W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'”
“When we would go camping in rural Wales, we would get sick. What I did not realize at the time was the sickness was a detoxification reaction from the toxic city environment that we normally lived in.”
“When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.”
“When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“When we would work with the high powered industrial sodium LASER, we would only wear a pair of LASER eye glasses. We were not told that it potentially could affect the skin.”
Source: Summit Brain
“When we wrapped Resident Evil, we were a 3D movie, but it was no big deal. And then, Avatar came out and the whole of Hollywood was like, "Look at these grosses! 3D is huge. Let's all be 3D!" We just got on with doing what we were doing, which was making what we think is a really quality, kick-ass 3D movie, and we'll really be the first live-action 3D movie of the year.”
“When we wrestle with the existence of evil, we can find solace in knowing that God walks alongside us, offering His grace and working tirelessly to bring healing and redemption to a broken world.”
“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”
Source: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.”
“When we write, overwhelmed with tear-filled eyes, not knowing how to shape the story, it is then that the most powerful words come out, exploding from inside, with a desire to live again, hoping to see the light of life. It is then that the story begins.”
“When we write stories that are happy, with little conflict or inference of sin, then we are creating portraits of the world that perpetuate a sort of "soft universalism," the idea that no one is truly lost but rather that all are actually saved.”
Source: God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind”
Source: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
“When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.”
“When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"”
“When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.”
“When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.”
“When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.”
“When we zoom freely into the ‘now’ and surrender readily to a liberating emptiness, we can be instantly overwhelmed by creative surging strength and a flash of enlightenment, expelling the cloudy specters blurring our minds. ("Quest for the real moment")”
“When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.”
“When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists”
“When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.”
“When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.”
“When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.”
“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.”
“When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.”
Source: Sever
“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?”
Source: The Road
“When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.”
“When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.”
“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.”
“When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”
Source: Second Glance
“When we're being grateful it means that we're acknowledging that life is a gift, that life is a blessing, that this body is only here for a short period of time and it really shifts the whole internal landscape of the mind and it puts things into perspective and it allows us to get our bearings. To get a firm footing in what's real, and then go from there.”
“When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.”
“When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.”
“When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.”
“When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.”
“When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.”
“When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.”
“When we're connected to others, we become better people.”
Source: The last lecture
“When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.”
“When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.”
“When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.”
“When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.”
“When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.”
Source: Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.”
“When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.”
“When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.”
“When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.”
“When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.”
“When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.”