W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.”
“When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.”
“When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.”
Source: The Most of George Burns
“When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.”
“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”
“When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.”
“When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.”
Source: Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella
“When Jael questioned her about what the whales said, Eroica usually replied, "They love me. They love the sea. They love each other. They love God." Always love was their message, and Jael knew her daughter was telling the truth as she heard it. Love was the truth, whether it came from a whale, a human, or God in heaven.”
Source: Magdalena's Demons
“When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.”
“When James opens the door, no one's there. He blinks, poking his head out and peering around, but the street is quiet, and the stars are shining. He waits for something, anything, but there's nothing. No sign of anyone being there at all.
Perhaps it was the echo of a knock from another life, but in this one, James shrugs, shuts the door, and goes back inside to the love that's waiting on him inside.”
“When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.”
“When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“When Japanese people did gamman and tried to endure that which cannot be endured, they were harming themselves. "It is better," Maruko said, "to speak up and to express oneself. We must learn to do this in Japan.”
Source: Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
“When Japanese went to Hawaii they would go straight and buy the same thing that they would buy in Japan. They just got it cheaper, which they liked. And so they would still eat the red bean ice cream or the green tea ice cream, but they didn't really take advantage of the variety and it wasn't clear that they cared.”
“When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.”
Source: Untold
“When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“When Jasmine woke that morning she'd been dreaming of breakfast. Not cornflakes or melba toast, skim milk and a sorry slice of apple. No, Jasmine was elbow deep in creamy oatmeal slathered with brown sugar and hot cream. Next, a plate of eggs Sardou: poached eggs nestled sweetly in the baby-smooth bottoms of artichokes and napped with a blushing spiced hollandaise sauce. Jasmine stared up at the ceiling, her mouth a swamp of saliva as she mentally mopped the rest of the hollandaise sauce with a crust of crusty French bread before taking a sip of nutty chicory coffee and reaching for a freshly fried beignet so covered with powdered sugar it made her sneeze.”
Source: How to Cook a Tart
“When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings”
“When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.”
“When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.”
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”
“When jealousy is allowed to fester, it hands its host a murderer and a murderer’s sword. Such that it predisposes the host to becoming a murderer of a victim that maybe or may not be guilty as charged.”
“When jealousy is mixed with self-frustration, the mental peace turns disastrous.”
“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.”
Source: Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
“When jealousy surges through thy heart
Let not thy foolish tongue take part.
With my two arms, I do not aspire to touch the sky.
So, like a child after its mother, I flutter.
Now lust shakes my soul,
A wind on the mountain overwhelming the oaks.
I know not what to do: I have two minds.
Face me, my dear one and unveil the grace in your eyes.
And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.
I love refinement and for me
Love has the splendor and beauty of the morning star.
I yearn and I seek.
To you, fair maidens, my mind does not change.”
Source: The Book of the Goddess
“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame Santeuil had not the courage to refuse. But, as soon as Jean's uncle had gone home, she threw them away, saying that they already had more than enough in the way of luggage. And then Jean cried because he had been separated from the darling creatures which he would have liked to take with him to Paris, and because of his mother's naughtiness.”
Source: Jean Santeuil
“When Jean Piaget lectured in the United States, he was frequently asked whether the rate at which children attained his cognitive stages could be accelerated—in other words, whether you could train your child to be "ahead" of other children. Piaget was bewildered by the question. In his view of development, being "ahead" or "behind" anyone else was meaningless. But he got the question often enough that he came to associate it with a particular worldview: he called it "the American Question.”
Source: Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
“When Jeb Bush came on the shows and couldn't answer questions about Iraq, and when he looked like he was unsteady, it absolutely solidified the concerns that they had had all along about his skills.”
“When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."”
“When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.”
“When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order”
“When Jesus blesses what we have given him, earth's limitations are replaced by heaven's possibilities.”
Source: 7 ROOMS OF THE Lord's Prayer
“When Jesus calls us to take His yoke, when He invites us to find rest through submission, He is not satisfying some warped need for power or His own sense of pride. He is calling us to safety. The safety that comes from belonging to Him. The safety that comes from being tamed.”
Source: Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
“When Jesus came the first time, He received blasphemous false accusations from the world, He was denied, abandoned, mocked, arrested, and bound. During his second coming He will come as a Judge to all the people the living and the dead, to destroy sin and death and to punish the wicked and Satan.”
“When Jesus came to earth, though, he clearly preached a different message. He often communicated messages that went against how society and culture teach us to operate.”
Source: I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
“When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide
“When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.”
“When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.”
“When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
unconverted church members.”
“When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.”
“When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.”
Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes
“When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”
“When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.”
“When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.”
“When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.”
“When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.”