W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When has sounding like a completely ignorant moron ever stopped our elected officials? Never, that's when.
You're going to make mistakes, and even if you don't, we promise you will still feel stupid at one point or another. It'll pass, and no one was paying that much attention anyway. Move forward with a sprinkle of the delusion that your least favorite politician would proudly display.”
Source: Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
“When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.”
“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.”
Source: The Character of Jesus
“When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.”
“When has this world not been in a state of war? There will always be competing ideologies. There will always be people fighting for narratives and what they believe is right. Peace is a myth. An illusion.”
Source: Anant
“When has this world not been in a state of war? There will always be competing ideologies. There will always be people fighting for narratives and what they believe is right. Peace is a myth. An illusion. There is always something brewing. The world is always at war. Or at least a part of it. People become Buddhas by choice, not because of their surroundings.”
Source: Anant
“When hate is allowed to consume us, and its bitterness goes unchecked, it becomes a consuming fire that eventually takes total control and erases common sense and common decency. It becomes a self-inducing plague that will rot the very soul.”
“When hate is gone, love will follow.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“When hate is habit,
It's the hate that we gotta 86.
Our ancestors taught us cultural 69,
It's time we outgrow such nonsense archaic.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.”
“When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.”
“When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?”
Source: Carte Blanche
“When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?”
“When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offense…going against J.J. Watt”
“When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?”
“When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“When have you paused to let life in? When have you stopped scrambling to produce more social media content, stopped scrambling as though in a race to be unforgotten? Where are your pauses? Where are the spaces in your life where you let the light in? Where is your stillness? You are afraid of being forgotten, so, you scramble to impress yourself onto everything, everywhere... but what has been impressed into you?”
“When having a confrontation with an airport gate agent, you must remember they have the power to cancel your expensive airline ticket and strand you thousands of miles away from home.”
“When having a confrontation with an airport gate agent, you must remember they have the power to cancel your expensive airline ticket for any reason they want to.”
“When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.”
“When having is the impetus, then the doing is influenced by material concerns, which can never enable us to live our passion. One reason so many people are dissatisfied and unhappy with their work is that they begin by seeking to have rather than to be. When being informs our actions, self-assurance and inner strength will permeate what we do. By focusing on being, we can feel the connection to all life. Work becomes a living, moment-to-moment process in which meaning is ever-present.”
Source: True Work: The Sacred Dimension of Earning a Living
“When having lunch or dinner at a long rectangular table, I prefer to take a middle chair so that I can turn to my left or to my right to make meaningful conversation with the people in attendance. When I have been seated at the very end, it can prove to be difficult to speak, hear, and connect with everyone there. Think ahead, and whenever possible, put yourself in the middle of the action!”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“When Hazel Levesque yells "ATTACK!" and charges you with a sword, followed by an angry Minotaur, the only sensible thing to do is run.”
Source: The Court of the Dead
“When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.”
“When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.”
“When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.”
“When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country.”
“When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.”
“When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.”
“When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).”
Source: Job to Song of Solomon
“When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about he who admires him?”
“When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', what does that say about the man who admire him?”
“When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.”
Source: The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
“When he and my mom dropped
me off for college, he told me that there were three lessons
he’d learned from many decades of practicing psychiatry:
1. Don’t jump in anybody else’s drama
2. Always believe in yourself
3. Don’t believe everything you think”
Source: The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
“When he arrived at the flat, he found Keston sitting in his leather armchair wearing a quilted maroon smoking jacket. He was drinking a Bloody Mary and looked like he was about to introduce Masterpiece Theatre or a tale of the unexpected.”
Source: The Transition
“When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.”
“When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes,
I think he knew what he would do,
what he would have to do,
and he was mourning us.
He was mourning us the whole time.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.”
“When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“When he beat my mother it made me so mad.”
“When he became sober he perceived the error of his strategy, which neglected an elemental fact: he was outmatched by the Troice in every category: numbers, ships, military skills and fighting spirit.”
Source: Suldrun's Garden
“When he began to play again, then sing those first few words, Aimee felt a flutter in her stomach she wasn’t able to squelch. She wasn’t a robot, after all. And it wasn’t so bizarre to get a little fluttery over a boy as talented and hot as Miles Carlisle. Millions of girls suffered the same ailment. But how many girls stood backstage, close enough that he’d accidentally felt her up in the dark? And how many of those girls had already had their heart broken by him?”
Source: Aimee and the Heartthrob
“When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.”
“When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.”
“When he broke that long kiss, he smiled at her before kissing her hard. “So, my love, I hope that your punishment will stop you from trying another payback for a while at least?”
Laura laughed and sighed, dramatically. “Of course, it will. I never want to be punished like that again. Well, not until tonight anyway. You will be back tonight, won't you? I'm often very bad at night so you may have to do this all over again to me until I learn how to be good. Hmm, and during the day, I'm not always very good either so you'd better watch out for that too.”
“You don't make punishing you an easy task, do you? It almost seems like you enjoy being punished.”
“No, it's not that, baby. Though, your punishment was very well given. It's just that I have a very aggressive, bad gene and it makes me backslide, umm, and often frontslide too. I have learnt with you that I'm always wanting to backslide and frontslide but, as it's obviously a genetic defect, I can't really be blamed for that, now can I” (Tales from Terrigal, Book 2, WIP)”
“When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.”
Source: The Crack-up
“When he called she tried not to break down, but voice so often betrays emotion and her's wept, "He looked happy, even if I had to see his sweet little face from far away. I want him to be happy...even if his happiness is not with me."
"That's love," he said.
"Love," she repeated. "We love because we can lose."
There is pain when we have to step away and some may say "You don't care," but little do they know, we cared enough to do so...”
“When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.”