W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“when the riot controls had been put into effect, and a nervous white population was waiting, it took little to set it off. In Wichita, a few white youths drove down into the black area and simply fired off guns. This brought black people out of their houses; in rage at seeing the harassment, they hurled stones or sticks at a passing car, and the battle was on. In that particular instance the police arrested the five whites who were armed and twelve young black men who had only rocks and sticks. All were jailed. The next morning, all were released on bail, but the bail set for the five armed whites was only one-fifth the amount set for the twelve unarmed black students.”
Source: Black Like Me
“When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that.”
“When the risk level becomes too high in the presence of armed police officers, you need to start shouting as loud as you can to the people around you to alert them that you are in danger. Keep shouting until the threat subsides!”
“When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.”
“When the river meets the ocean, the memories of the river meet the memories of the ocean. These two different worlds have many stories to tell each other!”
“When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!”
“When the river of courage runs dry, blood flows in its place.”
Source: Boy Swallows Universe
“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )”
“When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
“When the road ends and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself, that the way was long and lonesome, but the God that led him unto it was all the while in him, around him, with him, beside him!”
“When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me.”
“When the road gets long, and the world forsakes you,
May you extend compassion to yourself!
When the sky gets dark and the pathway, uncertain,
May you extend kindness to yourself!
When beauty fades, and wrinkles crease your face,
May you know, your heart remains unwrinkled!
When all you see is darkness around,
May you know, deep inside, shines your soul of light!”
“When the road gets really rough, lean on Him even more. He is still The Way!”
“When the road gets rough, grab a skateboard.”
Source: Sunnybrook
“When the road gets tough, true friends are the ones walking beside you”
“When the road grows barren, sow grace; in time, a living path will appear.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When the road is over, the cowards return to their homes; but the brave continue to move from where the road ends!”
“When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs'
and the word HOPE.
Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.”
“When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!”
“When the road stretches long and dark and ragged, it’s sweetness that remains at the end of it.”
Source: Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
“When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.”
“When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.”
“When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much like Africans are doing now that became like their "ghetto". Obviously, there are immense differences in Romani culture - there is more of a distrust of the outside and less willingness to integrate that stopped it from happening. The illiteracy rate is still very high, and they are still very much keeping themselves sectioned off from the rest of the community. I don't think that's going to happen with the African community.”
“When the roof fell in, a great funnel of smoke swarmed toward the sky, as if the old man's mighty spirit, released from its body--a little bottle--had swelled like the genie of fable. The smoke was tinted rose-hue from the flames, and perhaps the unutterable midnights of the universe will have no power to daunt the colour of this soul.”
Source: The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories
“When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.”
“When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new and green and we danced without care, then, we were immortal... We left those lands for the world where time dwells, dancing, that we might see the passage of the sun and the growing of the world. Here we may die, and where we can fall, and here King ___ has stopped his dancing.”
“When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind.”
“When the Rosary is well said it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and it is more meritorious for the soul than any other prayer.”
Source: The Secret of the Rosary
“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”
“When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“When the rose’s flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it’s no use to beckon or say, “So long”—
Maybe I’ll tell you then—
some other time.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.”
“When the ruble is weaker, it is easier to sell, to produce here for a cheap ruble and sell for an expensive dollar, get revenue in dollars and then exchange it for rubles and get a bigger income. This is simple.”
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.”
“When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.”
“When the rules are designed to break you, you have to break the rules”
Source: Sparrow Rising
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The voice of reason is lost in the envious echoes of hearts torn by battle. The song of our children echo the misfortune of their parent's haze---we all started out small and had dreams to become something more than what we were.”
“When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equipment, Dr Shigeto went right away to see the delegate and settle the matter tactfully. He is careful to steer clear of the superficial swirl of political maneuvering, but never misses any opportunity to improve the capability of the A-bomb Hospital or to enhance concretely the welfare of the patients. In that sense, he sometimes refers to himself as a 'dirty handkerchief.' That is, he serves to filter political purposes out of relief efforts so that the effect on patients is purely and concretely humane.”
Source: Hiroshima Notes
“When the rusty shackles of our emotions are being unchained, we can become lovers without a cause, and intrinsically the deepest wells of our unconsciousness may uncover the uncharted territories of deliverance, granting free rein to our intuition and giving love downright carte blanche. ("Another empty room" )”
“When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.”
“When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.”
Source: The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
“When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.”
“When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.”
“When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.”
Source: Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations
“When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt him and not grow tired of him.”
“When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence.”
“When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.”
“When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.”
Source: Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions
“When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland