W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.”
“When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.”
“When will all the rhetorical questions end?”
“When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our mind? When will we complete our de-deification of nature? When may we begin to 'naturalise' humanity in terms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature?”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?”
“When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?”
“When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of these mistakes. One says, ‘I am Chandulal. I am the husband of this woman. I am this boy’s father. I am eighty years old’. So many such mistakes are there! There is a series of such mistakes!! Mistake is indeed at the root of all that!!! ‘This’ is the only misunderstanding’ there is, and that is what has obstructed liberation. And through only one understanding there is liberation.”
“When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?”
Source: Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews
“When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.”
Source: Red Dragon
“When will I escape from the past, or is that a futile task? An unbreakable habit, the negativity reared its ugly head to drag her down, but she quickly pushed back with happier thoughts.”
“When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.”
Source: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
“When will I ever understand that what's astonishing about the number of men who remain faithful is not that it's so small but that there are any of them at all?”
Source: Heartburn
“When will I learn to stop toying with other people’s lives?”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!”
“When will I meet my mirror mind,
When will I meet a mirror of kind!”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“When will I see you? I miss you so much that my soul is simply thirsting! Do you know what, my gold? It’s soon going to be midnight, but down below [on the streets] all around there’s noise and shouting, paper boys crying out—just like at noontime.”
Source: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
“When will it begin, anyway?"
Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand.
"Probably sooner than you're ready for."
"When's that?"
"Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.”
Source: First Kill
“When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?”
“When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”
“When will men see that nothing but the truth can satisfy the longing of the human soul? Religious conceptions which are merely useful and not eternally true are not useful at all. But as it is, a deadly blight of pragmatism has fallen upon the world. The intellect is dethroned and intellectual decadence is rapidly setting in. Men are following the will-o'-the-wisp of a practical religion which shall somehow be independent of facts; they are trying to produce a decent, moral life in this world while denying the basis of morality in the being of God. They have embarked on a vain search for an authority which is merely man-made and can therefore never command the reverence of man.”
Source: God Transcendent
“When will my reflection show who I am inside?”
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948
“When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)”
“When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.”
“When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?”
“When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?”
“When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.”
Source: Medical Ministry
“When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!”
“When will the government admit that blatantly denying Disability and Workers Compensation payments to disabled workers is a dangerous policy.”
“When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.'
'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.
'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.'
'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex.
'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?'
'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex.”
Source: A Prisoner of Birth
“When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise.”
Source: Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit
“When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.”
“When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!”
“When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?”
“When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.”
Source: Echoes of an Autobiography
“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
“When will the world understand
that violence never erupts inadvertently,
that all violence in our times is premeditated and agreed upon
by a small elite that decides in advance
that any nation that rejects malls, consumption, and superficiality,
must be disciplined with free death for those who resist!
It is also agreed upon – and it all costs – that
the minds and souls of all survivors
must permanently be pierced with bullet holes!
[From a poem titled "A Mall and Bullets Holes". Original poem published in Arabic on July 4, 2024 at ahewar.org]”
“When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
“When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?”
“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.”
“When will we all get to be human, Dante?”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
“When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“When will we choose to rise to the greatness embodied in the wholesale expenditure of self, versus choosing to live in the cowardice fed by the preservation of self?”
“When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.”
“When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?”