W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.”
“When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.”
“When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”
“When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.”
“When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.”
“When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending.”
“When this reality, the one and only power that checks and disciplines man from within, vanishes because belief in it is slackening, the social domain falls prey to passions. The ensuing vacuum is filled by the gas of emotion. Everyone proclaims what best suits his interests, his whims, his intellectual manias. To escape the void and the perplexities of his own soul, a man will rush to join any party standard that is being carried through the streets. With society gone there remain only parties.”
Source: Concord and Liberty
“When this song come on, I'm spending money...Play something I can spend some money to.”
“When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.”
“When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.”
“When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!”
“When this wave comes over me and I feel the hollow in my heart that's been there ever since my mum died. Loss does that to you, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.”
Source: Holding Up the Universe
“When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.”
“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.”
“When Thomas thought of his father peace stole across his chest and covered him like sunlight.”
Source: The Night Watchman
“When Thorn finally pulled away, short of breath, it was to stare sternly straight through her glasses.
"I warn you, the words you said to me, I won't let you go back on them." His voice was harsh, but underlining the authority of his words, there was some sort of crack.
Ophelia could see the quickened pulse in the hands he was awkwardly pressing to her cheeks. She had to admit her own heart was swinging to and fro. Thorn was, without doubt, the most disconcerting man she'd ever met. But he did make her feel wonderfully alive.
"I love you," she repeated firmly.”
Source: A Winter's Promise / The Missing of Clairdelune / The Memory of Babel
“When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.”
“When those closest to you betray your trust, remember that God's love and closeness are greater than any human relationship. His faithfulness and loyalty will never falter. 'Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me' (Psalm 27:10). God's presence in your life is a constant source of comfort and strength. In times of betrayal, turn to Him and find solace in His unwavering love. 'The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit' (Psalm 34:18).”
“When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.”
“When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power”
“When those in power get busy counting coins, those with lot of coins come to power soon.”
“When those in power mishandle public resources and send thugs to invade our properties, citizens have few options but to protest.”
“When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.”
“When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.”
“When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.”
“When those of us in the academy who are working class or from working-class backgrounds share our perspectives, we subvert the tendency to focus only on the thoughts, attitudes, and experiences of those who are materially privileged.”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"”
“When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.”
“When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.”
“When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.”
“When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
Source: The Cases Nobody Wanted
“When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.”
“When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.”
Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“When those who do justice are unjust or provide justice with unjust means all justice falls apart.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“When those who dominate you get you to take the initiative in your own human destruction, you have lost more than any oppressed people yet has ever gotten back.”
Source: Intercourse
“When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.”
“When those who had been evicted went back to where they came from, they found their villages had disappeared under great dams and dusty quarries. Their homes were occupied by hunger-and policemen. The forests were filling up with armed guerrillas. They found that the wars from the edge of India, in Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur, had migrated to its heart. People returned to live on city streets and pavements, in hovels on dusty construction sites, wondering which corner of this huge country was meant for them.”
Source: Capitalism: A Ghost Story
“When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.”
“When those who left us left their wills in our hands it is our sacred duty to carry it forth it remains that's my choice”
“When those who must do the fighting have the right to decide between war and peace, history will no longer be written in blood.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“When those who truly pushed the box have no say in which direction the box goes, our home is left with one of the most common problems in the known world.
With even the boxes, scratching their heads.”
“When those who were never meant to be artists, pursue art - it means these people live in a place resembling paradise.”
“When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.”
“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”
“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Source: Don Quixote
“When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all.”
Source: Morning and Evening: New International Version
“When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.”