W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone you love is hurting, if it was possible, you'd want to take their pain for them. But do I really want cramps and sore boobs?”
“When someone you love is taken from you, your life divides into two distinct epochs: what things were like before, and what comes after.”
Source: The Bandit Kings of Nowhere Park
“When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.”
“When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
“When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.”
“When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.”
“When someone you love...when they die, you want it undone. You'd do anything to have them back, and it's easy to believe that if only this had happened or that had happened, everything would be fine. And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.”
Source: Heartbeat
“When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?”
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
Source: Big Little Lies
“When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.”
“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.”
“When someone's really sick and their family is tired and concerned about what will take place, those are the times that they need a support group around them to take care of them as a human being.”
“When someone's running late through an airport, I hope they miss their flight so they can meet the love of their life at the duty free shop.”
“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.”
“When somethin's not right it's wrong.”
Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012
“When something—a mirror, an inaccurate measurement, or a costume—comes between us and the things we observe, facts can become less apparent, or they can get hidden away.”
Source: Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS
“When something arrives, you have no idea what's in it, which is good. And then, it's is the story leaps off the page at you and how your character functions within it. There could be just one scene and if it's wonderful, it doesn't matter how much you're working on it because you just want to be in it. It's really about what your character's day to day world looks like, and if you feel like that's something that's complete, and that you'd like to inhabit for awhile. You'll know by a couple of scenes in. If the character grabs you, you run with it.”
“When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.”
Source: Such A Rush
“When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.”
“When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.”
“When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!”
“When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.”
“When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.”
Source: Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
“When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.”
Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
“When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.”
Source: The Name of the Game
“When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.”
Source: Live Your Truth
“When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.”
“When something dehydrates, it withers; if you want to look fresh, stay hydrated.”
“When something dies is the greatest teaching.”
“When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.”
“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
“When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!”
“When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.”
“When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.”
“When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.”
“When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.”
“When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
“When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.”
“When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.”
“When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.”
“When something frightens them, they do not run but go to face it. They take up arms and go to the front. They are not afraid to live, and to die, too, if they have to: they already know that, too is a part of life.”
Source: Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
“When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.”
“When something goes wrong in our lives we often ask ourselves "Who was present?" and if there was ever a singular person that was present in whatever the event was when something changed our lives. If we can't get beyond that event, we become obsessed with it or it changed our life in a way that we can't make sense of. We often seek out that person because that was the last time our lives made sense.”
“When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.”
Source: Natural Birth: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding
“When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in your physical body. The problem always starts in the subtle physical, and then manifests in the physical.”
“When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind”
“When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.”