W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.”
“When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.”
“When We Voluntarily Embrace Healthy Rules-Both Socially And In Our Personal Lives-We Can Ensure Peace And Harmony In This World”.”
“When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.”
“When we wait for the unexpected, we open a philosophical and phenomenological dialogue about presence, absence, perception, and the psychological tension of expectation. .( “Waiting for the Unexpected”)”
“When we wait on the Lord in prayer, all of heaven moves into action.”
Source: 7 ROOMS OF THE Lord's Prayer
“When we wake, it’s officially Christmas Eve.”
“Good. Because I have something special to give you.”
She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. “Thought you just did.”
He chuckled, a deep and throaty sound. “Something else.”
Source: Dark Pursuit
“When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.”
“When we wake up in the middle of the night to attend the nature’s call, we try to stay sleepy. That is one of the most pleasant feelings.
When realized people come out of their state of realization to do worldly chores, they get even better feeling which is called Bliss.”
“When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.”
“When we wake up in the morning (he thought), it's the first task that lies ahead of us: the separation of the true from the false. We have to dismiss, to erase the mocking kingdoms made by sleep. But at the close of day it was the other way round, and we sought the untrue and the fictitious, sometimes snapping ourselves awake in our hunger for nonsensical connections.”
Source: The Pregnant Widow
“When we wake up in the morning, You are here with us. When we sleep at night, You sing over us.”
Source: RISE UP: Believing God When the World is Falling Apart
“When we wake up to the fact that our thoughts touch the people we are thinking about, we are again asked to choose which thoughts we send out. If we send out the thoughts of the heart, we can heal, even if the person who needs healing is far away.”
“When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”
Source: Annihilation: A Novel
“When we walk a mile in another's moccasins, we can sympathize in a way that one cannot with just a pure clinical perspective.”
Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.”
“When we walk in the flesh, we try to win arguments with words, change people with pressure, and fight spiritual battles with carnal methods. But the kingdom of God operates differently. We can't silence demons and their agents with our temper or logic. Instead, we walk in the Spirit, relying on God's power and wisdom. In the Spirit, we speak with authority, not aggression, and trust in God's sovereignty. It's in the stillness and quiet confidence of the Spirit that we find true power and victory.”
“When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.”
Source: Collected Poems
“When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
“When we walk out of our boundaries, we find out that knowledge is not a completion or a windfall, but a long process of revisions or adjustments. Likewise, we recognize that wisdom results from the painful filtering of experiences we collect on the bumpy path of life. ‘("Loss of benchmarks")”
“When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty”
“When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.”
Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right
“When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.”
“When we walk with God, we don't need to rush. Your worth isn't found in what you do or how quickly you move. It's found in who holds your hand.”
Source: Take a Breath with Him Companion Guidebook - Experiencing God When You're Getting Back On Your Feet
“When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.”
“When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.”
Source: The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size
“When we walked into the grand foyer, with a chandelier that would have been at home in Buckingham Palace, I gave him a strained smile. Did people really live this way?”
Source: The Last Mrs. Parrish
“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.”
“When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.”
“When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small....Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value.”
“When we want better families, better neighbors, better friends, and better schools we shall turn our backs on national and global systems, on expert experts and specialist specialties and begin to make our own schools one by one, far from the reach of systems.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.”
“When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward”
Source: The Pilgrimage
“When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“When we want to be a support - get stronger.”
“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.”
“When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.”
“When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.”
“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”
“When we want to infuse new ideas,
to modify or better the habits and customs of a people,
to breathe new vigor into its national traits,
we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.”
“When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.”
Source: Fellowship with God
“When we want to let go of a situation no matter what it is we must be able to "bless" it. When you bless something you sanction it giving it your approval and endorsement freeing it to go forward with your cooperation and support.”
Source: When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back
“When we want to like someone, our mind gives their negative points a positive spin.
When we want to dislike someone, mind gives their positive points a negative spin. Watch the mind!”
“When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.”
Source: Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas
“When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.”
“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.”
Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw
“When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.”