W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.”
“When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.”
“When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.”
“When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.”
“When I am around her, I am quick to laugh and smile. She makes me forget about my loneliness and the emptiness inside of me, just for a little while.”
Source: Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).
“When I am around old people,
they think I am too foolish.
When I am around young people,
they think I am too intelligent.
When I am around learned people,
they think I am too simple.
When I am around educated people,
they think I am too wise.
When I am around proud people,
they think I am too weak.
When I am around mighty people,
they think I am too meek.
When I am around cowardly people,
they think I am too reckless.
When I am around bold people,
they think I am too brave.
When I am around modest people,
they think I am too arrogant.
When I am around eminent people,
they think I am too humble.
When I am around virtuous people,
they think I am too complacent.
When I am around immoral people,
they think I am too narrow.”
“When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.”
“When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature.”
“When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.”
“When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.”
“When I am asked why I have left England, I say that I am in "Brexile". It goes down well.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.”
“When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.”
“When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“When I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He bossed up. No negative connotation behind ‘bossed up.’ But lots of negative connotation behind being a bitch. [...] When you’re a girl, you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super sweet and you have to be sexy and you have to be this, you have to be that, and you have to be nice. It’s like, I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human being.”
“When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.”
“When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.”
“When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.”
“When I am at my work each day
In the fields so fresh and green
I often think of riches and the way things might have been
But believe me when I tell you when I get home each day
I'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay”
“When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.”
“When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.”
“When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.”
“When I am at school, I smile to block the hurt.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“When I am at school, I smile to block the hurt. When I am with my family I can always be myself.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“When I am at war with myself, I ride the wave; even if no one else is there to watch me catch it.”
“When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
Source: Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
Source: Les Essais
“When I am awake, I sleep, but when I dream I come to life.”
“When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world”
Source: Odd Hours: An Odd Thomas Novel
“When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.”
“When I am being bullied, my teachers never listen. They always think I am making it up—or they will try to sugar-coat the situation. They fail to realize that children have feelings too, and we deserve to be heard.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.”
“When I am brave enough to say goodbye
I'll use the wings you gave me
and away I'll fly”
“When I am carrying an object such as a ruler, and moving fast compared to you, my ruler will be measured by you to be smaller than it is for me. I might measure it to be 10 cm, say:
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But to you, it might appear to be merely 6 cm:
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Surely, this is an illusion, you might say, because how could the same object have two different lengths? The atoms can’t be compressed together for you, but not for me.
Once again, we return to the question of what is “real.” If every measurement you can perform on my ruler tells you it is 6 cm long, then it is 6 cm long. “Length” is not an abstract quantity but requires a measurement. Since measurement is observer dependent, so is length. To see this is possible while illuminating another of relativity’s slippery catch-22s, consider one of my favorite examples.
Say I have a car that is twelve feet long, and you have a garage that is eight feet deep. My car will clearly not fit in your garage:
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But, relativity implies that if I am driving fast, you will measure my car to be only, say, six feet long, and so it should fit in your garage, at least
while the car is moving:
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However, let’s view this from my vantage point. For me, my car is twelve feet long, and your garage is moving toward me fast, and it now is
measured by me to be not eight feet deep, but rather four feet deep:
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Thus, my car clearly cannot fit in your garage.
So which is true? Clearly my car cannot both be inside the garage and not inside the garage. Or can it?
Let’s first consider your vantage point, and imagine that you have fixed big doors on the front of your garage and the back of your garage. So that I don’t get killed while driving into it, you perform the following. You have the back door closed but open the front door so my car can drive in. When it is inside, you close the front door:
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However, you then quickly open the back door before the front of my car crashes, letting me safely drive out the back:
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Thus, you have demonstrated that my car was inside your garage, which of course it was, because it is small enough to fit in it.
However, remember that, for me, the time ordering of distant events can be different. Here is what I will observe.
I will see your tiny garage heading toward me, and I will see you open the front door of the garage in time for the front of my car to pass through.
I will then see you kindly open the back door before I crash:
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After that, and after the back of my car is inside the garage, I will see
you close the front door of your garage:
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As will be clear to me, my car was never inside your garage with both doors closed at the same time because that is impossible. Your garage is
too small.
“Reality” for each of us is simply based on what we can measure. In my frame the car is bigger than the garage. In your frame the garage is bigger than my car. Period. The point is that we can only be in one place at one time, and reality where we are is unambiguous. But what we infer about the real world in other places is based on remote measurements, which are
observer dependent.”
Source: The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
“When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.”
“When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.”
“When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”
“When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.”
“When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.”
“When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.”
“When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways.”
“When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.”
“When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.”
“When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.”
“When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.”