W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone chooses wisdom over cleverness, everyone considers that person a fool.”
“When someone close to us dies, we get a little closer to death too.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.”
Source: Poems about Nature, Grief and Childhood
“When someone close to you dies, move seats.”
“When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.”
“When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.”
“When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.”
“When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.”
“When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.”
“When someone comes to me seeking help I want to learn everything I can about them. I'm interested in their physical, emotional, interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, and spiritual aspects of their well-being. I want to know about their hopes and dreams as well as their stresses, fears, and challenges.”
“When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.”
“When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.”
“When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.”
“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.”
“When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.”
“When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.”
“When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.”
“When someone commits an injustice in front of you,
Ask them 3 times nicely to make amends.
If they still carry on like prehistoric pricks,
It's time for you to take charge as their parents.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.”
“When someone compliments me ‘they had the best time of their life,’ I sincerely pray that god bless their life.”
“When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.”
“When someone compromises your mindset principle, your “Grr!” reflex automatically kicks in. Just like your physiological reflexes, this psychological reflex serves and protects by safeguarding a virtue of humanity.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.”
Source: Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game Starter Collection: Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars #2: Flawless, The Lying Game, The Lying Game #2: Never Have I Ever
“When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything.”
Source: Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance
“When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are.”
“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”
“When someone dear to you is lost within the arms of the heaven,they tell you to live without them. But when someone sucks the oxygen out of you, no one can dare to ask you to live without them.”
“When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.”
“when someone deliberately took a step to help you preserve face, it was meaningful. If you repaid them in kind, then you began to see each other as allies, friends, and family. Mianzi or lian—face—was intricately, inextricably intertwined with these nuanced social interconnections.”
Source: The Girl with No Face
“When someone deprives you of your history deprives you of your future”
Source: The Azanian
“When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.”
“When someone dies, it’s good to mail a note. Don’t send an e-mail. You have to send a card. Everyone should have cards and stamps kicking around. I have some very simple stationery, just nice card stock with my name at the top. When the news is happy, e-mail is fine. You can e-mail congratulations about babies, weddings, anything. But when it’s not? If it’s a death or other bad news, you have to be more formal.”
Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“When someone dies on the other side of the world, it’s as if he’s been killed in a war or a shipwreck. Our eyes couldn’t see the dead man. There was no funeral, no ritual. Nothing. Just a telegram, a letter.”
Source: Two Brothers
“When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even after you think you have brushed it off, it is suddenly there again, miring you in something heavy and dead and weighted and dark.”
Source: I Am an Island
“When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a reply she continued 'You probably think about the grown-up Tess because you were still close to her. But when I woke up I thought of her when she was three wearing a fairy skirt I'd got her in the Woolworth's and a policeman's helmet. Her wand was a wooden spoon. On the bus yesterday I imagined holding her when she was two days old. I felt the warmth of her. I remembered all her fingers clasped around my finger so tiny they didn't even meet. I remembered the shape of her head and stroking the nape of her neck till she slept. I remembered her smell. She smelled of innocence. Other times she's thirteen and so pretty that I worry for her everytime I see a man look at her. All of those Tesses is my daughter.”
Source: Sister
“When someone dies, we think that’s it for them. But it’s not really set up that way. It’s not fixed. Death like life is temporary.”
“When someone dies, where does the way they eat egg rolls go?”
Source: Beautyland
“When someone dies, you start counting all the ways you failed them”
Source: Pen Pal
“When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.”
“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”
Source: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright
“When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“When someone discovers a mystery about the creations, Mother Nature, the world or the universe, then God smiles in joy!”
“When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.”
“When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.”
“When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.”
Source: Anger
“When someone does not respond, not responding is their response.”
“When someone does not value, appreciate and respect your love and friendship, it is a reflection of their own self-worth...not yours.”
“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”
“When someone does you wrong and you do wrong to them as a revenge. It does not make you right, but it makes both of you wrong. Doing wrong is wrong no matter how you can justify it.”