W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.”
“When all politics is rooted in partisanism, political science is but animal science.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.”
“When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.”
“When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.”
“When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.”
“When all that's left of me is love,
Give me away.”
“When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.”
“When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.”
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
“When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.”
“When all the birds drowned in the sliver bay
When the smoke signal went into outer space
Nobody would remember
The day the world went away
When the blood dripped off the rusted blade
When the Bible was torn off another page
Nobody would realize
The day the world went away”
Source: 地獄鎮魂歌
“When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.”
“When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.”
“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.”
Source: Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“When all the dread agonies move abroad, silently and peacefully spring arrives with her blowing smiles from the blooming lips of flowers far and near,lushly the sour cherries blossom, the wind whispers and waves.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen”
“When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face.”
“When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”
“When all the fights stop, so does the passion.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.”
“When all the lights fold back into their silence,
in a place secret and safe, warm and fragrant like stars,
you will realize without thought, or sound or color,
that for one second I stood knee-deep inside your heart.
You had gone looking for a friend, and one had found you.”
Source: Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.”
“When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.”
“When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.”
“When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.”
“When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.”
“When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.”
“When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war.”
Source: Dispatches
“When all the public eye sees are headscarves instead of individual stories, our community is collectively tokenized. It creates the perception that opportunity is limited and only a rare few of us can make it. Whenever that happens to an already marginalized community, it pits its own members in a competition against one another instead of against the restrictive frameworks that put us in that position in the first place. The first hijabi whatever won't eliminate Islamophobia just as the first black president hasn't eliminated racism, though both are signifiers of some type of progress — symbols of ascending beyond adversity.”
Source: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
“When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.”
“When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“When all the senses are synchronized, the soul emerges.”
Source: The invention of Morel
“When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.”
“When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.”
“When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.”
“When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map the terrains of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the universe, but no amount of searching will ever reveal for certain whether we are all children of chance or part of a great design. And who among us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take the mystery out of the experience of looking into a newborn infant's eyes?”
Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life
“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.”
“When all the world is a stage, the best liars will rise to the top.”
“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
Source: Leviathan
“When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.”
“When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.”
“When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.”
“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“When all things come to an end, the Word of God will remain, and those who follow its way will be saved.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“When all things fadeth and tremble in fear,
love stands strong. Brave in the still night.”
Source: Imagination and a World of Dreams