W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.”
Source: Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel
“When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.”
“When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.”
“When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.”
“When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.”
“When something truly gets healed, the past can appear to change. We look back and can barely remember what irritated and upset us so much. The “reality” of the past has unbound itself. A different experience of life creates not only a different future but also a different past.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“When something unbelievably phenomenal is happening in your life and you don't believe you are good enough to have it, you will consciously or unconsciously find a way to sabotage your dreams come true.”
Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.”
Source: Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections
“When something unfortunate occurs, I tell myself it's the less-bad thing I bargained with the universe for in exchange for something worse not happening...Or let's say I'm trying on clothes and feel less than impressed with my pasty, flat-chested reflection in the dressing room mirror. I just tell myself that something terrible must have been about to happen in the alternate version of my life - like maybe some kittens were abut to be hit by a truck while the busty, even-skin-toned version of me was out jogging - and in my courageous way, I said, 'LORD, TAKE MY TAN AND MY BOOBS. JUST SAVE THE KITTENS.”
Source: I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
“When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.”
“When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.”
“When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.”
“When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.”
“When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.”
“When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.”
“When something's hard, smiling helps us in the end, and it becomes fun.”
“When something's over with me, it's over.”
“When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.”
“When, sometime later, Laurel asked about the bell, her mother replied calmly that how good a bell was depended on the distance away your children had gone.”
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“When sometimes a true sea-serpent, complete and undecayed, is found or caught, a shout of triumph will go through the world. "There, you see," men will say, "I knew they were there all the time. I just had a feeling they were there." Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. And the Old Man of the Sea is one of these. [...] For this reason we rather hope he is never photographed, for if the Man of the Sea should turn out to be some great malformed sealion, a lot of people would feel a sharp personal loss—a Santa Claus loss. And the ocean would be none the better for it. For the ocean, deep and black in the depths, is like the low dark levels of our minds in which the dream symbols incubate and sometimes rise up to sight like the Old Man of the Sea. And even if the symbol vision be horrible, it is there and it is ours. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.”
Source: Log from the Sea of Cortez
“When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.”
“When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.”
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -
Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,
The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore
- he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis.
Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonnets of English literature, that are sold as picture postcards, with the text in lieu of the view, in the Lake District! it is those eternally, infernally sprightly Daffodils.”
Source: Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
Source: The Crow
“When sorrow pierces your heart like a sharp knife, find peace in God. Peace is found in the secret place through prayer.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim,the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Source: Prometheus Unbound
“When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted”
“When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.”
“When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.”
“When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.”
“When sovereignty first expands to become the general organizing principle of a society, it is by turning violence into kinship. The early, spectacular phase of mass killing in both China and Egypt, whatever else it may be doing, appears to be intended to lay the foundations of what Max Weber referred to as a ‘patrimonial system’: that is, one in which all the kings’ subjects are imagined as members of the royal household, at least to the degree that they are all working to care for the king. Turning erstwhile strangers into part of the royal household, or denying them their own ancestors, are thereby ultimately two sides of the same coin. Or to put things another way, a ritual designed to produce kinship becomes a method of producing kingship.”
Source: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“When Soviet Russia needed Baku’s oil, even the Caspian Sea was expected to cooperate.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“When Soyer said of pies that they are 'one of our best companions du voyage through life', he was referring consumers, but he might just as well been referring to his professional colleagues, for pies have always been enormously useful to caterers and cooks, particularly at events where a large number must be fed efficiently. In modern times this is usually at sporting events such as football games, but the original experts in mass catering were the military.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.”
“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“When speakers make eye contact with an audience, they will be perceived as being more prepared, more competent, confident, and trustworthy. Eye contact helps to relax the speaker and reminds them that their audience is made up of separate individuals who perceive things differently. Audience response is clearly seen in the expressions of their eyes.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“When speaking in a romantic sense, the person you are in a relationship with doesn’t have to literally match you, meaning you have the same occupation or life’s work, but they will celebrate your victories
as their own and you will celebrate theirs as yours.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.”
Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
“When speaking of disabilities, the blind and their needs are most often used as an example. It is deceivingly simplistic since accessibility is something most of the population can benefit from.”
Source: Web Strategy for Everyone
“When speaking of disabilities, the blind and their needs are most often used as an example. It is deceivingly simplistic since accessibility is something most of the population can benefit from. We all benefit when we are tired, in bright sunshine with a mobile, are forced to use a gaming mouse with too-high sensitivity or receive the text version of video clips when we have forgotten our earphones and are in a quiet environment.”
Source: Web Strategy for Everyone
“When speaking of heritage. Not all of it is good and nor all of it is bad; for some people it isn’t all bad but for some of us; it’s all bad. But often not of the ancestors’ creation. But it’s your job as a person of your ancestors’ future is to evaluate it and select the good fruits and hold them dear but it’s also your responsibility to know when to have enough common sense to cast the bad ones out.”
“When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'”
“When speaking publicly, it is wise to communicate mindfully in the presence of silent listening eyes...”
“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”
Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book
“When speaking to an asshole, why expect anything but shit?”
“When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!”
Source: Isabella Warrior Queen
“When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.”
“When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.”