W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.”
“When it becomes above normal, the happiness derived from pudgal (non-Self) feels like misery.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“When it becomes acceptable to kill another man or woman, childhood dies.” whispered Laurence. “When it becomes acceptable to kill a child…humanity dies.”
Source: Eye of Ra
“When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.”
“When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.”
Source: Prayer
“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”
“When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.”
“When it becomes hard to move on because of a closed door, look up to God. He will give you the strength to soar.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”
“When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”
“When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.”
Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe
“When it begins to feel like too much effort, it's probably not worth the effort and it's totally okay to quit, give up or give in at will.”
“When it blossoms it is like a team but when it fades away it is worse than an enemy.'
(Misunderstandings in our friendships and relationships)”
“When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.”
“When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.”
“When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.”
“When it came down to it, he shut me out and moved on with his life while my whole world shifted and then spun onto a different axis.”
“When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.”
Source: About a Boy
“When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.”
“When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.”
Source: The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane
“When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.”
“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
“When it came time for me to go to bed, my mother beckoned me to her, and kissed me, and whispered, "I know I'll never have another anxious moment with my own dear laddie." I pondered these words before I went to sleep. How could I reconcile this motherliness with the screeching fury who had pursued me around the kitchen with a whip, flogging me until she was gorged with — what? Vengeance? What was it? Once, when I was in my thirties and reading Freud for the first time, I thought I knew. I am not so sure I know now. But what I knew then was that nobody— not even my mother— was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.”
Source: Fifth business
“When it came time for me to leave you, it felt to you like I had taken your love away with me. You think your love went with me but it did not. Feel it now. Feel the love you have for me. It is there, isn’t it? It is there inside your heart. It is there because it is YOURS. It is your love for me. Because it is yours, no one can ever take it away from you. It is your love for me and mine for you that hold us together like glue through everything, through good times and bad, through life and through death.”
Source: Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
“When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.”
“When it came time to build a tabernacle, the Israelite women brought all their mirrors to Moses so he could use them to make God's building more beautiful. (Exodus 38:8.) They were far more interested in enjoying God's glory than reflecting on their own images.”
Source: More Beautiful You: A Study in True Beauty
“When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.”
“When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.”
“When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.”
“When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.”
“When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.”
“When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.”
“When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.”
Source: The Darkest Minds
“When it came to all around ring generalship, Benny Valgar was on a par with Benny Leonard, though Leonard packed the better punch”
“When it came to being a legend, all it took was one person to recognize that you were epic. That was it.”
Source: Lover Unveiled
“When it came to being
she said be tender and tough at once
you need to be vulnerable to live fully
but rough enough to survive it all”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“When it came to darkness, you could succumb and let it consume you…or you could invade it with light of your own.”
Source: The Lost Melody
“When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.”
“When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.”
“When it came to her, I was like an addict. And I had zero desire to kick my habit."-Ronan”
Source: Perfectly Scripted
“When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.”
Source: Inkheart
“When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.”
“When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.”
“When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.”
Source: Russian Holiday
“When it came to Mel, she just wanted.”
Source: Strength Check
“When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.”
“When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.”
“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.”
Source: Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
“When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.”