W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys...' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.”
“When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe he was like those stars. If I looked, he’d be there. I’d lost a lot of things in the years that led up to this point - shoes and keys and books and boyfriends - but I never lost that hope”
Source: If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.”
“When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.”
“When it came to the frying of chicken, they took pity on the captors and incorporated the seasonings and spices of Africa- garlic, melegueta pepper, cloves, black peppercorns, cardamom, nutmeg, turmeric and even curry powder. They forgave them their cruelty and presented them with what can only be described as a gift born in sorrow.
Food has the ability to move people in this manner. It can inspire bravery.
These kitchen slaves could have been beaten for this insolence, or perhaps even killed for such an act, but they served their fried fowl anyway. Not surprisingly, their captors were entranced by it. Soon southern fried chicken became a delicacy enjoyed by both cultures- it was the one point where both captors and captive found pleasure, although the Africans were only allowed to fry the discarded wings of the bird for their own meals. Despite the continued injustice, it was an inspired and blessed act of subversion.
Although born in slavery, this dish has not only brought together an entire region of people, it has transformed them. It is, as the Americans say, "democratic," and is now enjoyed by people of all walks of life and all parts of the country.”
Source: White Truffles in Winter
“When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was important than any other. In fact in the ground scheme of things, everyone was equally useless”
“When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.”
“When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.”
“When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.”
“When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.”
“When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.”
“When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it”
“When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.”
“When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.”
Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms
“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
Source: Rights of Man
“When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.”
“When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.”
“When it come to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the workers are far better informed than I was and know the many illness, disease and premature death risks of working at very high altitude that collectively are called High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).”
“When it come to working out: It would seem, the days we feel like it the least are the days we need it the most.”
“When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition.”
“When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.”
“When it comes down to it, all I have is myself and my nagging doubts.”
Source: Crusher
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control, it proliferates law of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. [...] The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed.”
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control it proliferates laws of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed.”
Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way
“When it comes down to it, the last person you think of at night is the one who truly matters to you.”
“When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place.”
“When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors”
“When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.”
“When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.”
Source: Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run
“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”
Source: All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
“When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.”
“When it comes down to it, I just want to work.”
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
“When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.”
“When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.”
“When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.”
“When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.”
“When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.”
“When it comes down to it, it’s pretty simple. Adventure is what you make it. And whether it’s the travel, the discovery or just the feeling of letting go, the only way we’ll ever find out is to get out there and do it. Enjoy the ride.”
“When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.”
“When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.”
“When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.”
Source: Roughing It
“When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.”
“When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.”
“When it comes on politics, one of the reasons I never ever run, I could never say those kinds of things about someone else, and I would never want to be the target of something like that. I don't think it's necessary.”
“When it comes on the state matter, it can be seen that under freedom population expands and the nation flourishes with great wealth.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.”
Source: Picasso
“When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.”
“When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.”