W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'”
“When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.”
“When Germany and Russia signed the first Nord Stream pipeline deal in 2005, enormously increasing the flow of Gazprom's gas to the West, it was denounced by Poland’s foreign minister as a second coming of the Hitler-Stalin Pact that had sealed Poland’s fate in 1939. When Moscow tweaked Ukraine’s gas prices over the winter of 2005-2006, it only confirmed the Poles’ worst fears.”
Source: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“When gettin' off wasn't worth puttin' up with her, I ended it”
Source: The Gamble
“When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.”
“When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
(A Study Of Reading Habits)”
Source: Collected Poems
“When, getting too used to ourselves, we begin to loathe ourselves, we soon realize that we are worse off, that self-hatred actually strengthens self-attachment.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“When Ghada, the beautiful 78 year old Palestinian woman, offered me the bread she had just conjured up on the makeshift and primitive cast iron lid balanced upon a rocky fire outside of her sparse UNRWA tent in 2015 it was precisely then that I decided that my life had to change.
No longer could I justify vulgar material possessions and unnecessary finances. I returned home, sold my house,moved into a modest but adequate abode and gave a lot of time and funds to helping those with nothing.
Some of us aren't destined to feel rapturous love...find deep faith...have a sense of belonging in this world but thanks to Ghada and the many like her, both young and old,that I encountered in Gaza and the West Bank I finally realized and truly understood what it meant to be a human being and what the real purpose of this life is....to help,to give,to speak out,to speak up,to right the many wrongs...to do all of those things without ever once expecting a single thing in return. After all, it is neither heroic or special to do what is just.”
“When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.”
“When giants fought, ants were crushed.”
Source: Black Dawn
“When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.”
“When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment”
“When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.”
“When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.”
“When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.”
Source: Absence of the Hero
“When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'”
“When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.”
“When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.”
“When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.”
“When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be around for them when they graduate. There is no such expectation in Afghanistan. It's all still hope and wanting it but not really sure if it's going to be around.”
“When girls like me, who are relatively smart and pretty, who have something to say, and who have their own points of view, spend every Friday night home alone watching reality TV, this is because all of the guys they might potentially have dated are out with Adventure Barbie.
You know who she is—that girl with the perfectly tousled hair, long legs, and no fat anywhere because she doesn’t eat. She wears super-high heels, which she can walk in perfectly, but she also comes equipped with hiking boots. A guy who finds himself an A.B. is pleased to find out that she is equally at home zip-lining and fine dining. She will go with him to his kickboxing gym and impress all the guys there, and then she will go home and change into a little black dress and five-inch heels. A.B. does not exist in nature; she is her own creation. And no regular girl can match her. A regular girl’s face betrays her panic when she is asked to go rock climbing or cliff diving. A regular girl looks like a drowned rat after an afternoon of white-water rafting. But not Adventure Barbie.”
“When girls like us fall, there’s no one to catch us. Least of all that boy for whom we’ve taken the fall.
We’re the girls with secrets and witchy hearts. We’re the girls who listen to sad songs. Who slow dance to them with tears streaming down our faces, even as a smile lingers on our lips. Who cry in our pillows at night and who ride our sunshine-yellow bicycle along the empty, desolate, miserable places, where no one goes.”
Source: My Darling Arrow
“When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.”
Source: Find Your Voice: A Woman's Call to Action
“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”
“When girls were married they suddenly became important and relevant. Not as important as the older women or –God forbid – the men, but still higher up on the food chain than unmarried girls.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt
“When given a second chance, live a good life.”
“When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.”
Source: Rebel Without a Crew, Or, How a 23-year-old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
“When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.”
“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”
“When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.”
Source: Five Interesting Corpses: Essays from Chuck Klosterman IV
“When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.”
“When giving directions, it's important to be precise. Invoke words such as yonder.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."”
“When giving in to the harmonies of tree music, I find small animals drawn to my outdoor practices and feel myself more highly linked to them and the land.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.”
Source: Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
“When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.”
“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”
“When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.”
Source: Fasting
“When glaciers break up due to rising world temperatures, its called calving. I'm calving”
“When glance turns
To a sky-blue clear day,
When the purplr-red sun
Sinks low at sirocco,
Here nature bestows glory,
Joy, sound to eye and heart,
And we find in color lore,
The universal truth.
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GER:
Wenn der Blick an heitern Tagen
Sich zur Himmelsbläue lenkt,
Beim Sirok der Sonnenwagen
Purpurrot sich niedersenkt,
Da gebt der Natur die Ehre,
Froh, an Aug und Herz gesund,
Und erkennt der Farbenlehre
Allgemeinen, ewigen Grund.
Zahme Xenien VI.”
Source: Xenien
“When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.”
“When GLF talked about sexual liberation, the agenda often included two interlocking items rarely mentioned these days: freeing up same-sex attraction in confirmed heterosexuals and releasing heterosexual desire in those who considered themselves exclusively gay.”
Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?
“When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody.”
“When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.”
“When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.”
“When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.”
Source: Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London
“When God allows hurt IN your life, it is because he is using it for a greater purpose FOR your life.”
“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
“When God Almighty blogs, then I blog, I put to writing what he says at any time and at any place. May God our Father bless the internet and all social media and public publishing platforms in the name of Jesus Christ. Through these Social Media and healing platforms, the Lord God Almighty has brought the message of healing, cleansing, protection, salvation and peace, ability and stability, joy and happiness, justice and peace to all people without bias....Father God, the Lord God Almighty says this to all his vessels he uses for his glory and honour, "You rise above in greatness for I am with you and in you. I will lift you up to the greatest heights, for you are mine all you innovative entities and people.”
Source: Blogs From God Almighty: Books Of Strength
“When God anoints you, people will see it. When He appoints you, others will know it, and when He uplifts you, the world will hear it because He can do what has never been heard.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration