W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”
“When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.”
“When the sun sets do not despair; hope sits with you in the dark.”
“When the sun sets in one direction, it is foolish to travel in the other directions for light. Switch on the power”
“When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.”
Source: Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall
“When the sun sets, the flowers go to sleep and the stars watch over us, thoughts of you will increase and my love will only grow.”
“When the sun sets the moon will rise
So the moon can be brave while the sun cries
The moon will live while the sun dies
Through the sun’s lows and the moon’s highs
But the sun rises while the moon sets
The sun burns away what the moon regrets
The moon can shelter from Earth’s threats
And the sun will stand ‘til she forgets”
“When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.”
“When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!”
“When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!”
“When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
But small, appear most long and terrible;
So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
And sweat with an Imagination's weight.”
“When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected; and when the seas shall boil; and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death; and when the books shall be laid open; and when the heavens shall be removed; and when hell shall burn fiercely; and when paradise shall be brought near: every soul shall know what it hath wrought.”
Source: القرآن الكريم
“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!”
“When the sun shines, there seems to be much more dust in the air.
Dirt can only be seen and properly removed by flooding it with white light”
“When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!”
“When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone--ah, when the sun is gone.”
Source: Death on the Nile
“When the sun shines, you let it shine on you”
Source: Just One Day
“When the sun shineth, make hay.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.”
Source: Selected poems
“When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.”
Source: Voices from the Sky
“When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!”
“When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.”
Source: Inheritance
“When the sun touches you, it means that a holy hand to which you owe your life is touching you!”
“When the sunlight hit the trees, all the beauty and wonder come together. Soul unfolds its petals. Flowering and fruiting of plants starts. The birds song light up the spinal column and harmonize the hippocampal functioning.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“When the sunne shineth, make hay.”
“When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.”
“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
“When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."”
“When the Supreme Court behaves prehistoric every human must become an activist.”
“When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.”
“When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.”
“When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.”
Source: Lex, Rex, Or, The Law and the Prince: A Dispute for the Just Prerogative of King and People, Containing the Reasons and Causes of the Most Necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland and of Their Expedition for the Aid and Help of Their Dear Brethren of England. In which Their Innocency is Asserted and a Full Answer is Given to a Seditious Pamphlet Entituled,
“When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.”
“When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.”
“When the surrounding mountains seem too high to climb, pray for courage and be empowered by God’s grace.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.”
Source: Freedom (TM)
“When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.”
“When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.”
Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.”
“When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.”
“When the systems of profit, fame, and national pride degrade bicycle or soccer competitions to a tainted ritual, it becomes a depiction of corruption rather than trust, integrity, and honest endeavor. ( “The dirty bike")”
“When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.”
“When the tabloids photograph me when I'm out, I always say: "You know what, folks? I'm not married and I'm not gay. You caught me with a hot chick. You got me. Take me to hot-chick jail. Did it again. Guilty."”
“When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.”
“When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.”
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
“When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.”