W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.”
“When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.”
Source: A Way of Being
“When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.”
Source: Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.”
“When I can’t fall sleep, I pray.”
“When I can’t fight, I need you to fight harder. When I can’t be strong anymore, I need you to be stronger." - Neela from "The Destroyer of Worlds" by Steven Seril”
Source: The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question
“When I can’t find my way, I pray to God to show me the way. And then, He creates the right pathways.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When I can’t find something, I try to remember what I put on top of it. Whatever I was looking for is usually under something else that came next.”
Source: Mission: Subhero
“When I can’t get to the sea water or to a tennis court, or out for a long, brisk walk, I work on stretch exercises at home. One that I do many times a day as I move around my apartment involves standing for a moment with my back again a wall. I dig my heels into the floor, stand straight, and place the palm of my hand between the small of my back and the wall. Keeping my chin level, I pull the crown of my head toward the ceiling. At the same time I push the small of my back toward the wall until there’s no longer room for my hand.”
Source: My Way of Life
“When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“When I can't sleep, I wait for you to come back.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.”
“When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.”
“When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.”
“When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.”
“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”
Source: Bad Girls Don't
“When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater”
“When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers.
And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.”
“When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.”
Source: The unimportance of being Oscar
“When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.”
“When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.”
“When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.”
“When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.”
“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”
“When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.”
“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
Source: The Waves
“When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.”
“When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.”
Source: Fantastical Tales - The Ultimate Collection of Sword & Sorcery Action-Adventures, Time Travel & Mythical Worlds: Conan the Barbarian Series, The ‘Kull the Conqueror
“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”
“When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.”
Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA
“When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.”
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.”
“When I carried the world entire upon my shoulders, so much of me was painfully dedicated to "fixing" myself, till finally I invited Christ into my Life and discovered that I had never been "broken" at all. EVERYTHING I thought was lacking in myself He had long ago made Whole.”
“When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.”
“When I caught up, I grabbed Jack’s arm. “What are you doing here?” “Hiding! That’s how you play the game, right? I thought the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then again, you are blond.” “So are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?”
“When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.”
“When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.”
“When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
“When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.”
“When I change my thoughts, my problems fix themselves”
“When i change what i see, i change what i feel”
“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
“When I check my phone
to remember I exist and I shake it and shake it I shake
myself, as if to clear the Etch A Sketch
of my face. If I’m dead inside
how would I know, how
would a bulb
check its own filament.”
“When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.”
“When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.”
“When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.”
“When I choose the picture of the cover of the book 'Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi', I thought, gosh, many people in Karachi may not like this image; I'm representing the city as a burning bus. But to the contrary, they loved it, because that is people's understanding of their own city, of going on with life no matter what.”
“When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.”