W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.”
Source: Sex God
“When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.”
“When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.”
“When we depend on the outside world for our happiness, there are billions of causes that can take away our joy. We need to find an anchor which can tie us to our happiness like a ship is tied to the shoreline. We need to board this big ship to achieve stability and protect ourselves from the uncertain waves of life.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.”
“When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there when we got back. Well, it won’t be. If it is, some important questions need to be asked.”
Source: Post-Deployment Wisdom For The Returning Service Member
“When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.”
“When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.”
Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow
“When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.”
Source: At Large
“When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.”
Source: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
“When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.”
“When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.”
“When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”
“When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.”
“When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems”
“When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.”
“When we develop the habit of appreciating others, they too appreciate us. This creates a virtuous cycle of appreciation in which there is mutual respect and admiration.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.”
“When we devote heart, soul, mind, and strength to loving him, we perceive ourselves rightly - no room for pride or self-exaltation - which prepares us to love our neighbour freely. Rightly perceiving ourselves to be unworthy recipients of the agape of God, we become willing to love our neighbour in spite of himself because God first loved us in spite of ourselves. We do not wait to feel love; rather, we will ourselves to act in love whether we feel it or not. Agape transcends our feelings.”
Source: In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
“When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!”
“When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.”
“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.”
“When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.”
Source: The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:
“When we did not know God, we did not live according to His plan; we planned our lives independently and we had lives full of ups and downs”
“When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.”
Source: Housekeeping
“When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.”
“When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.”
“When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.”
“When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.”
“When we die, I believe we go to a better place: nowhere.”
“When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.”
“When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.”
“When we die the only judge we have is ourselves. We see our life played out in a hologram of knowledge that our earth souls cannot understand. We see all at once how each word and each action affected the lives of the people around us. How a moment of kindness can change a life and a sharp word can affect someone for ever. Words and actions are far more powerful than we realise. It's the pebble-in-the-lake effect-even the tiniest pebble thrown into water will create ripples right across the lake. We don't need to be punished because, when we have viewed the consequences of our actions on all the souls we have met, we have remorse enough. I believe there is no external judge. We must face ourselves.”
“When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.”
“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
Source: The Road Home
“When we die, we come bac different. Like, with greener eyes, or as some far off star.”
“When we die, we live on in our children.”
“When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.”
Source: Maya
“When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.”
“When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...”
“When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.”
Source: Haunted
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
“When we died, the only things we’d leave behind of importance were our deeds. Our corpses would rot and our treasured belongings would wind up in someone else’s house or in a landfill. Our clothes don’t tell the stories of our lives, and no one would remember what kind of dishes we had. But they’d remember the thing we’ve done. Our actions would live on and tell the stories of our lives long after we’d vanished from the earth.”
Source: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
“When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.”
“When we dig a well, we get muddy water before clean water. A thirsty person would swallow the muddy water and become sick.
Only those who are detached from the thirst can be patient at the finishing line where nectar is often hidden behind poison.”