W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When what happens outside strikes a chord with what is inside, that is the essence of the moment—and that is when the artist should make the photograph.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been brought about by the knowledge of God through the practice of the virtues has reached maturity, it starts to grow anew. For the end of one stage constitutes the starting point of the next.”
“When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“When what is is congruent to what is supposed, the reaction is functional and the mental processes competent. When what is and what is supposed have nothing to do with each other, the choice of reactions is random. Something tears.”
Source: City of a Thousand Suns
“When what looks imperative to you does not touch the heart of others around you, it’s a beckoning sign that you have a call to that assignment.”
“When what makes other people sleep keeps you awake every night, it is a sign that you are called into the assignment of a revivalists, reformers and change agents.”
“When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When what they feel evokes something familiar in you, you’re likely to mimic their emotions unconsciously.”
Source: Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships
“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”
“When what we have mastered becomes mundane, we feel pain. The antidote is pursuit.”
Source: Success Hangover: Ignite your next act. Screw your status quo. Feel alive again.
“When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.”
“When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I wanted to be myself, and it slowly turned into not being me at all, so I just didn't really see the point. If the music actually happens, at some point, it will be because some underground following happened, or some little elves heard it and were leaking it.”
“When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!”
“When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.”
“When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.”
“When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.”
“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”
“When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.”
“When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.”
“When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.”
“When- when are you taking me there?' If I had to go underground, had to see those kinds of horrors again... I'd beg him- beg him not to take me. I didn't care how pathetic it made me. I'd lost any sort of qualms about what lines I'd cross to survive.
'I'm not.' He rolled his shoulders. 'This is my home, and the court beneath it is my... occupation, as you mortals call it. I do not like for the two to overlap very often.'
My brows rose slightly. '"You mortals"?'
Starlight danced along the planes of his face. 'Should I consider you something different?'
A challenge, I shoved away my irritation at the amusement again tugging at the corners of his lips, and instead said, 'And the other denizens of your court?' The Night Court territory was enormous- bigger than any other in Prythian. And all around us were those empty, snow-blasted mountains. No sign of towns, cities, or anything.
'Scattered throughout, dwelling as they wish. Just as you are now free to roam where you wish.'
'I wish to roam home.'
Rhys laughed.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“When? When?
How eagerly I've been waiting.
Now that you are here
What more do I want?”
Source: Zen Fool Ryokan
“When? When?
How eagerly I've been waiting.
Now that you are here
What more do I want?
いついつと
待ちにし人は
来たりけり
今は会ひ見て
何か思はむ”
Source: Zen Fool Ryokan
“When---when I dance," she said quietly. "When I dance, I---I forget all the---the bad things."
"I---I only remember the good things. That is the b-best thing about d-dancing.”
Source: Entwined
“When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.”
Source: Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
“When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence.”
Source: Matches in the Dark: 13 Tales of Gay Men
“when whispered
what an exquisite
song, it makes-
your name.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our “fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.”
Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
“When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.”
“When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.”
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“When white feminism ignores history, ignores that the tears of white women have the power to get Black people killed while insisting that all women are on the same side, it doesn't solve anything. Look at Carolyn Bryant, who lied about Emmett Till whistling at her in 1955. Despite knowing who had killed him, and that he was innocent of even the casual disrespect she had claimed, she carried on with the lie for another fifty years after his lynching and death”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions
“When white people accuse you of "pulling the race card"―don't even deny it! Tell them; "Yeah, it's the only card I've got while you enjoy a full deck.”
“When white people catch a cold, they say, black people get pneumonia.”
Source: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
“When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.”
“When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.”
“When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the expected reader. A reader like this is used to the practice of reading being one that may performatively challenge them, much the way a safari guides a tourist through the “wilderness”—but ultimately always prioritizes their comfort and understanding.”
Source: How to Read Now
“When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.”
Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
“When Whiteness Collapses (Sonnet)
When the whites benefit from privilege,
it's part and parcel of colonial heritage,
but when a giant rises from the marginals,
it eclipses the shallow heights of whiteness.
I'm colored, I'm scientist,
I'm poet, I'm polyglot -
coming from zero money,
I won the world with words.
Try and get your puny white brains
around this existence enigma -
compile your white canons of a century,
and they turn bleak next to just one year
of multicultural, multidisciplinary Naskar.
I never grovelled to be included,
I let my vastness out,
and the world queues for my grace.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.”
“When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.”
“When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.”
“When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.”
“When wholeness is now and here, reform is everywhere. When oneness is now and here, uplift is everywhere. When the human is now and here, humanity is everywhere.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”
“When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred