W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.”
“When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation,
Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.”
“When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.”
“When the small is so small that it almost touches the farthest possible end of “infinity,” it becomes uncatchable. It is the point that we freely choose to call the “point” of “absolute speed” when the smallest, or near the smallest, when looked at, appears to be a particle and, when not looked at, seems to be a wave. The smallest must be the trembling of “matter” near the point of zero. It has nowhere to go except into the bigger. The life of the small is the life of the big.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.
Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child?”
Source: The Virgin of Clan Sinclair
“When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.”
“When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.”
“When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying”
“When the snow began to fall, Maman was working in the shop, making Easter chocolates. Rabbits and chickens and baskets of eggs. Mendiants and nougatines. Nipples of Venus, and apricot hearts, and bitter orange slices. All wrapped up in cellophane, and tied with colored ribbons, and packed in boxes and sachets and bags, ready to give for Easter.”
Source: The Strawberry Thief
“When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.”
Source: An Island Garden
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.”
“When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either." But we did this without having the conversation.”
“When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.”
“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.”
“When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“When the solution helps move a system from an equilibrium that is unjust (where there is suffering, exclusion or marginalization) and helps establish a new, more just, equilibrium then social entrepreneurship is at work.”
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
“When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.”
“When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.”
“When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.”
Source: On a Positive Note
“When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
...To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers,
To make music in the heart.”
Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings
“When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.”
“When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.”
“When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to the Apostles, the Prophets, and all the Saints and Righteous Ones, then she is irresistibly drawn to that world, and cannot remain, but is bothered, and thirsts, and cannot cease from prayer, and although the body becomes exhausted and wants to lie down on a bed, even while lying in bed the soul longs for the Lord and the Kingdom of the Saints.”
“When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.”
“When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.”
“When the soul harmonized with the spirit, there is happiness.”
“When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.”
Source: Poems
“When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“When the soul is clear enough to reflect all, all separation will turn into memories.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe — As The Soul Speaks”
Source: The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity
“When the soul is full of the love of God, out of infinite joy she sorrows and in tears prays for the whole world, that all men may come to know their Lord and heavenly Father. There is no rest for her, nor does she desire rest, until all mankind delights in the grace of His love.”
Source: A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.”
“When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.”
“When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish.”
“When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning”
“When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own Father, the closest, dearest Father, the best. And there is not greater happiness that to love God with all the mind and heart, and our neighbor as ourself. And when this love is in the soul, then all things bring joy to the soul.”
“When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.”
“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.”
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
“When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.”
Source: Interior Castle
“When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.”
“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" - it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.”