W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."”
“When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).”
“When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.”
“When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.”
“When something good hits me, I'll use Siri to make a note so I don't forget.”
“When something happens and it causes us pain, the pain is there to teach us a lesson. It is not so that we feel pain for the sake of pain.”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“When something “happens,” it is only relative to the observer. Feelings of love and reverence can be feelings of fear for another. Happiness to one may be anxiety for someone else. We create what “happens” from within ourselves.”
“When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.”
“When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
Source: Life is a Banquet
“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”
“When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.”
“When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.”
“When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.”
Source: The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
“When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.”
“When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.”
Source: Seven novels and other short stories
“When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.”
“When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.”
“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”
Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken
“When something hurts them, they weep.
By night, they rest, they sleep”
Source: Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?”
“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”
“When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.”
“When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.”
“When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.”
“When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.”
“When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.”
“When something is based on an iconic film, and we found this out with "The Producers" too, you've got to pay homage to what I'd call the greatest hits. ... People expect certain lines and moments they love.”
“When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.”
“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.”
Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“When something is destined, life can be easy".”
“When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.”
“When something is done, it should be done the way a stone bridge that lives thousands of years is done!”
“When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.”
“When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.”
“When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents
“When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
“When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.”
“When something is impossible, I do it anyway.”
“When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.”
“When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.”
“When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.”
“When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.”
“When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.”
Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.”
Source: Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
“When something is not good, it's bad. Period”
“When something is over, it is over.”