W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When doubts takeover and hope seems thin,
Remember strength lies DEEP within.
With every step, the path feels clear,
Self-belief will remove the fear.”
“When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.”
“When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.”
“When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life’s “imperative to grow” personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.”
“When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.”
“When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.”
“When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.”
“When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.”
“When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.”
Source: The Japan Architect
“When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.”
Source: Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
“When dreaming is better than reality we're living
What's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?”
“When dreams are new realities,
and those dreams are free from oddities,
time just stops for every dream,
till it is real, or real it seems...
When we stop to dream, for a moment, my friend,
we just lose ourselves, our dreams we just lend;
the consequence of this is clear,
we are grown-up children here...
When children are forced to grow up in no time,
what’s left is for them to grow up in the mind,
to rise above everything – all else – a sky,
a fruit tree, whose fruit all the people can try...
Whenever it rains - the sky, it is crying again,
no reason, no sense, like a baby, whose diaper is stained,
yet there is one ancient truth you should now know:
right after the darkness, Dawn’s face always shows...”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“When dreams become words to share with others - amazing things can happen.”
“When dreams can real already be,
away goes sorrow, forth comes glee,
yet always we will craft new dreams,
our hearts on fire, that can’t be seen…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“When dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they’ll never be good enough, and there’s something seriously wrong with that.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“When dreams meet memories it's a promise.”
“When dreams seem out of reach, persevere. One by one, they will come to you.”
Source: Book Club Murder in Kingfisher Falls
“When driven by the motive to please a woman based on sex alone, a man may steal, cheat and even commit murder. But when the emotion is sensuality, that same man will guide his actions with more sanity, balance and reason.”
“when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.”
Source: Works
“When drowning in difficulty, swim like an Olympian.”
“When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.”
“When Drustan reached the bottom step, she flung herself into his arms. He swung her up into his embrace and kissed her hungrily. By the time he'd finished, she was gasping for air and laughing. "My turn?" Dageus teased.”
Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle
“When duas are sincere, they become sacred gifts, whispers of the soul to Allah, seeking blessings for those we hold dear.”
“When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarrassed to be receiving such a public display of affection. After all, he did try his very best to barbeque me once. But that didn't matter now.”
Source: Angel Eyes
“When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life
“When, during and after the Reformation, the universities lost their status as so many autonomous parts of the universal church, they lost their independence correspondingly. In Protestant Europe, they came under the jurisdiction of the national churches and of the rapacious national monarchies; in Catholic Europe --although to a lesser extent--they came under the jurisdiction of the reinvigorated and consolidated Papacy, and of the sovereigns who, as in Spain and France, made royal influence over the church establishment within their realms a condition of their support for the Roman cause. The dissolution of medieval universalism meant that learning, like nearly everything else, was forced to submit to new or more rigid denominations. With the complete or partial secularization of society which followed upon the French Revolutionary era, in nearly every country except Britain, the universities were stripped of what remained of their old rights and became little better than state corporations.”
Source: Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition
“When dusk falls on us, as it will,
To dim the light of lives outlived,
When night is next, when sleep is sure,
When nothing’s left to lift—
I will be glad. The work of a day
Well done, this rest its good reward,
The best we’ve earned and what
We’ve won, this doorway opening.
Our lives are like this: years moved on
Beyond the words that started them.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.”
“When duty calls, that is when character counts.”
“When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.”
“When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.”
“When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.”
“When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.”
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.”
Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There
“When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order.”
“When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.”
“When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.”
Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
“When each person planted a single tree, together, they created a forest. When each person raised their voice, together, they created a movement.”
Source: Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest
“When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.”
Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire " ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )”
“When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.”
“When earth is called the wife of Odin, the mother of Thor, when wind is styled the son of Fornjót and the sea is conceived as Ran, the wife of Ægir, the myths are not anthropomorphism or personification in the modern and Alexandrian sense. Human-likeness is joined to the other qualities of natural phenomena or, more truly expressed, human appearance enters as a quality among other qualities into the soul of earth, wind and sea, but it does not in the least interfere with the impersonal workings of the forces of nature. There is no contradiction between subject and verb in the scald's description of the winter gales: “Fornjót's Sons began to whirl,” nor is there really any breach of common-sense in a storm scene such as this: “The gusts carded and twined the storm-glad daughters of Ægir.” The moon gives birth, the earth is a mother, stones bring young into the world, and that is to say that these beings beget, conceive and are delivered, for thus all procreation takes place under the sun. But this does not imply that earth must transform itself to a human being and seek a couch to bring forth its children. The little we know as to our forefathers' practical relations with the world about them indicates, as will soon appear, that they did not appeal to the objects of nature as pseudo-personalities; like their primitive brethren all over the world, they tried to win the friendship and power of animals and trees and stones by much surer means. When the poet lets Frigg send messengers about to fire and water, iron and all kinds of ore, to stones, earth, trees, sicknesses, beasts, birds, to get them to swear they will never harm Balder, he has plainly no idea in his mind of such messengers going out to knock at the doors of nymphs and demons; his hearers must have been familiar with a method of appealing directly to the things themselves, to the souls.”
Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
“When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.”
“When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets have repeatedly told us, that the fruits of the gospel are the only objectives worthy of life's full efforts. Their possessor obtains true wealth - wealth in the Lord's view of values. We need constantly to deepen our understandings and sharpen our realization of what the fruits of the gospel are. The Lord has defined them as . . . peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.”
“When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!”