W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.”
Source: The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle
“When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'”
“When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.”
“When guys try to get a good job and make a lot of money, it's so that they can find a good mate, because they know women like guys with money. Big tits are to men, what big wallets are to women. A sexy woman can have almost any man she wants. And a rich guy can have almost any woman he wants.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“When Gwyneth Paltrow wore a dress of ours, that was probably our number one best seller besides when the lovely Mrs. [Michelle] Obama wore our dress.”
“When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.”
“When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“When had art become something to enhance an experience, rather than the point of the whole experience? When had art become an accessory on the way towards a rich lifestyle, instead of being the goal itself?”
Source: You Complete the Masterpiece: A Novel
“When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.”
Source: Champion: A Legend Novel
“When had her son become a whole person, with a whole life she didn't understand, a job that didn't make sense to her? It was like children woke up one day as people. How did that happen?”
Source: Mother Land
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”
Source: The Bleeders
“When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess.”
Source: First Execution
“When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?”
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t want to seem too smart or too eager?”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“When had time grown such rapid and vigorous wings? The day already felt as if it were slipping away and she had little hope of catching it.”
Source: One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
“When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
“When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.”
“When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation”
“When Hammett turns to the respectable world, the world of respectable society, of affluence and influence, of open personal and political power, he finds only more of the same. The respectability of respectable American society is as much a fiction and a fraud as the phony respectable society manufactured by the criminals. Indeed, he unwaveringly represents the world of crime as a reproduction in both structure and detail of the modern capitalist society it depends on, preys off, and is part of. He not only continually juxtaposes and connects the ambiguously fictional worlds of art and writing with the fraudulently fictional worlds of society; he connects them, juxtaposes them, and sees them in dizzying and baffling interaction... It is into this bottomlessly equivocal, endlessly fraudulent and brutally acquisitive world that Hammett precipitates the Op.”
Source: The Continental Op
“When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic, unorganized criminal act. And I saw very little difference in what we were doing than the royals and courtiers were doing in the midst of cities, and of calling what they were doing legal and legitimate.”
Source: Captain Skull: From the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley
“When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.”
“When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.”
“When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.”
“When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.”
“When Hannah Hudson finds herself abandoned on a Rocky Mountain ranch, even a lottery win doesn’t change her bad-luck life.”
Source: Colorado Takedown
“When Hannah’s life hangs in the balance, is Trace willing to face his greatest fear to rescue the woman he loves?”
Source: Colorado Takedown
“When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.”
Source: Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
“When happiness comes your way don’t worry about how long it will last, but save those
moments in your heart and they will last all your life.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.”
“When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.”
Source: The William James Reader
“When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.”
“when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.”
Source: Watermelon
“When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.”
Source: The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.”
Source: Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
“When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.”
“When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.”
“When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."”
“When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.”
“When Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling published the piece "TERF Wars" on her blog in the summer of 2020, she specifically mentioned her fear that many transgender men are actually Autistic girls who weren't conventionally feminine, and have been influenced by transactivists on the internet into identifying out of womanhood. In presenting herself as defending disabled "girls," she argued for restricting young trans Autistic people's ability to self-identity and access necessary services and health care.
Rowling's perspective (which she shares with many gender critical folks) is deeply dehumanising to both the trans and Autistic communities.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.”
“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”
“When has a civilian ever stopped a mass shooting with an AR-15? An AR-15 is a perfect weapon for mass murderers -- not so much for self-defense. Would you bring an AR-15 along on a date? To your place of work? To the movies? If not, how can owning an AR-15 save your life in the event of a mass shooting? Why does the NRA keep telling us we need semi-automatic rifles for self-defense? Whose side are they really on?”
“When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.”
“When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?”
Source: Oathbringer
“When has any part of this ever been safe? “Let’s just get on with it.”, FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“When has faith ever been about feelings?”
Source: Deadly Intent
“When has life listened to anyone?
It goes on at its own pace...
Limping, when we wish it should run,
And when calm desired, sprinting as in a race…”
“When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.”