W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.”
“When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.”
“When someone wants to hide…the night gives them shelter.”
Source: Two Brothers
“When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.”
“When someone was hurting, you did what you could to heal them. When someone was lost, you found them.”
Source: Light of the Jedi
“When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.”
“When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”
“When someone we know is afraid of judgment, we can provide a safe haven for their hopes by telling them first and foremost that we are proud of their efforts.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“When someone we know is hurting, it’s our instinct to want them to get better––first, for themselves, and also because our inability to assist leaves us feeling helpless.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.”
“When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.”
“When someone we love is now a memory, those memories become the pieces of who we are today. They are the chapters of our story, the unfinished melodies of yesterday, lingering in our depths. They live in the quiet nights that refuse to let go of those days. It is a name written in the sands, unwashed by the waves. To remember is not to cry to be silenced, but to relive the dear moments. Those memories are a doorway to yesterday, that till today remains alive through us, and our telling of the story.”
“When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.”
Source: Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
“When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.”
“When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors. For me it's important making that transition seamless, and not a huge shock and jumping into cold water. It doesn't feel like I'm trying to shock you or anything. I'm just saying, "I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words." I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy, but I love dramatic movies just as much.”
“When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?”
“When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.”
“When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.”
“When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.”
“When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.”
“When someone who's been homeless and actually had to take meals on the handout or steal purses on the backs of park benches to be able to eat, not that that was right. My head was definitely not in the right place when I was out there using but when you share your greatest weaknesses and the most intimate parts of your story, I think it makes a real impact on people. I think what comes from the heart reaches the heart.”
“When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?”
“When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer deny their desires and needs, allowing the longings and wants for connection that have for so long been forbidden. When someone functioning from a dismissive style starts to allow their attachment system to come back online, it can initially be a very tender, raw and even overwhelming process. The skills that come with being able to identify your own feelings are part of a developmental process that takes time. The process of allowing feelings as they arise, learning how to self-soothe and establishing an inner trust that experiencing feelings is safe, cannot be rushed.
For the dismissive style, the journey from insecure to secure attachment is one of returning to the body through bringing feelings and sensations back to life and learning how to be with oneself in this process. Once this is established, the risk of then leaning into others, revealing one's internal world, and dismantling the self-reliant exoskeleton through asking for help and care from others can begin.”
Source: Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
“When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”
“When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.”
“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.”
“When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.”
“When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.”
“When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.”
“When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"”
“When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.”
“When someone wrongs us, the appropriate reaction is to acknowledge the wrongdoing and offer the offending party forgiveness.”
“When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.”
“When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.”
“When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.”
“When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.”
“When someone you love dies, part of you dies with them. It's why your never the same after losing someone.”
Source: Let the Sky Fall
“When someone you love dies, the war continues emotionally, as long as you do not surrender to grief. Feeling it keeps you in a flow state, so you, too, can be water, flowing, and rippling.”
“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is----a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.”
“When someone you love dies, you don't just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had, with them. They are missing from all the life that was to be.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.”
“When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.”
“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.”
“When someone you love has dementia, you too experience a form of anticipatory grief, but yours may extend over a longer period of time (for some, as long as 20 years) and be socially unrecognized and surrounded by uncertainty.”
Source: Healing Your Grieving Heart When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer's: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) by Wolfelt PhD CT, Alan D., Duvall MD, Kirby J. (2011) Paperback
“When someone you love hurts you, it's your heart that cry, not your eyes.”