W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.
About Alex and Brittany.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“When they reached a maintenance closet, Iko ushered the escort-droid inside.
“I want you to know that I hold nothing against you,” she said, by way of introduction. “I understand that it isn’t your fault your programmer had so little imagination.”
The escort-droid held her gaze with empty eyes.
“In another life, we could have been sisters, and I feel it’s important to acknowledge that.”
A blank stare. A blink, every six seconds.
“But as it stands, I’m a part of an important mission right now, and I cannot be swayed from my goal by my sympathy for androids who are less advanced than myself.”
Nothing.
“All right then.” Iko held out her hands. “I need your clothes.”
Source: Cress
“When they reached the Hôtel de Ville, early as it was, its fountain waters already danced in the lights playing on the magnificent old building. On good days, dusk stays long in Paris, but barely into September as it was now, evenings stretched way into the night”
Source: Mademoiselle le Sleuth
“When they reached the stairs, he didn’t make her climb them herself. He picked her up in his arms and carried her to the big bathroom off their bedroom. He didn’t speak, his expression didn’t soften. But he was hard. His cock was like a poker, steely and hot against her hip. His eyes blazed with lust.”
Source: Tempting the Beast
“When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was just a blue dot, and the river a narrow ribbon of green: the swing they couldn't see at all. "We've never been such a long way from home before," said Moomintroll, and a little goose-fleshy thrill of excitement came over them at the thought.”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”
Source: Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
“When they referred to their soldiers killed on the battlefield, they sometimes said that they were martyred, and sometimes said they were murdered. I wondered how differently Americans would see wars if the press and the people spoke of our troops in the firing line as having died in a homicide rather than killed in action. The rain fell harder, and bullets flew wildly into the growing darkness that hid the dead ISIS bodies nearby. Hungry, untamed dogs had gouged into the skeletons almost immediately. Some had been dead for days. Some had names and others had been left nameless. Some, maculated by the creatures howling at the moon, had no faces.”
Source: Only Cry For The Living
“When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.”
“When they remain silent, they cry out.”
“When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel's never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. They were all the more boring because he could remember reading the end in the recent future.”
Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
“When they run out of lands to pillage, peoples to enslave, and lands to lay waste, they'll eat their own.”
“When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.”
“When they said you wouldn't amount to anything, God saw the best in you. You can smile and have joy knowing you have favor in Him. God qualified you.”
Source: Sweet Destiny
“When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”
“When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.”
“When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Matthew 2:10”
“When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.”
“When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.”
“When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.”
“When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing”
“When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.”
“When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor- you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once."
Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner.
"Bleaaargh- see? Sprouts?"
They had a good time eating the Every Flavor Beans. Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn't touch, which turned out to be pepper.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“When they say I will never be successful, I say the creator decides if I will be successful or not.”
Source: Watch Out! It's Nolan! (A Courageous Tale About a Boy Who Overcame His Bullies by Being Fearless and Standing up for Himself).
“When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.”
“When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.”
“When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.”
“When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.”
“When they say that, ‘God takes avatar (reincarnates)’ is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels ‘I did it’!”
“When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.”
“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”
“When they say they are maintaining the status quo and keeping things balanced. They mean gatekeeping wealth , land, economy, and business. Keeping us poor, uneducated, unskilled, untrained, underpaid, undeveloped and unemployed. The very same people will be having dementia few years down the line and will be saying we are poor, stupid, thieves, criminals, useless, uneducated, unskilled and dangerous. How we like handouts and everything to be given to us for free. How we like complaining about everything. Forgetting that they had stolen everything from us. Our resources and opportunities. They had tipped the scale to favor them. They were busy sabotaging and tempering with our progress and development. They were busy meddling with our affairs, policies, politics, business, government, and economy.”
“When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!”
Source: HOA Wire
“When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.”
“When they say your idea is crazy or unattainable, it's a sign to start.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
“When they see the sun setting, do the birds go in a frenzy to stop him or dance in his exuberance through the day?”
“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.”
“When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.”
“When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.”
Source: The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970
“When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.”
“When they show up messy, believe it’s not a glitch—it’s the manual.”
“When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.”
“When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.”
“When they sprinkle on the soul
Colours make you vibrant from within
Let your aura be covered with so much vividity
That the hues and your demeanor twin”
“When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.”
Source: The Savage Garden
“When they start something for the artists to promote talent and art, but their focus and emphasis is on business side of whatever they started .They are going to sideline other artist and going to kill the spirit of art in others, because they are trying to make business out of artists forgetting how important is the artist and the art itself.”
“When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."”
“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”