W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit”
“When they clamour for your attention and your skill, for what you can do for them… I am here to tell you that my life is for you. I’ll give you my every day. I’ll spend all of them worshipping you. Cherishing you.”
Source: Perfectly Matching Again: A Novella For All Seasons
“When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.”
“When they come for your guns, give them the ammo first.”
“When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.”
“When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.”
“When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.”
Source: Cowboys Don't Sing
“When they cut me open, I want them to say, “Damn! This woman ate well.”
Source: The Delectable Habit of Losing Weight: How to successfully commit to your weight loss goals
“When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.”
“When they'd first met in their twenties, he'd seemed like such a fascinating mystery. Unfortunately it hadn't taken long to solve it. By the time they were married, Harriet had realized that everything he did was completely predictable. He valued money, sex, status, and food, in that order. Chase was a very simple creature.”
Source: The Change
“When they deprive you of happiness, they do not deserve you.”
“When they destructively branded me as a threat, risk, a brain-damaged person, a mentally-ill person, and a danger: I became the target of their mob lynching and cyber bullying through calumny, defamation, threats, digital aggression, libel and slander.
Afterwards, the financial scammer, con, coward, political, financial, habitually abusive harridan in the Land of Windmills, Dykes and Bikes, and her Machiavellian manipulators asked again for help, food, homemade meals, and groceries delivered to her residence, restaurant bills paid, car services, urgent favours and donations.
Under the halo of magnetising advocacy, they played their Machiavellian games of manipulations, their video smear campaigns, and global financial, well calculated opportunism in the legal limits but not within the moral limits.”
~ Angelica Hopes, Calunniatopia
Book 1 Stronzata Trilogy”
“When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.”
“When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.”
“When they do everything in their power to bring you down and taint who you are, you must opt to thrive. Remain steadfast in your commitment to a quality life.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.”
“When they don’t expect much from you, make them realize how wrong they are.”
“When they don't know what they don't know,
allow them to say what they want to say
and just do what you want to do anyway.”
“When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.”
“When they encounter a tough problem or a tough course, they plug away at it. They persevere. Their confidence makes a major contribution to their success.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“When they erase the truth, it’s up to the brave to etch it back into the fabric of reality.”
Source: Obedience is Happiness: The Promises Of Tomorrow
“When they exited onto the street, Arch hailed a hansom, and Quincy slipped inside before he could offer her any more chivalry. There was just enough room in the carriage for two reasonably sized egos, and any tendency towards Lancelotism, Quincy told herself, was to be avoided.”
Source: The Q
“When they face desperation... human beings become animals.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“When they face failure, winners don’t whine, but they work harder to win!”
“When they fail to kill your genius, they try to assassinate your character.”
“When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.”
Source: Jazz
“When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.”
“When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.”
“When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I'll be first in line.”
Source: Bound to Accept
“When they finally accepted parenthood was beyond their reach, they began to live for the now and not the maybe.”
Source: The Marriage Act
“When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.”
“When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.”
Source: The Different Girl
“When they finished dressing, Jimena wore racy red hot pants, a silky blouse with a star-burst pattern, and crazy ankle boots with thin chains draped around her ankles.
"Too cool." Serena admired Jimena's outfit, then she twirled to show off her own shoulder-baring top that exposed her midriff. She had pasted a crystal in her belly button. Kendra's bell-bottoms had been too long, but when she stepped into a pair of gold 70's platform shoes the length became just right.
Catty wore a backless halter top and a pair of lacy bell-bottoms. She held up some stencils. "Kendra is going to start selling these at the shop. Anyone want to try one?" She had two dragons in one hand and a lacy snowflake pattern in the other.
Jimena and Serena started to examine them, when Vanessa walked into the room. She was wearing a pinstripe shirt unbuttoned over a black leather bra top. Kendra's mini-skirt was too big and the waist fell around Vanessa's hips. Her skin looked golden bronze and she had applied one of the snowflake stencils on her stomach.
"Wow," Serena said.
"Talk about going for the jugular," Jimena teased.
"You like it?" she asked and took off the shirt. "It's too hot to wear.”
Source: The Secret Scroll
“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”
Source: Spindle's End
“When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.”
“When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”
“When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.”
“When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it”
“When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world.”
Source: Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
“When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause.”
Source: Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
“When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.”
“When they get done sending you to Parchman you'll have plenty of time between working cotton and corn you aint going to get no third and fourth of even, to study it." They looked at one another.
"Yes sir," George said. 'Especially wid you there to help me worry hit out.”
Source: Go Down, Moses
“When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches”
Source: The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
“When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.”
“When they give you flowers, give them back a bouquet of your biggest smiles.”
“When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.”
Source: Finch
“When they go low, we go high.”
“When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you were not allowed in. If you had any kind of a disease, we were in the process of trying to wipe out all these diseases. We did that by keeping people who had them out of the country. You might look at it today as, "Wow, that was really mean." No. It was putting America first. It was putting the American people first, and it was a realization that we can't take everybody.”
“When they got married, she could include them in her wedding vows: You were always there for me, always. You were always there for me, always. You were always there for me, always.
They were the most beautiful words he'd ever heard.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories