W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.”
“When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.”
“When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.”
“When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.”
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.”
“When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!”
“When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.”
“When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...”
“When I love, I love hard. You’re stuck with me for good. In your news report, you didn’t say what happened at the end of the bumpy ride. You didn’t say what it takes to break the curse. But I know. True Love. the kind that doesn’t go away because of a few disasters along the way. I love you, Melissa.”
Source: The Fireman Who Loved Me
“When I love, I love unconditionally. When I leave, I leave under conditions.”
“When I love, I love with everything within me.”
Seeing him with his child, this was obvious. Did he mean…yes, he meant exactly what he said, and it was like he wanted her to know it went much deeper than only with his child. That whatever he loved, he loved with everything inside of him. “I sense that about you, Tristan. Your actions and words are heartfelt.”
Source: Cowboy Boss and his Destiny
“when i love, it’s the littlest things about someone that can make a complete mess of me… details, i love madly in details.”
“When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.”
“When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date.”
“When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.”
“When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.”
“When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.”
“When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!”
Source: When I Loved Myself Enough
“When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.”
Source: When I Loved Myself Enough
“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”
Source: When I Loved Myself Enough
“When I’m able to take a step back, I realize that I’ve created my own prison. I physically cannot take on any more responsibilities. There’s no room to do more, and I’m afraid of what that means for my addiction. I want so much to quit and walk away, but I don’t know that I have the courage to give it all up. Recovering alcoholics talk about needing to hit rock bottom before they are able to climb out. The paradox for the workaholic is that rock bottom is the top of whatever profession they’re in.”
“When I'm around you," he says softly, his eyes never leaving mine, "I think maybe my heart can be fixed someday.”
Source: Flirt
“When I’m around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I’ve never even tasted alcohol before, but I’m sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that’s the case, I’m already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you.”.”
“When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them.”
Source: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
“When I'm around you, it's like every dream I've ever had is standing right in front of me.”
Source: Behind the Strings
“When I’m asked what the number-one tip for better sex is, I always say conscious breathing. By controlling your breath, you also control the oxygen in your bloodstream. Highly oxygenated blood gives our bodies more energy and helps our organs function to their highest potential. Just learning how to do one very simple specific breathing technique—like Breath of Fire or synchronized breathing with your partner—during sex and at climax can significantly improve your pleasure in the moment.”
Source: Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
“When I’m asked where I come from I always freeze in the moment because I can talk for days about my rich heritage yet the person who asked the question barely wants two syllables”
“When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?”
Source: A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
“When I’m away from you I am lost.
But when I’m with you, I am lost in you.”
Source: Forgive Me
“When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in”
Source: World Without End
“When I'm connecting with a higher source through meditation, I am happy. Life flows. Miraculous things happen. On the other hand, when I am blocking, resisting, or any part of me is criticizing the process by which connection happens for me, I feel deep discontent.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“When I’m consumed by soil and my body is rotting, the maggots will search my skull for a taste of who I once was. Only they’ll find you instead, imprinted in my being, your fingerprints at the base of my skull. You became my soul, my heart, the very marrow in my bones. Your DNA became so much a part of me that not even nature can pry us apart.”
Source: The Executioner Prince
“When I'm depressed I'll lie to myself to make me feel better. But really, it's ok, because depression only sometimes gets the best of me.”
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.”
“When I'm dreaming, the French speak German.”
“When I'm filming, I get up at 5 A.M. and have a piece of fruit and a cup of tea. At 6:30, I eat an egg and bacon or sausage. […] I eat a light lunch. Sometimes a small minute steak with two small cherry tomatoes. Sometimes chicken—boiled, not broiled. I've always found roasted or barbecued chicken incredibly dry. My chicken is boiled with carrots, celery, onions, kosher salt and pepper, and bay leaf, and it's always moist and delicious. Sometimes I'll have some more bacon late in the afternoon. […] I eat for energy, and that means plenty of protein.”
Source: My Way of Life
“When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“When I’m given a role, the first thing I do is read the play over and over again. I scour the script and write down everything the character says about himself and everything that everyone else says about him. I immerse myself in my character and imagine what it might be like to be that person.
When I played Cassio in Othello I imagined what it would be like to be a lieutenant in the Venetian navy in 1604. I sat down with Ewan McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor and together we decided that Othello, Iago and Cassio had soldiery in their bones.
I took from the script that Cassio was talented and ambitious, with no emotional or physical guard - and that’s how I played the part.
For me, acting is about recreating the circumstances that would make me feel how my character is feeling. In the dressing room, I practise recreating those circumstances in my head and I try to not get in the way of myself. For example, in act two of Othello, when Cassio is manipulated to fight Roderigo and loses his rank, some nights I would burst into tears; other nights I wouldn’t but I would still feel the same emotion, night after night. Just as in life, the way we respond to catastrophe or death will be different every time because the process is unconscious.
By comparison, in Chekhov’s Ivanov I played the young doctor, Lvov. Lvov was described as “a prig and a bigot … uprightness in boots … tiresome … completely sincere”. His emotions were locked away. I worked around the key phrase: “Forgive me, I’m going to tell you plainly.”
I practised speaking gravely and sincerely without emotion and I actually noticed how that carried over into my personal life: when I played the open-hearted Cassio, I felt really free; when I played the pent-up Lvov, I felt a real need to release myself from the shackles of that character.
It’s exhilarating to act out the emotions of a character - it’s a bit like being a child again. You flex the same muscles that you did when you pretended to be a cowboy or a policeman: acting is a grown-up version of that with more subtlety and detail. You’re responding with real emotions to imaginary situations. When I’m in a production I never have a day when I haven’t laughed, cried or screamed. There are times when I wake up stiff from emotional exhaustion.
Film is a much more intimate and thoughtful medium than theatre because of the proximity of the camera. The camera can read your thoughts. On stage, if you have a moment of vulnerability you can hide it from the other actors; on film, the camera will see you feel that emotion and try to suppress it. Similarly, if you’re pretending to feel something that isn’t there, it won’t be believable.”
“When I’m gone, time won’t change. It will pass the way it always has. I’ve seen it happen. People always move on. You will find your mate. You will move on then I’ll be nothing but a memory, but I will never forget you. I will always love you for you have drawn emotions in me no other has in two thousand years. I will live with the memory of you in my heart because nothing can erase you from within me. You have forever changed me. You’ve taught me what it’s like to truly love.”
Source: Heavenly Desire
“When I'm in a couple, I feel I'm disappearing, dying - losing my mind.”
“When I'm in a library, any library, I have the sense of being translated into a purely verbal dimension by a conjuring trick I've never quite understood. I know that my full, true story is there, somewhere on the shelves, and all I need is time and the chance to find it. I never do. My story remains elusive because it is never the definitive story.”
Source: Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
“When I’m in, I’m all in. I’m not walking away from this.”
Source: Falling For His Mate
“When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.”
Source: Wife 22
“When I'm inside you, buried so deep I'm the only thing that exists in your world, that's when I'm not going to go slow. It's going to be fast and hard because I'm going to lose my mind.”
Source: Take a Risk Bundle
“When I'm interested in a thing, I want to know about that thing. Extensively.”
Source: Foolish Hearts
“When I'm lost, you light the way.
When I'm down, you lift me up.
My life is full because of you.
Friend. Lover. Wife. Beautiful mother.
A partner in this life we're building.
When you need me, I'll be there to hold you.
Support you. Encourage you.
Find you when you're lost.
Lift you up when you're down.
No obstacles are too hard for us to conquer together.
I am forever and always yours.”
Source: 10 Signs You Need to Grovel
“When I'm not scouring through the backstreets of every city in the state, I keep an eye on the girl. My girl.”
Source: Brighter Than the Sun
“When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. But, for now, she'd had enough of darkness.”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky