W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
Source: Complete Essays
“When solar radiation strikes ionosphere, earth produces the northern lights. When suffering strikes psychosphere, mind produces heart light.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
“When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“When solitude was a problem, I had no solitude. When it ceased to be a problem I found I already possessed it, and could have possessed it all along.”
“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”
Source: The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards
“When Solomon started out, he relied upon the wisdom of God but as time progressed and he advanced in age and knowledge, he grew increasingly more distant from God and His wisdom. The dependance on God that once was the hallmark of his life, now changed into dependance upon his own wisdom.”
Source: The Solomon Principles
“When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.”
Source: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism
“When solving problems in business, having a diversity of perspectives ultimately yields better and more implementable solutions. And companies that are better able to solve problems are better positioned to succeed in the marketplace. So DEI is really about a business’ ability to thrive in the marketplace — it’s not about acts of charity and it’s really not even about social justice.”
“When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (“This far”)”
“When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.”
“When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.”
“When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Source: Compensation and Self-Reliance
“When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.”
“When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.”
“When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.”
Source: Galileo's Dream
“When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice.”
Source: The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
“When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.”
“When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole world perish!” This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is “If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!”
“When some name dropping and eye-rolling chin-strokers are trying to snow us under with an avalanche of swollen narratives, we must never resist puncturing the blown-up balloons of their twisted too-good-to-be-true stories. The sound of bursting balloons may, then, ring like ravishing music in the ears.("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
“When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.”
“When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."”
“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.”
“When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."”
“When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.”
“When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.”
“When some people are choosing to work hard, not sleeping , sacrificing everything they have to fulfill their dreams. There are some who choose to interfere in their lives. Who dig in their pasts and who look for mistakes so that they can bring them down. Today if you Choose to use the same energy, skill, effort, data and resources to bring others down, or shaming them. Use it to better your life. You will go far and you will be successful just like them.”
“When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."”
“When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.”
“When some people hurt you, they do it on purpose and keep it moving. It is up to us to let that shit go...if we don’t, we will always and forever be walking down a dark, gloomy road filled with anger and hate in our heart as it takes over our soul and way of life. It isn’t worth it.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.”
“When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.”
“When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.”
“When some people walk into your life, the last thing you remember before them was heartache. It's also the first thing you forgot with them.”
“When some poor soul is wounded, it's unimportant what you believe, science or the sacred, what matters is that you rush to them with first aid. To be the first aid in someone's wounds, that's the highest sanctity, as well as the right science.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.”
“When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.”
“When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.”
“When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.”
“When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“When some things do not work out, it is because God has something figured out.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very often unperceptive. If fear only rumbled through a woman’s soul and glittered through her eyes, then perhaps the man she feared would not be aware it was there at all. He might even think that she was entirely confident, dauntless. He might believe her veneer of bravery.”
Source: Paint
“When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.”
“When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.”
“When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.”
“When somebody asks me, "Who are you?" I tell them, "I am the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, which has its own culture and own religious beliefs." And we are in four countries in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Terai region of Nepal. What binds us hijras together is the same pain that has gone through our lives, which is much thicker than blood. That's why in our community we don't have old-age homes. Our guru may be horrible, but at the same time, we take care of the guru till the last breath.”
“When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.”