W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
“When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.”
“When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.”
“When liberty exists, there is opportunity.
When liberty matures, there is productivity.
When liberty expands, there is responsibility.
When liberty succeeds, there is exceptionality.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“When liberty is branded terrorism,
And terrorism is declared self defense,
Ceasefire is vetoed as taboo,
Geopolitics is fancy talk for arms race.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.”
“When liberty, reason and equality are threatened in one nation, it's a threat to the very fabric of civilization.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“When liberty returns, I will return.”
“When Lies Are At Work, Truth Patiently Awaits Its Turn.”
“When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.”
“When life allows you to see the marriage between terror and joy, you are ready for abundance.”
Source: Ordesa
“When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.”
“When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.”
Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
“When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you know you'd give anything to make your problems go away. Then, desperate and eager, you will come to Unicorn Lane, seeking salvation in its magics and secrets. You'll do anything, pay any price. Unicorn Lane will take you in, shroud you in its power, fix your problems, and exact its price. And then you will learn what 'anything' really means.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“When life beats you down, NEVER give up.”
“When life becomes a bit unstable grab a really cute helmet that way if you slip and fall you will be doing it with style!”
“When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.”
Source: In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
“When life becomes complicated, summon the courage to confront it from a position that inspires progress.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“When life becomes difficult. the only source of strength we have is love. Love of others, love of self, love of life in its entirety.”
Source: The Beautiful
“When life becomes hard, you will never like what your life is to be in the next day unless you love yourself for real.”
“When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you”
“When life becomes scattered and completely a faction of what it once was, and everything you thought was once true, seems false. Your heart feels empty, as it leaves your chest. Your mind is blank. Your emotions become so overwhelming you can hardly speak. You’re thinking you have a broken heart when in reality you heart, body and soul are rearranging your inner thoughts, feelings and the way you’re going to except things from now on. You’ll become stronger then you ever imagined. All you need is time. Give yourself time.”
“When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant”
“When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol...”
Source: Pulling Down Satanic Strongholds
“when life bids goodbye
do dreams gently fade
or anguish prevails
in a restless grave”
Source: Dining with the Enemy
“When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you’re stronger than before.”
Source: The Divinity Bureau
“when life brings agony,rejoice for tomorrow is invisible”
“When life brings hardships beyond our understanding, it's not up to us to look for the silver lining. We are the silver lining. We become God's well-tuned instruments of peace, His gift to one another, each of us a miracle, according to His strange and wonderful plan.”
Source: Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing
“When life brings reasons for sorrow, answer with even more reasons to smile.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.”
“When life closes a door, God opens a window.”
“When life corners you, you get a great opportunity because life, thinking it has won, relaxes, lowers its guard, and that's the perfect time to strike back!”
“When life could end at any moment in the point of a German bayonet, never allow middle-class morality to get in the way of a good romp with a married ex-convict in tweed.”
Source: The Alice Network
“When life crumbles to pieces, glue doesn't always fix it.”
“When life decides to surprise you,
When your own judgement defies you,
When logic and reason aren't explaining
things around you.
Breathe deep in hope,
hold on to the faith inside you
and just trust the love that
surrounds you.”
“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death”
“When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.”
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.”
“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”
Source: When Demons Walk
“When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.”
“When life feels opaque
as if the threads are snared
along a cliff of disbelief
and the music of sunlight
can’t discover you,
let solitude welcome you.”
Source: My Dear, Love Hasn't Forgotten You
“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you're standing under the sky.”
“When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.”
“When life gets dark, that's when stars appear among us. Shine bright, beautiful ones. Throw light from your burning hearts.”
“When life gets difficult and you get stressed out from the drama, the first person you should get closer to is the person you're in-love with. If you, instead, push them away, then you're not really in-love with that person.”