W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory.”
Source: Sins of the Assassin
“When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.”
Source: In the Miso Soup
“When you're in bad mood,
you find jerk on anywhere.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When you're in bed to-night think not of wars,
But rather of the Panda fast asleep,
Her piebald head cushioned on woolly paws;
Or think of velvet mice that warmly creep
Into their holes to curl up round and soft.
Transfer your thoughts from bellicose affairs;
Though it be true that bombers fly aloft,
Try to reflect on little furry bears.
- Sleeping Mixture”
Source: Consider the Years
“When you're in doubt, glitter it out”
“When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.”
Source: Half a King
“When you're in love and get hurt, it's like a cut—it will heal, but the scar will remain forever.”
“When you’re in love, there’s no need to understand what’s going on, because everything happens inside of you.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara.”
Source: The Apartment
“When you're in love with someone, you want to talk about every single thing in existence with them- while simultaneously saying nothing and just enjoying their presence.”
“When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second person did not fulfill you either. At this point, you have to choose the third person because God is getting a little tired of your inattention and indecisiveness, and is planning on sending a fourth person into your life just to slap you around with the bible for not entering the promised land.”
“When you're in love, you are at peace.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“When you're in love, you put a little bit of yourself in everything you cook.”
Source: Katie in Love
“When you're in love, you're at war.”
Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
“When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it.”
Source: Hounded
“When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.”
Source: Sad cypress
“When you're in the military, you have a sense of purpose, of a larger fight so much bigger than yourself and whatever regiment or battle you've been placed in....Every day, you wake up knowing that you are fighting for morality and liberty, for a cause so good and right that it seems it can't be anything but divinely guided....You work hard all day to move just a tiny sliver closer to the end, and when your head hits your pillow at night, you can sleep well knowing that day to support your men and the cause you're fighting for.”
Source: An Inconvenient Duke
“When you're in the process you have to pray away the unnecessary excess.”
“When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.”
Source: Mule
“When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
Source: The Sixth Borough
“When you're in the throes of what feels like all-consuming pain, sleep is respite. It's your last refuge from the unrelenting guerilla attacks carried out against you by your own mind.”
Source: I've never been (Un)happier
“When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. You’re just alone with yourself. You look around and lose yourself in the mountains, rivers, forests or tundra, but you can see nothing except for the chaos in your own mind. It is fucking terrifying and peaceful at the same time.”
Source: See What Flowers
“When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When you're inside of your home, it should feel like your sanctuary. A haven for comfort, inspiration, safety, and love.
Invest in ways to create that type of atmosphere for yourself. Aesthetically and security-wise.”
“When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“When you’re leaving the house, there’s an ever so small statistical probability that you’ll get robbed while you’re out. You should really only bring the necessary wallet, keys, and phone.”
Source: sciVive
“When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.”
Source: Cry Silent Tears: The Horrific True Story of the Mute Little Boy in the Cellar
“When you're living an illusion, spren-nimi, be very careful not to do anything to spoil it. Because once you do, it is exceedingly difficult to recapture your audience.”
Source: Wind and Truth
“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.”
Source: I Love Dick
“When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.”
Source: Cobalt Blue
“When you’re looking for every opportunity to stroke your own ego, you will lose most of your relationships along the way.”
Source: Humble: Free Yourself from the Traps of a Narcissistic World
“When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions.”
“When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep...
"I should have"
"If only I'd"
"I wish I'd"
...grab one of them and turn it into an "I will" and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.”
“When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.”
“When you're married, our counselor had told us, happiness is like a joint banking account; it becomes full or depleted in tandem.”
Source: The Isle of Youth: Stories
“When you’re married, you’re privy to the misunderstanding. When you’re not married, it’s overrated.” I try to smile. “You rush in, headlong, full of dreams and wishes, so far removed from reality that you never even realize you’ve married into a family and the Navy. One refers to you as the girl from L.A., and the other refers to you as the dependent spouse.”
Source: When I See You
“When you're meant to do something, life will have a way of giving you no option but follow the road you're meant to walk.”
Source: Marker of Hope
“When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.”
“When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is the spin of a gun cylinder, every decision pointing the barrel at your head. Over and over, again and again, you pull the trigger, hoping it won't be your last turn in the game.”
Source: Reignite
“When you’re not around, your reputation will speak for you.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”
“When you're not sure which of two or three methods to use, then try all of them on a simple problem and see which one gives you the answer that you know is right.”
Source: Learning All the Time
“When you're 'nothing', you're the origin of your reality. When you're a body-mind, you're the prisoner of your reality.”
“When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.”
Source: Conqueror
“When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“When you're on the path to do what's right, you're never alone.”
Source: Rescuing Ladybugs: Inspirational Encounters with Animals That Changed the World
“When you're on the worst kind of job, audacity's the only thing that'll get you through it: being willing to do something so stupid, there's no way anyone could see it coming.”
Source: Steel Crow Saga