W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.”
“When they subtract or divide,
we add and multiply.”
Source: Role Modelship: Multiply Your Impact to Influence AI
“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.”
“When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.”
“When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.”
“When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.”
Source: In the belly of the beast: letters from prison
“When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.”
“When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.”
“When they tell only lies,
you've no choice but to tell only truth.
The Equalizer comes a knocking
and so you answer,
or else the door gets kicked down.
But be sure you have faced the mirror
on your worst day
before you attempt to balance the scales.
If someone was able to deceive you,
there is self-deception within
waiting to be discovered.”
Source: Will to Flutter: Transformation is Inevitable
“when they tell you god spoke the world into being
they mean Eve moaned from the earth
red clay under her fingernails
Lilith’s road wrapped all around her like smoke in the air and
bigfuckingbang
there it all was”
“When they tell you that they don't even think about you... That is the time you must call it off... Don't beg someone to be with you... Let them go and set yourself free...”
“When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.”
“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.”
“When they (the men, the scavengers)
come for you, do not give yourself
to them so easily.
Wear your strength like armour,
fight like a beast.
Do not let them tell you that
you belong to them.
Be fearless.
Be a lion.
Be like lava.
Rip them apart,
and burn their bones.
And when you are done,
tell the world that
you belong to no man.
That you are a lady,
a warrior,
a tsunami,
and you belong only to yourself.”
Source: The Sky Is Purple
“When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.”
“When they thought they are done with you. May you rise and come back stronger just like France in the World Cup final in Qatar. May you have a fighting spirit just like Kylian Mbappe and never give up no matter the circumstances.”
“When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.”
“When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.”
Source: Perelandra
“When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.”
“When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'”
“When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.”
“When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.”
“When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.”
“When they torture me, they show they're weak.
When I survive, I show them I'm stronger.”
Source: Everybody Sees the Ants
“When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.”
Source: Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
“When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.”
“When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.”
“When they try to judge you,
remember, they themselves are judged.
When they try to condemn you,
remember, they themselves are condemned.
When they try to break you,
remember, they themselves are broken.
When they try to hurt you,
remember, they themselves are hurting.”
“When they turn the sun
on again I'll plant children
under it, I'll light up my soul
with a match and let it sing.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.”
Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories
“When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.”
“When they’ve done their emotional housekeeping, people with dominant Seductor Imposters can be brilliant partners: pleasure-seeking and compassionate sensualists who are good at forging deep connections”
“When they want you in secret they don’t really want you. They want the adventure. Give them one by telling them where they can go.”
“When they wanted to borrow my money,
They contacted me night and day,
And now it's time to pay me back,
They suddenly disappeared”
“When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.”
“When they watched The Third Man, which was often, too often in Charlotte's opinion, her mother would pause on the two graveyard scenes, the first when the man who was not Harry Lime was disinterred, the second where the real Harry Lime took his place. "That's our grave," she would say. "Or pretty damn close to it.”
Source: Badlands
“When they were being blessed, there was no limit-now I am blessing others- I am giving too much!!”
“When they were broke,
They called me SEVEN days a week,
And the minute they received a windfall,
They passed and refused to speak”
“When they were children at Loeanneth they'd spent the summer in and out of the water, their skin turning brown beneath the sun, their hair bleaching almost white. Despite her weak chest, Clemmie had been the most outdoorsy of them all, with her long, skinny foal's legs and windblown nature. She should have been born later. She should have been born now. There were so many opportunities these days for girls like Clemmie. Alice saw them everywhere, spirited, independent, forthright, and focused. Mighty girls unbounded by society's expectations. They made her glad, those girls, with their nose rings and their short hair and their impatience with the world. Sometimes Alice felt she could almost glimpse her sister's spirit moving in them.
Clemmie had refused to speak to anyone in the months after Theo disappeared. Once the police had done their interviews, she'd shut her mouth, tight as a clam, and behaved as if her ears had switched off too. She'd always been eccentric, but it seemed to Alice, looking back, that during the late summer of 1933 she became downright wild. She hardly returned home, prowling around the airfields, slicing at the reeds by the stream with a sharpened stick, creeping inside the house only to sleep, and not even that most nights. Camping out in the woods or by the stream. God only knew what she ate. Birds' eggs, probably. Clemmie had always had a gift for raiding nests.”
“When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.”
“When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.”
“When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!”
“When they were naming vitamins they must have thought there were going to be way more vitamins than there ended up being. OK let's name these: Vitamin A, Vitamin B... ok man slow down we've got a lot to cover here. B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B12. Then they got to E and they were like 'We're pretty much done. We've got all those damn B's. This is embarrassing. Let's just skip to K and get the hell out of here.”
“When they were only a foot apart, both nude, she swayed toward him. He tugged her close, feeling her shock as heated skin met hot skin. God, he wanted her. His need was something he couldn't hide. Lord was she beautiful. Long, lean, muscled, but gently rounded everywhere.
"Are you--"
Her mouth latched onto his, silencing him as she began to explore his body.
Yeah, he;d have to say...she was sure.”
Source: Scales
“When they were partially up the stairs and mostly out of earshot, Sin looked at Boyd again. 'Don't get killed or I'll be very annoyed with you.”
Source: Evenfall
“When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.”
“When they were still together, when everything was a plural instead of a singular”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“When they were well out of her earshot, Taein swiveled back and glowered at Vince. “You’ve got to throw those away.”
Vince, bouncing awkwardly in the saddle as his draft kept time with Lorrin, looked aghast. “Taein, she gave us muffins.”
“She probably poisoned them, you imbecile,” Taein hissed.
“Why would she do that?” Vince asked, fumbling to keep a hold of his reins and manage a pair of blueberry-dotted muffins at the same time.
“Because she knows I’m the one that stole from her, years back!”
Vince paused before popping an entire muffin into his mouth. “You’re far too paranoid, Taein,” he said as he chewed. “These are blueberry muffins. Suit yourself, but I ain’t throwing these away even if they are poisoned.”
“Well, don’t go blaming me when you keel over. You were duly warned.”
“Me, paying recompense for your poorly-executed crimes? When has that ever happened?” Vince chuckled.”
Source: Prince of Glass: Remastered