W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3
“When the moment is right, it simply is”
“When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are, but how much you've been lying to yourself.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.”
“When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.”
“When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy”
“When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.”
“When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!”
“When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”
“When the moon is at its best and the sun at its worst, you have a hard time finding where's the nest and where's the bird!”
“When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.”
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“When the moon rises tonight, think of me and I'll think of you.”
“When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.”
“When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.”
Source: Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].
“When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.”
“When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!”
“When the moral and ethical failure of others becomes your defense, that will be your conviction.”
“When the moral courage to make decisions and distinctions between reality and deception degenerates to that point, then there is an end of life, of judgement, of the creative deed: the process of decay sets in, moral scepsis, and does its deadly work.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.”
“When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.”
“When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.”
Source: The World of Mathematics
“When the Most High God favours you, great things will happen for sure. You will find yourself on top, even if people thought you, were a flop.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When the Most High God favours you, great things will happen to you. You will find yourself on top, even if people had thought you were a flop.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.”
“When the most important things in our life happen we
quite often do not know, at the moment, what is
going on.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.”
Source: I, Fellini
“When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].”
“When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.”
“When the mother nurses her child, the boundary of the individual self becomes permeable and the common good is the only one that matters. The maternal gift economy is a biological imperative. There is no meritocracy or earning of sustenance. Mothers do not sell their milk to their babies, it is pure gift, sos that life can continue. The currency of this economy is the flow of gratitude, the flow of love, literally in support of life.”
Source: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You have let your tongue run too far; damn you!" She had forgotten that it was a crime to tell who was the father of her child.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.”
“When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come”
“When the mountains are too high, do not whine, because the beauty on the other side outweighs the discomfort of the climb.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When the mountains you have to climb are too high, God will show up if you let Him take charge.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When the mountains you have to climb are too high, invite the God of all might, and with Him by your side, you shall conquer them one by one.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.”
Source: The YHWH Style: A Fresh Look at the Nature of God the Father
“When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.”
“When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.”
“When the movie get out and people see it. It's not just our neighborhoods that's going through the gangs and going through all type of turmoil; it's other cities and other states and other towns.”
“When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.”
“When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.”
“When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.”
“When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.”
Source: Lun Yü
“When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.”
“When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.”
“When the murky clouds
Began drizzling gloom
When there was nothing
But darkness around
When everything
Looked hazy and misty
Suddenly there twinkled
A star
Far away.”
Source: Winter Shall fade