W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When something is pleasant, lovely, and appealing, we’re caught by it. But appealing appearances are deceptive. We get hooked by them and once we’re caught, we suffer.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“When something is quiet it is high quality”
“When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.”
Source: The Final Testament
“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”
“When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.”
“When something is troubling me, people know about it”
“When something is true, you know it in your bones.”
Source: I Know the Ants: A Novel
“When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.”
“When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.”
“When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.”
“When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.”
“When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesced and opaque with water, which the wipers heaved mightily to displace.”
Source: The Pale King
“When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.”
Source: Savvy
“When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.”
“When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe that just tells the truth: Look, it's a violation of international law. But most have to construct complex arguments to justify it as defense counsel. That's basically their job, defense counsel for state power.”
“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”
Source: Heartburn
“When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.”
“When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it.”
“When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.”
“When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.”
“When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.”
Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly
“When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.”
“When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.”
“When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.”
“When something – or someone – that you are clinging on to starts controlling you, the joy of doing that something or being with that person evaporates. You feel miserable. To uncling, you must feel and hate that misery deep within you. Ask yourself if you really want so much suffering in your Life – for instance, if you smoke, are you smoking for yourself anymore or is your habit controlling you, driving you crazy; or if you are in an abusive marriage, are you in it because you are loving it or are you being held hostage in it by the person’s power or by social norms? Only brutally honest conversations with yourself on what – or who – is possessing you leads you to uncling. You finally uncling only when you realize that you have to make that choice to let go, to move on, to end the suffering!”
“When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.”
“When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.”
“When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.”
Source: Overcoming the Challenges of Life
“When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.”
“When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.”
“When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.”
“When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.”
“When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.”
“When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event were happening in the present. But because their left brain is not working very well, they may not be aware that they are re-experiencing and reenacting the past - they are just furious, terrified, enraged, ashamed, or frozen.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.”
“When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.”
Source: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
“When something seems like an unbelievable coincidence, then consider that it might not be a coincidence”
Source: Once Was a Time
“When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.”
Source: Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
“When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.”
“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”
“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.”
“When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.”
“When something terrible happens, people respond to it in two ways. Either they lose their faith in God altogether, or they start believing in him even more.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.”
“When something terrific is about to happen in your life, something terrible is most likely to happen.”
“When something terrific is about to happen in your life, something terrible is most likely to happen. Do not be terrified, remain standing in spite of!”