W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When one turns seventeen and begins to experience that first period of real independence, one's senses are so alert, one's sentiments so finely attuned that every conversation, every look, every laugh may be writ indelibly upon one's memory. And the friends that one happens to make in those impressionable years? One will meet them forever after with a welling of affection.”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow
“When one understands there is a structure to our Universe that operates on the same principle as structured water in terms of its responsiveness, we will go a long way to solving not only our water problems and other problems as well.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“When one verse in life ends in ignominy, we can use the glimmering marvel of nature’s splendor and frayed edges culled from the black linen of past failures to write uncanny poems that give voice to the fissures in our hollow, reflective poetry that echoes our supple inner world of cherished dreams colliding with the serrated edges of savage realism.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“When one visualises and venerates a woman, with her perceptive emotions, passions, and obstructive moods, one enables and qualifies for the remarkable and splendid life journey of both sides.”
“When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.”
“When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.”
“When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.”
“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”
Source: Maldoror and Poems
“When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.”
Source: New York
“When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.”
“When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.”
“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved”
“When one welcomes death, one has nothing to lose in a fight," he explained to his cousin. "He always has the advantage.”
Source: Leopard's Wrath
“when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.”
Source: Mallory's Oracle
“When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.”
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”
“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
“When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.”
“When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.”
“When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.”
“When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.”
“When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.”
“When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture...
Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement.”
“When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.”
“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.”
“When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.”
Source: The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time
“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!”
“When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.”
“When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.”
“When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.”
Source: Journey
“When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.”
“When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.”
“When one...consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love.”
“When only a little can be done, doing it becomes the greatest you can do.”
“When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".”
Source: Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do til the Revolution
“When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.”
“When only one party makes a profit that's robbery when all parties make profit that's business.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and making sense of the present. ("Only silence remained")”
“When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.”
Source: REBA: MY STORY
“When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success!”
“When opportunities knock on your door, don't wait too long to decide because when you take too much time, the decision will be made for you — typically, this will not be to your benefit.”
“When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.”
“When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.”
“When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.”
“When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.”
“When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.”