W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.”
Source: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip: On the Road of the Longest Two-Week Family Road Trip in History
“When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.”
“When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!”
“When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.”
“When voters got to see me as a person, they understood that the caricatures were untrue. I've learned it's harder to hate up close.”
Source: Becoming
“When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.”
“When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When walking alone on the path of discovery, have faith that you are illuminating the way for others to follow.”
“When walking and thinking come together, the solution for your problem will appear on the horizon as well!”
“When walking hand in hand with COVID-19, you must remember from the moment we are born, it is our destiny to leave planet Earth at a time chosen by Mother Nature.”
“When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.”
“When walking in this mode we discover the immense vigour of starry night skies, elemental energies, and our appetites follow: they are enormous, and our bodies are satisfied. When you have slammed the world’s door, there is nothing left to hold you: pavements no longer guide your steps (the path, a hundred thousand times repeated, of the return to the fold). Crossroads shimmer like hesitant stars, you rediscover the tremulous fear of choosing, a vertiginous freedom.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.”
“When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]”
Source: Fate's Edge
“When walking with the strong or with the dead, Do not wear clothes of purple or of red.”
“When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.”
“When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.”
Source: Zen and Now
“When walls creates skies for us, birds that fly higher reminds us that the sky is not the limit”
“When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.”
“When war begins somewhere, the attacking party is guilty; but if the war is going on, then both sides are guilty because when it comes to war the only thing that matters is that the killings stop immediately and if surrender is going to stop the killing then it has to be done! It is unacceptable for the present generations to die for the freedom of the next generations because to live is the right of every generation! Surrender is not defeat, you can surrender and continue the war with non-violent methods!”
“When war begins, then hell openeth.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“When war comes, some flee with great alarm while others step forth and quietly seek directions to the battle.”
“When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.”
“When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.”
“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.”
“When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”
“When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.”
“When war is raging the laws are dumb.”
“When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.”
“When
warmth is in our hearts
there is grace in us
When love is in our hearts
there is harmony in our souls
When
silence is in us
there is peace in the world”
“When warned on one occasion that the unions might become too powerful, he was quoted as replying, "Too powerful for what?" His attitude was that their power should prove an antidote for that of big business.”
Source: FDR
“When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.”
Source: The Black Gryphon
“When wars rage and the wicked cause great harm, the righteous can find refuge in God's unwavering presence. For it is written, 'The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence' (Psalm 11:5). Though the wolf may be at the door, He who is our Rock and Redeemer will deliver us from all our enemies. 'The Lord will rescue his servants; no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned' (Psalm 34:22). In times of turmoil, we can trust in the Lord's sovereignty, for He is our shield and defender. He will never forsake the righteous, but will uphold them with His righteous right hand.”
“When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to see him and I didn't know what flamenco was. But when I saw him play, I was blown away that one man on one instrument could make all that sound. I'd learned a lot, but that made a big impact. I had intuition for it. In about three years I learned most of what I know now.”
“When was Beezy’s birthday?” we’d asked the grown-ups a while ago and been told that Beezy hadn’t celebrated her birthday, not since she could help it. It was a foreign concept to us, not celebrating your birthday, though I suppose when someone dies they become all their ages at once so it doesn’t really matter.”
Source: Idle Grounds
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.”
Source: Kitchen
“When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
Source: Three plays
“When was it that first I heard of the grass harp? Long before the autumn we lived in the China tree; an earlier autumn, then; and of course it was Dolly who told me, no one else would have known to call it that, a grass harp. . .
If on leaving town you take the church road you soon will pass a glaring hill of bonewhite slabs and brown burnt flowers: this is the Baptist cemetery. . . below the hill grows a field of high Indian grass that changes color with the seasons: go to see it in the fall, late September, when it has gone red as sunset, when scarlet shadows light firelight breeze over it and the autumn winds strum on its dry leaves sighing human music, a harp of voices. . .
It must have been on one of those September days when we were there in the woods gathering roots that Dolly said: Do you hear? that is the grass harp, always telling a story -- it knows the stories of all the people on the hill, of all the people who ever lived, and when we are dead it will tell ours, too.”
Source: The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
“When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.”
“When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?”
“When was the last good kiss you had?”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature? I cannot recall. And yet at Yan’an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art could not be separated from politics, and politics needed art in order to reach the people where they lived, through entertaining them.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?”
“When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?”
“When was the last time somebody looked at you? People are just coming before your eyes and saying their dialogues. They are not looking at you.
When someone really looks at you, you will feel that you exist.”
“When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.”
Source: The Storyteller