W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.”
“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”
Source: Psalm at Journey's End
“When night has fallen so hard
and you just can’t find your way,
follow the sound of my voice
back to the shelter of my arms.
When the cruelty of this world
blinds you to all your beauty,
see yourself through my eyes
and witness your magnificence.
When your heart lies broken
in a thousand shattered pieces,
let me gather all of them up,
and mend them with my love.”
Source: The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry
“When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.”
Source: Beauties of Festus
“When night it is… is the sun gone?”
Source: Star Wars, Vol. 6: Quests of the Force
“When nighttime came around, it was so dark and scary.
The boy wished for light, but he didn’t call for the magician this time.
He remembered the secret of magic, and he tried not to be afraid!
He tried to love the night, so quiet and so full of mystery.
He walked to the window — without fear.
Then, he pulled back the curtain and he saw them shining:
Huge stars.
Beautiful!
Breathtaking!
The darkness, as if by magic, was no longer empty.”
“When nighttime came, the rocking chairs creaked. Waves lulled the girl and her cottage to sleep.”
“When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?”
“When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.”
“When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.”
“When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.”
“When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.”
“When no Character is tolerated,instead just the Obedience, the Truth leaves and the Lie come”
Source: Jugend ohne Gott
“When no discriminating thoughts arise,
the old mind ceases to exist.
When thought objects vanish,
the thinking-subject vanishes,
as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.
Things are objects because of the subject;
the mind is such because of things.
Understand the relativity of these two
and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.
In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable
and each contains in itself the whole world.
If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine
you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.”
“When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
“When no one aids you,
you build your own legs.”
Source: Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
“When no one cares about you, just look at yourself in mirror”
“When no one else believes in you, you gotta depend on what your inner eye is focusing on. Showing up for yourself causes the universe to adjust to your vision.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“When no one else signs me.”
“When no one has paved the way before you, trampled the path you want to travel, there is nothing to it but to do it yourself.”
Source: Lovers Dreamers Fighters
“When no one is left around you who knows something you don't know, you desperately start searching for someone who will tell you something you don't know!”
“When no one is looking,
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”
“When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.”
“When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself.
Certainly no one is watching after her, to the point where she's now calling herself M. Earth, using her first initial only, like the early women writers who did not want their work to be automatically dismissed because of their gender disadvantage. Though she is grand, M. Earth is feeling, perhaps, overly feminine, and therefore vulnerable. Don't even mention the word Gaia; it's such a projection! She thinks she could benefit from a more macho profile, a little kick-ass to make her point. Perhaps a little masculine detachment would be helpful, or a thicker skin. Because, frankly, she's been trampled, poisoned, stripped bare, robbed blind, and blamed for just about everything that's come down the pike. And like all mothers, everyone just assumes she'll always be there for them with open, loving arms, and a cup of hot cocoa. That it will be her pleasure to feed them, lick their wounds, and clean a load or two of their dirty laundry. She's looking for a little more respect.”
Source: Donny and Ursula Save the World
“When no one is watching, saints become devils.”
Source: TWO-FACED
“When no one is watching, live as if someone is.”
Source: The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life
“When no one loves you, you have to pretend that everyone loves you.”
“When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some credence in some stranger who just tweeted something exciting, if unproven. ... When someone whispers, “Trust no one,” they are inevitably also saying, “Trust me.”
Source: Trust: America's Best Chance
“When no one stands up to protect you, you stop expecting them to, it takes a toll. I was loosing my grip on sanity [...] I didn't know where to turn or who to turn to.”
Source: Brave
“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
Source: Vicious
“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.”
“When no place is home, everywhere is.”
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”
Source: The Wanderess
“When no secrets can be kept, and transparency achieved through free flow of information— the long tale told— the hold that some have over the rest will be broken.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.”
“When Noam was a kid and felt picky about choking down gefilte fish on Pesach, his dad sat him down and told him the story of la pobre viejecita. Once upon a time, there was an old lady with nothing to eat but meat, fruit and sweets... and he'd flop another lump of poached fish on Noam's plate and say, "God bless us with the poverty of that poor old woman.”
Source: The Fever King
“When noble dreams become a reality, they elevate the nobles to an epic destiny.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”
“When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!”
“When nobody is applauding you, applaud yourself! Your most precious support is the support you give yourself!”
“When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.”
“When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.”
“When nobody wants you, you make yourself disappear.”
Source: About the Night
“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”
“When non-human animals are killed simply because they 'don't belong' and not because they are clearly causing some measurable harm, we have decided that erasing the taint of th ehuman is more important than the lives of animals (who, lest we forget, have no conception that they are in the 'wrong' place). This does not feel like humility in action. It is often the case that we hurt and kill animals because they are having effects we don't like, perhaps by predating on rare animals or eating rare plants. That's a trickier question--one we will tackle in due course.”
Source: Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
“When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.”
Source: Democracy in America
“When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.”
“When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers