W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the colors of his guard, the colors he has told me he selected for his future court. I chose black and red for the tattoos on Barrons' body. Tonight I wear my promise to him that I will make things right.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“When Daryl and I began a new life together at Mulberry Hill I knew as everyone knows that our earthly stay is short but it was not yet a truth engraved on my heart as it is today. Vita brevis... just words written up on a wall. Watch your step. No smoking. Life is short. Life at this moment seemed as infinite as the quiet evening sky and I was filled with a sense of continuity of all beautiful things.”
Source: Time Without Clocks
“When David and I went to visit my mom, she treated me well and seemed interested in our lives, focusing less on what she needed from me or how I should be taking care of her.
Mom saved those conversations for our daily phone calls because she thought David wouldn't find out about this other side other. But he could see the changes in me when I talked to my mom.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.”
“When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.”
“When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.”
“When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, he didn’t kill her himself. He dreamed convenient acts of God.”
Source: Mr. Peanut
“When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.”
Source: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
“When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night.”
“When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.”
Source: Every Day
“When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.”
Source: Divine By Mistake
“When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Source: The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
“When daylight lasts until 10pm because of the time change, and the traffic noise has died down, I have the illusion that all I’d need to do is return to those faraway neighborhoods to find the people I’ve lost, who had never left [...] Colette is leaning against the door of a private townhouse, hands in the pockets of her raincoat. Every time I look at that picture, it hurts. It’s like in the morning when you try to recall your dream from the night before, but all that’s left are scraps that dissolve before you can put them together. I knew that woman in another life and I’m doing my best to remember. Maybe someday I’ll manage to break through that layer of silence and amnesia.”
Source: Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
“When days and time.
makes no difference to you , nothing else makes difference to you.
Even life itself becomes worthless, and the real tragedy is that everyone around you leaves and you are left alone to guide your dark fate. Enlighten your close friends... Where is your only love... There is no one around you. Everyone mind their own business. So be careful of what benefits you”
“When days seem like years and years feel like days.”
“When DC Comics was trying to figure out how to retool Wonder Woman’s image to make her cooler, they looked at another Diana—Diana Rigg. Rigg had caused a stir as Mrs. Emma Peel when the British TV series The Avengers was imported to the US in 1966. Mrs. Peel defined the heroine of the mod ’60s—brilliant as she was beautiful, witty, champion fencer, martial arts ex-pert, modern artist, crack shot with a pistol, and fearless secret agent. Attired in sleek black leather catsuits or mod body stockings, Emma Peel was a true force to be reckoned with, combining beauty, brains, and power.”
Source: Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
“When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence. "I am perfectly satisfied with her," he wrote. "She is everything I want.”
Source: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
“When dead no man finds respect or glory from men
of his town. Rather, we hope while alive for some
favor from the living. The dead are always scorned.”
“When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.”
“When dealing with a crazy neighbor, I found the police and court system empowered that neighbor to harass me.”
“When dealing with a crazy neighbor, I was very surprised to have my legal ability to protect myself by video recording the neighbor removed by the legal system.”
“When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.”
“When dealing with a living germ, we should also be aware that it can mutate. This is known to happen with live virus vaccines. The viruses have the ability to revert back to being harmful to us.”
Source: Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed?
“When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.”
Source: The Black Prince
“When dealing with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle or an enduring crisis, and when you want to give up, ask yourself two questions: 1. What will be lost if you quit just now? 2. And where will you reach if you kept going? The answer to the first question defines your Purpose and the answer to the second one is your Vision. This is the bifocal approach to intelligent living that you must cultivate: of keeping your feet firmly on the ground, rooted to your brutal current reality and yet being unwavering with your sense of Purpose and your Vision.”
“When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.”
“When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing”
“When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.”
“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
“When dealing with Cybernetic System Ai[WE]'s, we may find that side effects may have equal importance to goals. In other words, goal specifics may be markedly less important than goal existence.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“When dealing with Cybernetic System [WE]'s, we may find that Side Effects may have equal importance to Goals. In other words, Goal specifics may be markedly less important than goal existence”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.”
“When dealing with mysterious sickness, I advise people to look at what their coworkers were dying from for clues. My coworkers were were dying from suicide, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease and brain disease.”
“When dealing with others, take note if they do not accept this message or our help. My message from the other side is "It's okay, they're not lost, they're finding their own path, and if uy want to be a leader for them, then the way uy do that is by getting in front of it and being an example for them to follow, should they wish to, in their own time.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
“When dealing with problems, seek not to "change" some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.”
“When dealing with something beyond your control, make letting go of it your goal.”
Source: CALM for Moms: Worry Less in Four Simple Steps
“When dealing with systemic injustice, just because something is not calculated doesn't mean it isn't by design.”
“When dealing with the dishonest,
be shrewd.
When dealing with the crafty,
be cunning.
When dealing with the wise,
be prudent.
When dealing with the enlightened,
be sapient.
When dealing with all,
be noble.
When opponents want to engage you,
consider them.
When critics want to debate you,
regard them.
When enemies want to oppose you,
observe them.
When adversaries want to destroy you,
outfox them.
When rivals want to reconcile with you,
embrace them.”
“When dealing with the dishonest,
be shrewd.
When dealing with the crafty,
be cunning.
When dealing with the wise,
be prudent.
When dealing with the enlightened,
be sapient.
When dealing with all,
be noble.
When opponents want you to talk to you,
consider them.
When critics want you to debate you,
regard them.
When enemies want you to oppose you,
embrace them.
When rivals want you to teach them,
revere them.”
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
“When dealing with the internet, I knew that people would have their own opinions, and I went into it with that in mind.”
“When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.”
“When dealing with your wife, never use logic otherwise you will go crazy. Simply understand her and save yourself stress.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson.
Bhanggi”
Source: This House of Clay and Water
“When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson."
"In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.”
Source: This House of Clay and Water
“When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.”
“When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche