W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When it’s someone you know, when you can feel the span of their loss, it’s instinctive to think it costs that much to bring them back. What you did with ____ was put a part of yourself into reanimating him. In other circumstances, you could have reversed it, untethered yourself, but he took all of it with him when he was destroyed.”
There was a pause.
“You’ll recover, but it’ll leave a scar. You just have to stay grounded until your mind learns not to go there. Lucky for you, animancy should help with that.”
“Did this ever happen to you?”
He was silent for a minute. “Something similar once, but it was a long time ago.”
Source: Alchemised
“When it's sunny, why not spend some time dressing up and go out to have a walk!”
Source: Gakuen Alice, Vol. 14
“When it's time,
be sober.
When it's love,
go over.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“When it's too much...don't be afraid to take a step back and take care of you!”
“When it’s your life on the line, it’s you who has to take a firm decision on how you want to live. Following orders is for cowards.”
“When it's your season, God will turn every no into a yes.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“When it's your time you will walk right into your blessing.”
Source: You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life
“When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.”
“When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.”
Source: Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms
“When it seems easy to take shortcuts, remain honest at all times. God will ensure your victory in the long run.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.”
“When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.”
“When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“When it seems like grey and dark clouds in the sky remember, the Battle belongs to the Lord. Leaning and trusting on Him despite everything truly shows, "I am nothing without Jesus." Believing on Him that Victory is coming, oh Yes! I'm gonna see a victory for the battle belongs to Jesus.”
“When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.”
Source: Day by Day with Charles Swindoll
“When it seems like the night will last forever,
And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
When the strings of my harp to sever,
And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And dream me a dream of my own,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own.”
“When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.”
“When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.”
“When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.”
“When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory”
“When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if only there were a way to take a snapshot of this moment and place it into a mason jar next to some peach preserves. Or, you can just close your eyes and let the joy sink into your psyche. Each, in their own way will last a lifetime." - A.H. Scott 4/29/12”
“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”
Source: The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel
“When it seems you may be lost at sea, drowning in despair in the sea of emotions, it's hard to see the light in the distance. But there is a lighthouse shining from shore to shore, beckoning to come where it's safe.”
“When it (Self-management in revolutionary Spain) was not sabotaged by its enemies or hindered by the war, agricultural self-management was an unquestionable success. The land was united into one holding and cultivated over great expanses according to a general plan and the directives of agronomists. Small landowners integrated their plots with those of the community. Socialization demonstrated its superiority both over large absentee landholdings, which left a part of the land unplanted, and over smallholdings, cultivated with the use of rudimentary techniques, inadequate seeding, and without fertilizer. Production increased by 30—50 percent. The amount of cultivated land increased, working methods were improved, and human, animal, and mechanical energy used more rationally. Farming was diversified, irrigation developed, the countryside partially reforested, nurseries opened, pigsties constructed, rural technical schools created, Pilot farms set up, livestock selected and increased, and auxiliary industries set in motion, etc.”
Source: For a Libertarian Communism
“When it shall be said in 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 a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”
Source: Collected Writings
“When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!”
“When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.”
“When it snows, that's just God's way of still not existing.”
“When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.”
“When it started not to hurt, it started not to matter. She understood, perhaps, Louis thought, how easy it would be to let Gage become dead.”
Source: Pet Sematary
“When it starts out, life is an equation that almost solely consists of the unknown. Of unlimited options and infinite promise That's why at first it feels interesting, the unknown and the unforeseen make it exciting. All the first times and the new discoveries, the adventures and the surprising element that is immanent in the unfamiliar.”
Source: The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in
“When it starts out, life is an equation that almost solely consists of unknown. Inherent in it: unlimited options, Infinite promise.”
Source: The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in
“When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.”
“When it still wasn't enough, she dug deeper, reaching into her heart and tapping into that raw emotional well, where everything burned with a new kind of heat. It seared every thought as she gathered up the force of it, erupting into sparks as she blasted it into [his] consciousness--and the blue wind fanned the sparks into flames.”
Source: Nightfall
“When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
[When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]”
“When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.”
Source: In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
“When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy”
Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“When it turns out that the greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but gibberish, it turns out that the greatest intellectual virtue is not deductive brilliance or factual erudition, but common sense. When it turns out that the greatest enemy of decency is not hatred, but arbitrariness, it turns out that the greatest moral virtue is not kindness or mercy, but perseverance. When it turns out that the greatest enemy of good taste is not vulgarity, but ostentation, it turns out that the greatest aesthetic virtue is not elegance or refinement, but moderation. And when it turns out that the greatest enemy of civilization is not barbarity, but infantilism, it turns out that the greatest cultural virtue is not sophistication, but integrity.”
“When it walks like a saint, and quacks like a saint- it's a quacking saint." -Della”
“When it warms your heart, make you smile, and stare a little longer. It’s called beauty and it sure is beautiful.”
“When it was announced that Michael Keaton was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When they announced that Val Kilmer was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When it was announced that George Clooney was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When it was announced that Christian Bale was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. And everyone was mad about Ben Affleck. So every single incarnation, people are going to be mad; you just can't do anything about it.”
“When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for like a week. More people than I ever thought had heard of it. Listen, people go to Build-a-Bear and make your Miles Morales Build-a-Bears and tell everybody that's what we want!”
“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
Source: The complete plays of Sean O&Casey. 3. Purple dust. Red roses for me. Hall of healing
“When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light traveling so far through the loneliest of spaces to get here, to come so far. It was like we were the only two people in the world.”
Source: Night Film
“When it was first optioned, I was told that the chances of The Basic Eight becoming a film were slim because no one was making teen movies, and then later, I was told that the chances were slim because there were so many teen movies, and then I was later told that the chances were slim because teen films were over. I'm not sure when the magic window of opportunity was, but perhaps it's still on the horizon.”
“When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.”
“When it was Hearts turn, she related a vision she had: that River hadn't wanted to be born, preferring to stay with God in heaven. God had convinced him to go, and they haggled over how long, settling on twenty-three years.”
Source: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
“When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.”
Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“When it was her turn to say good-bye, Aryal said, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Niniane opened and closed her mouth. She said, "I have no idea how to respond to that.”
Source: Storm's Heart