W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the voice of medicine can't give you the answers you need and you recognize that the cause of your trouble is spiritual, it's imperative that you learn how to trust in the God that is bigger than your storm. When the only way out, is through, you need to know deep within your heart and soul, that no matter what you go through, the friends of God suffer no permanent harm.”
“When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.”
“When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.”
Source: Collected Poems
“When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.”
“When the voices of your past come calling you, wanting you to go back to something worse than you used to be, the only way to deal with it is to ignore those voices and press forward. That’s exactly what I intended to do.”
Source: Shift Happens
“When the volume of debt has grown as large as national income or GDP, and when it bears an interest rate (typically 5%) above the economy’s rate of growth (typically just 1% to 2%), then all the growth in national income is taken by the creditors.”
Source: J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
“When, the voter participation is too low. This has negative effects on political discourse as well as economic and social outcomes.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“When the wait is long, it is usually worth waiting for.”
“When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed her tail and plunged her little hand inside a smelly Gorgonzola. 'Tyromancy, ye know,' remarked the mermaid. 'The Ancient Art of Divination by Cheese.' Then she pulled her tiny hand out and inspected the green cheese-mold on her tiny fingers. 'Lackaday!' she moaned. 'Stinking! It goes poorly for Venice and Teodora, it do!”
Source: The Undrowned Child
“When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'”
“When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.”
Source: Look Eleven Years Younger
“When The Walking Dead officially got greenlit, Frank Darabont called me up and said, "My passion project just got off the ground. There's a role I think you're perfect for. Would you consider the role of Andrea?" And I was like, "Wow, I'd love to take a look at it." So, I read the pilot script and was knocked out.”
“When the walls in us turn to dust, even the dust turns gold by our touch.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“When the walls reverberated with the innocent laughter and joy that children bring to the present moment without the baggage of the past or worries about the future, a great weight lifted from my shoulders.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”
“When the war broke he laughed and cried, "Now what did they have to do that for?" In his letters to John he was eloquent in his bitterness. He was sure that both he and John were going to die in this war. He said he preferred to die at sea. The sea was clean.”
Source: You lovely people
“When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.”
“When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.”
“When the war ends
Perish enemies and friends
When all is said and all is done
Everyone has lost
Just time has won”
“When the war intensify, withdrawal.”
“When the war is intense, withdraw.”
“When the war is intense withdrawal. Do not insist on winning.”
“When the war is intensified, the best safety is to withdraw.”
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
Source: Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War
“When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!”
“When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.”
“When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.”
“When the Warrior pulled her half onto his lap and she felt the hard bulge of his erection thrusting up from his groin pressing into her hip, Katya grew nervous. She pulled away, gasping, and pressed him back with her hand on his chest. “Wait! Wait.” She licked her tingling lips and touched them with her fingertips, wondering what she’d been thinking to awaken this sleeping giant. What had happened to her vow to fight him off with all her strength?
Turan’s dark eyes glowed like two banked coals ready to ignite into flame. “Please. More,” he begged hoarsely. “Please.”
She suddenly realized that, despite the fact he could snap her in two if he wished, she was the one with the power. He didn’t intend to hurt or force her.”
Source: The Warrior's Gift
“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”
Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq
“When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.”
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“When the water gets deep and the current strong, you have to swim. Promise me, you’ll swim.”
Source: The Thing with Feathers
“When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!”
“When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!”
“When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.”
“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
“When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.”
“When the waves are crazy, the land is prettier!”
“When the waves of grief rise again, when the reality of their absence pierces your heart afresh, may you find the strength to surrender to the sorrow, to let it wash over you like a cleansing rain. For in this surrender, there is a kind of healing, a gradual softening of the edges of your pain, as you learn to carry the weight of your love and loss with grace.”
“When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.”
“When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.”
“When the way is not clear, there is absolutely no way. "Wrong choices" are unarguably "no choices".”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!”
“When the way of conscience is also the way of profit, there is little difficulty in following it.”
Source: Isabella: The Warrior Queen
“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.”
Source: The Problem of Anxiety
“When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”
“When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.”