W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you look in the mirror, your difficult sibling always looks back, though the image is distorted. In the shadows lurk parts of yourself and your past that you don't want to notice. Behind the reflection, silently influencing the interaction, stand your parents, your grandparents, and all their siblings.”
“When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.”
“When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.”
Source: Writings
“When you look into a certain person's eyes on the ground---even people you have just met---and see a light you have known before... well, that tells you something about them. As a human you don't know why---but your soul remembers.”
Source: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
“When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys”
“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.”
“When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you.”
Source: Wink Poppy Midnight
“When you look into the eyes of an animal youve rescued, you cant help but fall in love.”
“When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?”
“When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.”
“When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?”
“When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
“When you look like I do its hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese.”
“When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.”
“When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.”
“When you look out into the world and you turn on the news and it's just so dark, it's still there. But it's the battle, it's the struggle with that, and at the same time to recognize that happiness and love and all those things exist as well.”
“When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.”
Source: The Fabulous Clipjoint
“When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.”
“When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.”
“When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragile to opportunity”
“When you look through the window of hate, you are really looking in the Devil's mirror.”
“When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.”
“When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.”
“When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.”
“When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?
Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl”
Source: Beautiful Darkness
“When you look up to the sky that you habitually admire, and observe the stars that drift through the night sky, and you find one star, one star in particular that is gleaming noticeably bright, know that that is me saying hello. Make me proud, my star, Brantley Thornton.”
Source: Counting Stars
“when you look up to the stars and there's that little shred of hope, that little ounce of desire, that your special someone is looking up the same time you are.”
“When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?”
“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.”
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.”
“When you looked at Meche the first impression was that she was going to punch you in the face; she was made of such strong angles. However, if you looked long enough there was a delicate softness beneath her which manifested in the very long neck, the graceful fingers which were meant to play instruments, the petite frame. She was a knot of contradictions and these, thrown together, created an interesting composition.”
Source: Signal to Noise
“When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.”
Source: Underdog
“When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.”
Source: Beauty Queens
“When you loose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.”
“When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.”
Source: Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve every day because of the child you could have had”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”
“When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".”
“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This guy was killed fighting for you. Don't forget him--ever. Keep him in your mind when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Don't think of him as the statistic which changes 38,788 casualties to 38,789. Think of him as a guy who wanted to live every bit as much as you do. Don't let him be just one of 'Our Brave Boys' from the old home town, to whom a marble monument is erected in the city park, and a civic-minded lady calls the newspaper ten years later and wants to know why that 'unsightly stone' isn't removed.”
Source: Up Front
“When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).”
“When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.”
“When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain.”
“When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.”
“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”