W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the beauties come together, there emerges a super beauty!”
“When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.”
“When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
“When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace.”
“When the bell of my flat rings at four o’clock in the afternoon, I don’t expect a policeman to be standing outside. “Sorry to disturb you sir,” he says. “Detective sergeant McCorquodale. It’s about your mother.” Detective sergeant McCorquodale is an enormous lighthouse of a man with the untroubled skin of a baby and not a trace of facial hair; a sort of man-boy who’s overdosed on growth hormones.”
Source: Karna's Wheel
“When the bell rings, your trainer can't help you.”
“When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.”
“When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.”
“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”
“When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.”
“When the best friends come together, the shining spirit of solidarity replaces the brightest star Sirius!”
“When the Best is gone - I know that other things are not of consequence - The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care -”
Source: Emily Dickinson: Letters
“When the Bible is understood in its literary and historical context; errors, contradictions, and inconsistencies pose no threat to spirituality, whether that spirituality is theistic, non-theistic, or even explicitly Jesus-centered. The graver threat to what Christians call godliness may be fundamentalism - religion that flows from literalism and fear, religion based on anachronism and law. Fundamentalism teachers, in effect, that the tattered musings of our ancestors, those human words that so poorly represent the content of human thinking, somehow adequately describe God. Fundamentalism offers identity, security, and simplicity, but at a price: by binding believers to the moral imitations and cultural trappings of the Ancients, it precludes a deeper embrace of goodness, love, and truth - in other words, of Divinity.”
Source: The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth
“When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
Source: The Secret of Guidance
“When the Bible offends you, be encouraged that it offends everyone at some point. Consider the responsibility of the Bible. It must speak the truth to every culture through every era of history. I believe that there has never been a culture on earth that has not been offended by the Bible on some issue. What offends one group could be common sense to another and vice versa. Some cultures are offended that God would judge people for their sin. Some cry out to God to judge people because of sin. There are some cultures that are appalled at how God would forgive people no matter what they have done. For other cultures, that kind of forgiveness is expected of God.”
“When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.”
“When the Bible speaks, God speaks.”
“When the Bible spoke about the love of money being the root of all kinds of evil, it was revealing a timeless truth. It understood what people would one day do in the pursuit of wealth. How greed can corrupt hearts, break communities, and lead some to exploit the poor. It foresaw how the desire for riches can push people to lie, deceive, betray, oppress, and even destroy others just to get ahead.
Today, we still see how money can twist the human heart. We see powerful people using their influence to harm the vulnerable and maintain their own comfort. And what makes it even more heartbreaking is that many who act this way still call themselves Christians, even though their deeds in the dark do not reflect the light of Christ.
In a world where greed causes so much harm, let us be the ones who choose love, generosity, and righteousness. That is how true faith shines. Do not be deceived by wolves in sheep's skin.Some people will lead you in darkness.”
“When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.”
“When the Big Book was first published in 1939, the American Medical Association, bewildered by its tone and inflated claims, called the work “a curious combination of organizing propaganda and religious exhortation. . . . [T]he one valid thing in the book is the recognition of the seriousness of addiction to alcohol. Other than this, the book has no scientific merit or interest.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases went even further in 1940, calling AA a “regressive mass psychological method” and a “religious fervor,” writing: “The big, big book, i.e. big in words, is a rambling sort of camp-meeting confession of experiences, told in the form of biographies of various alcoholics who had been to a certain institution and have provisionally recovered, chiefly under the influence of the ‘big brothers of the spirit.’ Of the inner meaning of alcoholism there is hardly a word. It is all surface material.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“When the big German guns at Calais fired on us, we realized, we had been strafed by Spitfires from the RAF during working up exercises for the invasion, accidentally attacked by the USN off Normandy after D-Day and shelled by the British Army in the English Channel. It was about time the enemy took a few shots at us too!"
Jack Harold, RCNVR, Signalman
HMCS TRENTONIAN
Chapter 9, White Ensign Flying -The Story of HMCS TRENTONIAN.”
Source: White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
“When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.”
“When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.”
“When the birds were famished,
They could be seen day and night,
The minute they gathered enough crumbs,
The hungry birds took flight.”
“When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy farts... er... keep it to yourself.”
Source: Jake's Thing
“When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.”
Source: New and selected poems
“When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.”
Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons
“When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.”
“When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.”
“When the blood starts flying. I'll do business with the Devil himself. Victory at all costs is the only thing. You can discuss the moral ethics as we bury the enemy.”
Source: Chopper
“When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!”
“When the bodies were exumed and moved to new graves, the families of the missing set up small cenotaphs; your middle brother went expressly to look for the two kids' names, but apparently they weren't there. If their father had still been alive, surely he would have set up a pair of cenotaphs for them?”
Source: Human Acts
“When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.”
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“When the body forces you to STOP it's saying, hey buddy, you've gone too far.”
“When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself”
Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality
“When the body has too much to deal with, it stops being able to get rid of its waste efficiently and requires more support to help it fight off what is attacking it.”
“When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]”
“When the body is hurt, brain feels it;
When the soul is hurt, heart feels it;
No matter where it hurts, Allah heals it.”
“When the body is in its rightful mode, it is silent. We feel neither well nor sick, healthy nor unhealthy. The body becomes the quiet, perfectly functioning tool by which God uses us in this life. Your body can be well just as easily as sick. Your life can be harmonious and glad just as easily as it can be tormented and dramatic. Choose carefully. And if you have chosen unfortunately then choose again.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.”
“When the body is sad, the heart languishes.”
Source: The fall
“When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it”
“When the body is urged to participate with the universe, it creates access routes for emotionality and intellectuality as well.”
Source: The metaphoric mind: a celebration of creative consciousness
“When the body nutrition is off, you will get diagnosed with a wide range of medical conditions because of it and most will disappear when you fix it.”
“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws