W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
“When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.”
“When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.”
“When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the glory of God, remembering the God Who feeds us, and above all His incorruptible food, His Body and Blood, that out of love He has given Himself to us in food and drink, remembering also the holy word of the Gospel.”
“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.”
“When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.”
“When hurt holds your gaze, shadows linger. When the lesson humbles and shapes your heart, light gently unfolds, and you are led into deeper grace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When husband and wife are united, they are strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.”
“When husband and wife fights, the door cries.”
“When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.”
“When Huy was young, his classmates called him "wee wee” because of an unfortunate linguistic coincidence that shaped the part of him that constructs identity beneath a title. When he dwelled on the identity that his name began constructing for him in childhood, a loud American Schoolyard memory of boys and girls yelling "wee wee" at him was dominant, within a mental file full of similar confusion that came back to him as obnoxious, repetitive shaming.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write.
But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When I
die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral”
Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems
“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”
“When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.”
“When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.”
“When I accepted rejection, I realized how easy it is to be ok with some people not liking you. It's not a shame.”
“When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.”
“When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..”
“When I ache, when I'm tired or just lonely living in the town on my own, I know I have to keep on going. I walk into my theater and see my stage which still calls out to me and pleads with me, "Use me. Create for me." It's there ready to offer itself for more creatively [sic]. It is up to me to use it again. My theater says to me, "Take me. Do something with me. I'm ready for the challenge. Give me something to live for; something to look forward to.”
Source: To Dance on Sands: The Life And Art of Death Valley's Marta Becket
“When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.”
“When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.”
“When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.”
Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir
“When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.”
“When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.”
“When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.”
“When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.”
“When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.”
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“When I admit my own imperfections, it doesn't mean I am a bad person.”
“When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice I'd been given over the years was.
And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman. I was writing a comic that people loved and were taking seriously. King had like Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw a madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this:
"This is really great. You should enjoy it."
And I didn't. Best advice I got that I ignored. Instead I worried about it. I worried about the next deadline, the next idea, the next story. There wasn't a moment for the next fourteen or fifteen years that I wasn't writing something in my head, or wondering about it. And I didn't stop and look around and go, This is really fun. I wish I'd enjoyed it more. It's been an amazing ride. But there were parts of the ride I missed, because I was too worried about things going wrong, about what came next, to enjoy the bit I was on.
That was the hardest lesson for me, I think: to let go and enjoy the ride, because the ride takes you to some remarkable and unexpected places.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.”
“When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good guest, I have returned to Eden, where everything I need is provided for me, including companionship and a benevolent deity at my shoulder serving me and protecting me. The concept of paradise may be backward-looking but the concept of heaven is anticipatory. Perhaps this is what heaven will be like? A great table of oak worn smooth with age and candle wax; a dimly lit room, a quartet of angels playing Sarah Vaughan in the corner; this blissful throb of quiet, intelligent conversation; bubbling pots and aromatic stews that no one seems to have worked to prepare; and you - you have nothing to worry about, not now, not here, not for all eternity. Leave it all behind at the threshold, forget everything, for here in heaven, you are my guest.”
“When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.”
“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
Source: Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness
“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.”
Source: Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness
“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use.”
“When I am all alone
Envy me most,
Then my thoughts flutter round me
In a glimmering host;
Some dressed in silver,
Some dressed in white,
Each like a taper
Blossoming light;
Most of them merry,
Some of them grave,
Each of them lithe
As willows that wave;
Some bearing violets,
Some bearing bay,
One with a burning rose
Hidden away–
When I am all alone
Envy me then,
For I have better friends
Than women and men.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“When I am all alone, I often, very often, say your name aloud…”
“When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer.”
Source: Scandalabra
“When I am alone I am happy.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.”
“When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.”
“When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.”