W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When situations attempt to distract you from success, look ahead and look at God's goodness. Remind yourself of the reasons why you embarked on this journey of success, and allow it to inspire you to do your utmost best.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.”
“When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.”
“When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”
Source: Selected poems
“When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The castle dream.
A little girl of about six who looks -like me, but isn’t me, is happy as she steps out of the car with her daddy. They enter the castle and go down the steps to the dungeon where people move like shadows in the glow of burning candles. There are carpets and funny pictures on the walls. Some of the people wear hoods and robes. Sometimes they chant in droning voices that make the little girl afraid. There are other children, some of them without any clothes on. There is an altar like the altar in nearby St Mildred’s Church. The children take turns lying on that altar so the people, mostly men, but a few women, can kiss and lick their private parts. The daddy holds the hand of the little girl tightly. She looks up at him and he smiles. The little girl likes going out with her daddy.
I did want to tell Dr Purvis these dreams but I didn’t want her to think I was crazy, and so kept them to myself. The psychiatrist was wiser than I appreciated at the time; sixteen-year-olds imagine they are cleverer than they really are. Dr Purvis knew I had suffered psychological damage as a child, that’s why she kept making a fresh appointment week after week. But I was unable to give her the tools and clues to find out exactly what had happened.”
Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“When sleep enters the body like smoke
and man journeys into the abyss
like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
then all quarrel ceases,
overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
of its rider.”
Source: O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli
“When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .”
Source: O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli
“When sleep lures you into the deep, it makes you forget your dreams. That is why you must focus on working diligently and continue succeeding.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.”
Source: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. “You must go back to sleep,” her mother tells her, “It’s not time.” From what she understands, the Prince hasn’t come to rescue her yet.”
Source: Do Virgins Taste Better? And Other Tales of Whimsy
“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old”
“When Slenderman screams, the world will end.”
Source: 101 Amazing Slenderman Facts
“When slightly open, a door is ajar, but when slightly open, is a jar adoor?”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“When slogging through the myriad of laws about priestly worship practices, the tabernacle, uncleanness, and primitive issues of justice, you may feel like the wheels are coming off your momentum. Yet this part of Scripture is also God’s gift to His people. Gems here are waiting to be unearthed from under the seemingly crusty surface, and those gems form a vital part of the foundation of the Bible’s grand story.”
Source: Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding and Living God's Word
“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
“When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.”
“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”
“When smart people do dumb things it’s usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They want something they’re not supposed to have or they’ve done something they weren’t supposed to do. In either case they’ve usually fasten on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality. It has become more important for them to believe that to know.”
Source: The Passenger
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.”
“When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.”
“when snow falls
i long for grass
when grass grows
i walk all over it
when leaves change color
i beg for flowers
when flowers bloom
i pick them”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!”
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Source: Camino Real
“When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?”
“When so many men go to the dogs, why should not a poet devote himself to the cats? Has not a cat frequently consoled us for the ingratitude of princes and the inconstancy of fortune?”
“When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different perspective and realized that I can't just sing my way out of all this suffering. I have to try to understand human nature and myself and the nature of suffering and a lot of these other issues on a deeper level.”
“When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.”
“When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.”
“When so much of the music I loved I let go, yours stayed.”
“When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.”
“When sober people look up, they see nothing but clouds and stars.”
Source: Sex, Drugs and Tales of Wonder
“When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.”
“When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.”
“When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.”
“When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“When societies place power and wealth above knowledge, chaos and destruction is inevitable. Cause and effect are inseparable; what we invest in today becomes the reality we must face tomorrow.”
“When society as a whole begins to efficiently utilize all capital everywhere on a global scale and and make all capital everywhere maximally productive on a global scale — most if not all of our global scale social problems will be solved.”
“When society does something wrong and extremely immoral, ironically it is not called ‘madness’. For example, ‘sati burning’ and ‘forced conversion into another religion’ etc. Sometimes, an ‘unreasonable’ society tries to present itself as ‘reasonable’ by unfairly and selfishly defining ‘madness’ according to its own wish and for its own interest!”
“When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.”
Source: Eumeswil
“When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.”
“When society is organised from above, either by the top-down government of a revolutionary dictatorship, or by the impersonal edicts of an inscrutable bureaucracy, then accountability rapidly disappears from the political order, and from society, too.
Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens to act for themselves.”
Source: Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
“When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“When society questions a victim's reluctance to report, I will be here to remind you that you ask us to sacrifice our sanity to fight outdated structures that were designed to keep us down...The real question we need to be asking is not, Why didn't she report, the question is, Why would you?”
Source: Know My Name
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.”
Source: Against Love: A Polemic
“When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.”