: Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories
“When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'”
“When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us”
“When Abbess Ebba received tidings of the near approach of the pagan hordes, who had already wrecked vengeance upon ecclesiastics, monks, and consecrated virgins, she summoned her nuns to Chapter, and in a moving discourse exhorted them to preserve at any cost the treasure of their chastity. Then seizing a razor, and calling upon her daughters to follow her heroic example, she mutilated her face in order to inspire the barbarian invaders with horror at the sight. The nuns without exception courageously followed the example of their abbess. When the Danes broke into the cloister and saw the nuns with faces thus disfigured, they fled in panic. Their leaders, burning with rage, sent back some of their number to set fire to the monastery, and thus the heroic martyrs perished in the common ruin of their house.”
Source: A Calendar of Scottish Saints
“When abhinivesh [firm attachment to one’s own view] leaves, one becomes a Parmatma.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography
“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.”
“When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.”
“When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.”
“When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.”
Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives
“When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.”
“When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.”
Source: The Low-Carb Fraud
“When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive...abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.”
“When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.”
“When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.”
“When Achilles heard this he sank into the black depths of despair. He picked up the dark dust in both his hands and poured it on his head...he cast himself down on the earth and lay there like a fallen giant, fouling his hair and tearing it out with his own hands...[the maidservants] beat their breasts with their hands and sank to the ground beside their royal master.”
Source: The Iliad
“When acknowledged, problems regarding Zen rights are seen by TZN as skin, flesh, and bones relative to a record of outstanding accomplishment in addressing the greater needs of humankind and the potential that Zen has at its core, or marrow, to achieve much more in the social realm than other less philosophically consistent spiritual outlooks or less disciplined forms of religious training. To put it crudely, according to TZN, Zen and only Zen, which functions seamlessly in both the ideal and real realms, is capable of embarking on a worldwide mission to save modern civilization from its own undoing. But according to HCC, the Zen approach, in which there festers an irresolvable gap between realms, has already shown its failure to address some basic matters of inequity within the narrow context of Japanese society and should not be let off the hook.”
Source: Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?
“When acquaintances expressed their fascination with his new Palm Beach home {Mar-A-Lago} , the stockbroker often shrugged cynically. 'You know Marjorie said she as going to build a little cottage by the sea. Look what we got!”
Source: American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
“When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.”
“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
“When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.”
Source: The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella: In Two Volumes
“When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“When actively engaged consumers understand why and where they spend their dollars, they will influence the world on a larger scale.”
Source: GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
“When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.”
“When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?”
“When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.”
“When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.”
“When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?”
“When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.”
“When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.”
“When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!”
“When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.”
“When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.”
“When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.”
“When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.”
“When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.”
“When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.”
“When acts of kindness and calls for civility are fueled by social, economic, and racial privilege, these acts are often more about doing just enough to keep the status quo and not about transformative change for those who are experiencing struggle.”
“When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.”
“When Adam and Eve bit into the fruit, therefore, they weren’t just violating some arbitrary command, “Don’t eat the fruit.” They were doing something much sadder and much more serious. They were rejecting God’s authority over them and declaring their independence from him. Adam and Eve wanted to be, as the Serpent promised them, “like God,” so both of them seized on what they thought was an opportunity to shed the vice-regency and take the crown itself. In all the universe, there was only one thing God had not placed under Adam’s feet—God himself. Yet Adam decided this arrangement was not good enough for him, and so he rebelled.”
Source: What Is the Gospel?
“When Adam found his rib was gone
He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
And looked with cold resentment on
The creature God has used it for.”
Source: Spectral emanations: new and selected poems
“When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.”
Source: On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World
“When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.”
“When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.”
“When addressing underachievement, a holistic understanding of each person's unique circumstances paves the way for effective interventions and empowerment.”
“When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them”
“When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.”
“When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, his conservative allies, headed by Deputy Chancellor Franz von Papen, along with those conservative and nationalist leaders who supported von Papen’s Hitler experiment, expected to manage the untrained new head of government without difficulty. They were confident that their university degrees, experience in public affairs, and worldly polish would give them easy superiority over the uncouth Nazis. Chancellor Hitler would spellbind the crowds, they imagined, while Deputy Chancellor von Papen ran the state.
Hitler’s conservative allies were not the only ones to suppose that Nazism was a flash in the pan. The Communist International was certain that the German swing to the Right under Hitler would produce a counterswing to the Left as soon as German workers understood that democracy was an illusion and turned away from the reformist social democrats. “The current calm after the victory of Fascism is only temporary. Inevitably, despite Fascist terrorism, the revolutionary tide in Germany will grow. . . . The establishment of open Fascist dictatorship, which is destroying all democratic illusions among the masses and is freeing them from the influence of the Social Democrats, will speed up Germany’s progress toward the proletarian revolution.”
Against the expectations of both Right and Left, Hitler quickly established full personal authority. The first period of Nazi rule saw the Gleichschaltung, the bringing into line, not only of potential enemies but also of conservative colleagues. The keys to Hitler’s success were his superior audacity, drive, and tactical agility; his skillful manipulation (as we saw in the previous chapter) of the idea that imminent communist “terror” justified the suspension of due process and the rule of law; and a willingness to commit murder.”
Source: The Anatomy of Fascism