W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.”
Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions
“When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.”
“When I chose to be fearless, I chose freedom for myself.”
“When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.”
“When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives”
“When I claim more than what I can handle, I limit the opportunities for another person in my community.”
Source: More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity
“When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.”
“When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.”
“When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.”
“When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.”
“When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.”
“When I climb into bed at night and remove my cochlear implants my entire world stops moving. It is in these quiet moments with myself at night that I find restoration.”
Source: Adaptability: A True Story About Transforming Pain Into Purpose
“When I climbed the mountain, I was not afraid. What I mean is, I hadn’t learned how to be afraid of things that were only pictures in my head. What I mean is, I think I might be braver than Mother.”
Source: My Name is Monster
“When I close my eyes and envision the stars, I am placed in a trance, where me and the stars dance together.”
Source: If Stars Could Speak
“When I close my eyes and navigate far, deep inside myself, I sometimes experience the entirety of existence as just.... bhaaaaaaaaaa!”
“When I close my eyes at night I'm able to go to bed with a heart full of gratitude. When I wake up in the morning my heart is full with thankfulness and peace. I don't know what tomorrow will hold, but I do know I will live each day to the fullest.”
“When I close my eyes, I can see the world of my dream clear as day - a world where there is no man, there is no woman, there is no queer, there is only love - a world where there is no white, there is no color, there is only love - a world where there is no believer, there is no nonbeliever, there is only love - a world where there is no leader, there is no follower, there is only love. This is the civilization that we must build - a civilization that has conquered its animal nature rather being conquered by it - a civilization that is human at heart, human at thought, and human in action.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“When I close my eyes, I see more. And in my silence, I hear myself more. Well, it’s all right, as I understand more.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“When I close my eyes
I see the Universe
A vast of darkness
Where light strives to rise”
Source: The Universe in My Eyes: Existential Love and Life
“When I close my eyes I see your face, only your face. Fire rains around us, lightning strikes, and the blood of those we love threatens to be spilled at every turn and yet all I can see is you. You are the touch I crave, the scent I want to drown in, and the air that gives me life. There is nothing that can captivate me as you do. No matter the beauty, the violence, or the intrigue, you are the only thing that holds my every thought, my utter devotion, and because of that, you will also hold my life in the palm of your hands.”
Source: Sacrifice of Love
“When I close my eyes, I smile, my eyes get teary with joy, my heart races with excitement, and I get goosebumps.
I see what is yet to come, and it is incredible.
I fall to my knees and praise God for what God is about to do.
I cannot wait to show you what I see when I close my eyes.
Because I don't talk about my vision, I show it.”
“When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.”
Source: De Chirico
“When I close my eyes, watch the universe from above the ground, I'm watching all peoples running to build their lifestyle.
Fuck! So we don't need only food on our table. So we are craving for lifestyle.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! We're good in caves man, I think i born in wrong era.”
“When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within”
“When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.”
“When I closed my ears with my palms, I could hear the roaring of the ocean and closing my eyes I could see the majestic colours of the earth. Beyond the distant horizons of the skies, there was void into which I offered myself and vanished eternally!
O dear, come to me, I will whisper the profoundest secret of the universe – it is emptiness!”
Source: The Solitary Shores
“When I closed my eyes, the overview of the entire universe would get drawn inside my head. Han Su-Yeong wrote the story. Yu Jung-Hyeok lived that story. And, I read that very story. And that’s how this world barely managed to reach its completion.”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 5 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 5]
“When I closed my eyes
withdrawing myself from darkness
I saw light glowing everywhere.”
“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”
“When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.”
“When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.”
Source: Artful Words: Mary Engelbreit and the Illustrated Quote
“When I come back, if you still love me, I swear we will be happy. Right now, it is impossible. I am not able, and I do not have the right to promise anything. That is, of course, if you do not prefer anyone else, for I cannot and dare not bind you by any sort of promise.”
Source: White Nights
“When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens.”
“When I come back, the club is packed. There's hardly any standing room. Anna snagged a wooden bar stool, one of the few seats here. St. Clair stands close to her, facing her, and he smoothes the platinum stripe in her hair. She pulls him even closer by the top of his jeans, one finger tucked inside. It's an intimate gesture. I'm embarrassed to watch, but I can't look away.
He kisses her slowly and deeply. They don't care that anyone could watch. Or maybe they've forgotten they aren't alone. When they break apart, Anna says something that makes him fall into silly, boyish laughter. For some reason, that's the moment that makes me turn away. Something about their love is painful.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.”
Source: Gespräche, 1959-1962
“When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.”
“When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.”
“When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.”
“When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked.”
“When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!”
“When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.”
“When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.”
“When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.”
“When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.”
“When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'”
“When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.”
“When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.”
“When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting”
“When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.”