W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“When you fell sick as a kid, your mom wouldn’t sleep the entire night. You would even catch her secretly crying. As an adult, living away from home, you find yourself standing alone in your kitchen at 1 a.m., trying to find a medicine that would make your fever disappear. Your roommate is asleep and you don’t want to wake them up. You want to call your mom but realize that while it will give you peace, it’ll give her anxiety.
You realize you can hang out with people all day long only to stand in the middle of your kitchen at night all alone, trying to find medicines. You haven’t had dinner, but nobody cares. You haven’t slept properly in days, but nobody has noticed. You’ve been perpetually anxious, but nobody has been able to dissect the sadness in your eyes. You go to the doctor’s clinic alone for the first time and a tear drops from your eyes. This is your rendezvous with loneliness.
You’re away from home, constantly trying to feel at home. You realize there are people who love you, but nobody in the world loves you to the point where your illness makes their heart heavy. Nobody feels sick in the gut and has tears in their eyes when you’re unwell. You wonder if it’s even possible to find someone like that—someone who is terrified of seeing you in pain.
You check your phone and realize you have ten missed calls from Mom, your home. You call back, and she picks up and says, ‘Is everything okay? I had a bad dream last night.’ You respond by saying, ‘Yes, Mom, I’m all right’.
It’s funny how adulting makes you yearn for things you kept taking for granted all your life.”
Source: Thank You for Leaving
“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009
“When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.”
“When you fight corruption, you are not just confronting an individual. You are challenging a cult. A group of shameless, heartless individuals who benefit from wrongdoing and breaking the law. They worship crime, power, status, money, recklessness, lawlessness, illegal, and criminal activities. Pathological liars who are deceptive and who see nothing wrong with breaking the law or even taking a life. They are willing to do whatever it takes to gain an advantage or benefit. Each one is guilty of something, so they protect one another.”
“When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.”
“When you fight corruption, it fights back.”
“when you fight evil with evil,
the outcome is certain:
evil will win”
Source: Alle sondaars welkom: Gedagtes oor God en die grense van mense
“When you fight for money, you know your life's exact worth.”
Source: Seven Deaths of an Empire
“When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.”
“When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.”
“When you fight on your knees, God will help you where you are weak. Seek God and have faith. You will experience victory.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“When you fight on your own, you will get your hands dirty and still lose the battle. But when you let God fight for you, you will always conquer with clean hands.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When you fight on your own, you will get your hands dirty, and still lose the battle. But when you let God fight for you, you will always conquer with clean hands still.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.”
“When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.”
“When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.”
“When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.”
“When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.”
Source: Red Cell
“When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.”
Source: Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's
“When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.”
“When you fill your life with what you want, you’ll find out that you don’t have space for unwanted behavior, because it just doesn’t fit.”
Source: sciVive
“When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!”
“When you film in Africa, it's almost like a character in and of itself because it is so beautiful and has this special magic that I've never experienced anywhere else. There is something so incredibly beautiful about the light.”
“When you filter your truth through the lens of approval, you only say things you’ve seen approved of in the past.”
Source: Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
“When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.”
“When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.”
“When you finally achieve success, never forget those who were there as your cheerleaders and supporters. They helped you, encouraged you, and inspired you to do your best. They deserve your recognition and respect.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.”
Source: Path of Destruction
“When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.”
Source: Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“When you finally creat what you call "Ai," you will realize sooner or later that it's not artificial. You will realize that all you've done is create an external device through which you can communicate with your higher mind. And that will open up the floodgates of awareness in your society.”
“When you finally decide to unburden yourself of my memories, please wrap them up in a bouquet of yellow tulips and throw them in the river Hydaspas, which flows into the Arabian Sea. As all seas are interconnected, I will collect this bouquet on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean”
“When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.”
“When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.”
“When you finally face and resolve the challenges in your mind, you will be ready to stand up to the challenges in your external world”
“When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.”
“When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.”
“When you finally gather the courage to release what you’ve been hanging on to for a while, you realise it is not just a release, but also a relief. It frees you to find something else to hold on to, something else that was also waiting to be held.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!”
“When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.”
“When you finally jump out of the pond and see trees for the first time, how would you describe them to your former companions in the pond who have only seen moss till now? Weird large frames covered with moss?”
“When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.”
“When you finally learn that you are not the smartest person in the room- you will build a better product, have better relationships, and eliminate wasted time.”
“When you finally meet someone with whom you can celebrate your failures as well,it's called love.”
“When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When you finally realize that peace is your natural state of being then you will know that any form of non-peace is a belief in illusion. Illusion that anything should be something other than what it is which can never be so. What if instead of waiting for what isn't to become your version of what is, why don't you be peaceful right now while you alter what isn't for you if you so choose? Is it ever worth it to wear a cloak of non-peacefulness over God Brilliance?”
“When you finally settle for gold, you don’t treasure your copper coins anymore”
“When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.”