W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”
“When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.”
Source: Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians
“When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.”
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
“When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.”
“When you see something that is wrong, there is something that has to be right.”
“When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.”
“When you see something, your mind rushes to put labels on it: table, chair, good, bad etc. Sacred space is a space where your mind doesn't feel need to label anything. It relaxes, allowing you to go inward. That space can be sea shore, forest, mountain, beloved's arms or a temple. For awakened ones, every inch is sacred.”
“When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there.”
“When you see sparkling lights with no physical origin and no medical eye issues, it means that you are seeing Angel Lights, which are the energies of your Guardian Angels and Archangels moving around you.”
“When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.”
“When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.”
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.”
“When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.”
“When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.”
“When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.”
“When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.”
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.”
“When you see that what you are waiting for is not worth the wait, you need to put this waiting nonsense aside and switch to a new strategy: The strategy of not waiting, the strategy of 'looking for what you want to find without waiting'!”
“When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.”
“When you see that you're making other things feel good, it gives you a good feeling, too.
The feeling inside sort of just happens, and you can't say this did it or that did it. It's the many little things. It doesn't seem that taking sweat-soaked harnesses off tired, hot horses would be something that would make you notice. Opening a barn door for the sheep standing out in a cold rain, or throwing a few grains of corn to the chickens are small things, but these little things begin to add up in you, and you can begin to understand that you're important. You may not be real important like people who do great things that you read about in the newspaper, but you begin to feel that you're important to all the life around you. Nobody else knows or cares too much about what you do, but if you get a good feeling inside about what you do, then it doesn't matter if nobody else knows. I do think about myself a lot when I'm alone way back on the place bringing in the cows or sitting on a mowing machine all day. But when I start thinking about how our animals and crops and fields and woods and gardens sort of all fit together, I then get that good feeling inside and don't worry much about what will happen to me.”
Source: Feed My Sheep
“When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.”
“When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.”
“When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.”
“When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”
“When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.”
“When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery."”
“When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.”
“When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!”
“When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see the face. The face comes in darkness because it would be too beautiful to see. If there were such a thing as a holy person, a god, with a halo around his head, you wouldn't be able to see his face because the beauty would be terrifying.”
“When you see the mega-stars doing really, really well, it gives you hope that you could probably do that too.”
“When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.”
“When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“When you see the need, take the action.”
“When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.”
“When you see the results, you forget the pain.”
“When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.”
“When you see the sadness, failure, and darkness
Find the opportunity to turn on the light of success.”
“When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?”
“When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.”
“When you see the Sun setting over the horizon, you feel like you've entered into a beautiful art piece. A meditative mind gets that feeling 24×7. The world feels like an art village for those who walk through it slowly.”
“When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.”
“When you see the truth for the first time, it is what people call a peak moment, or a moment of clarity. You get a larger percentage of what each moment of life actually contains; you are filled with life. Your mind is the gatekeeper of life, and sometimes it lets a little true life in, but most of the time it does not.
Without the mind blocking life, you receive all of life, true life, and reflect it all back out.
Seeing Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon for the first time is a peak moment for most people. Why does it make you feel so alive? Nothing really happens to you. Why doesn’t it feel as good the second time you see it? You are seeing the same thing. The reason is, your mind opens up when something is special.
The truth is, every moment of life is special, and you can be completely open to life most of the time. You have to see the truth to see true life.”
Source: The Present
“When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.”
Source: Five complete Travis McGee novels
“When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.”
“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”
Source: Buried Child
“When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.”