W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.”
Source: Fatal curiosity, a tragedy. Marina, a play. Elmerick; or, Justice triumphant, a tragedy. Britannia and Batavia, a masque. Arden of Feversham, a tragedy
“When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.”
Source: Happier Than God
“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?”
“When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.”
“When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.”
“When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.”
“When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.”
“When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”
Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
“When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.”
“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.”
“When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.”
Source: Quotations from Shakespeare, a collection of passages selected and arranged by E. Routledge
“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”
“When great men die in the race of life, they continue to live because the world can still benefit from their products.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”
“When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“When great questions end, little parties begin.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
“When great warriors get fooled, the fool must become a great warrior.”
“When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.”
Source: The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War
“When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.”
“When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When greed knocks at your door, will you be strong enough to say, "No, thanks" or will you let him come in?”
“When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.”
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.”
“When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beriberi, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit.
He was gunned down in Manila in 1989”
“When greeting others, we usually ask them how they are doing, not because we sincerely care about how they are doing, but only because we want to be asked how we are doing.”
“When grief becomes madness, reality becomes a choice.”
Source: The Widow: A Psychological Thriller
“When grief comes,.... You can either let it blind you with an insane pain, a rage beyond words..Or, you can transmute it into something so profound that it takes the shape of poetry, prose, or timeless lyrics so they reveal to you, the pathway to growth..”
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her.")”
“When grief is deepest, words are fewest.”
“When grief leaves you wordless, write the pain of your heart. Someday, it will come back as an oasis in the desert.”
“When grief overtakes us,we lose all interest, reason and sense of belongingness.But it is equally true that life doesn't stop.''
Quote from- I Know You Now.”
Source: I Know You Now
“When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud.”
“When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.”
“When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.”
“When groups experience learned helplessness, the dynamics closely resemble those seen in individuals. Prolonged exposure to external forces—like systemic policies or enduring patterns of exploitation—can lead the group to internalize a belief that it has little to no control over its circumstances. With repeated failures to bring about meaningful change, collective confidence begins to fade. Over time, this belief in powerlessness results in disengagement, as the community stops participating actively or fighting to alter its conditions. Instead, they find themselves waiting for external solutions rather than taking charge of creating their own.”
Source: Rethinking Leadership in Afria: Reflections on Dependency and Learned Helplessness
“When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.”
“When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who’ve been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As long as we’re young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional eccentricity or some sort of romantic inexperience. But later on, when life shows us how much cunning, cruelty, and malice are required just to keep the body at ninety-eight point six, we catch on, we know the score, we begin to understand how much swinishness it takes to make up a past. Just take a close look at yourself and the degree of rottenness you’ve come to. There’s no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; if you’ve lived this long, it’s because you’ve squashed any poetry you had in you. Life is keeping body and soul together.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...”
“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“When growth comes,
it makes us humble.
When humility comes,
it makes us grow.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation's lower than expected, bonds go up.”
“When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.”
“When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.”
Source: On Guerrilla Warfare
“When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face”
Source: The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne
“When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.”