W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.”
Source: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
“Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.”
“Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.”
“Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."”
“Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet around a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders and blood.”
“Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.”
“Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.”
“Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.”
“Whenever Gaubert felt bored, he took hold of the hammer with both hands, raised it, and struck the anvil. He went on like that, for no purpose, just for the sound, to hear the sound. His life was in each of those strokes. The sound of the anvil echoed through the countryside and sometimes came upon Panturle while he was hunting.”
Source: Regain
“Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence”
“Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.”
“Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”
“Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.”
“Whenever God is conceived in the soul, it is always an allowing, never an accomplishment.”
Source: Just This
“Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.”
“Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.”
“Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.”
“Whenever God thinks of you, he has your best interests in mind; he has plans to take you further, deeper, and higher than you ever dreamed. This process begins when you seek God and spend time with him. Look for every opportunity to know God. Consider your daily schedule. What does it include? A workout at the gym? A trip to the post office? A lunch hour? A commute? Look for ways to include God in your activities. Invite God to accompany you by talking together. Look for moments- even if it's only ten or twenty seconds- to steal away with him. God will reward your efforts as you reshape your inner life to be focused around him. As you seek God, you will find yourself abiding in him." -Hungry for God”
Source: Hungry for God: Hearing God's Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday
“Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.”
“Whenever God wants to move on the Earth, He raises a man to pray His will down, either by intercession, prophesy,
acts of faith or confessions.”
Source: The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth
“Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.”
“Whenever golden boughs spring from rotting tree trunks, mortal man has great difficulty in accepting their provenance. And yet the evidence of their eyes presents the blinding truth.”
“Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.”
Source: Irish Affairs
“Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.”
“Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.”
Source: An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness
“Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.”
“Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was enthusiastically promoted. Historically, society has only wanted the "right kind of people" to have a right to life. We shouldn't forget that fact.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”
“Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.”
“Whenever he contemplated death, he felt he would miss thinking most of all. There was a delicate pleasure of thought and sensation. The awareness of it. The inner voice of thoughtless reasoning, effortless analyzing, ceaseless tingling. It was the only thing a person had if everything were taken away from them. It was what continued to exist before they touched any object or heard any sound once awaken from slumber. That personal conversation was irreplaceable. Andrei would be upset at death, whenever it came, because of what it entailed: no longer being able to look down and see one’s hands. No longer being able to feel a breathing belly. No longer able to wonder, or to remember a memory. It surprised him, in such a stupid, sad way, that there was no save button in life. Yes, yes, we die, I get it, he thought, but for some reason, he’d pathetically assumed he could take something with him. That death would be okay because at least he would still be able to reflect. In theory, he would die and get to say, “Whew, I died. Now let’s think about it.” But he wouldn’t. All the memories he had earned would wash away instantly. The work done on oneself could not be transferred. He would not trim his fingernails or have the chance to check out another woman’s ass ever again. Death was flat. Aliveness had texture.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.”
Source: The House of Hades
“Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.”
Source: Ruby Red
“Whenever he realizes that a female is more gifted than him, the average man subconsciously consoles himself with the fact that she does not have even a tiny penis.”
“Whenever he required a small burst of fireworks to his heart, he would remove the folder from the bedside drawer and look at the contents while enjoying a beer or seven.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Whenever he sat in the swingset it got tangled up. He said it was demons in the steel that were drawn to the sweat & sorrow of the steelworkers across the generations. Plastic doesn't have those sorts of problems yet, he said.”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.”
“Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Whenever he was bored or anxious, his brain distracted itself by worrying at the question of whether he could ever make Anna like him, like a dog working the last bits of marrow from a bone.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.”
“Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Whenever his eye or mind seems to stop, he discovers another connection, another bridge to carry him to yet another place, and even in the solitude of his room, the world has been rushing in on him at a dizzying speed, as if it were all suddenly converging in him and happening to hm at once.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“Whenever his eyes happen to graze Mindy's, she senses shame on her behalf: because of her prettiness; because she sleeps with Lou; because she keeps telling herself this trip constitutes anthropological research into group dynamics and ethnographic enclaves, when really what she's after is luxury, adventure, and a break from her four insomniac roommates.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Whenever his mother was not lying on her back or down on her knees working, she would spend her money getting high.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.”
“Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.”
“Whenever human beings consciously change their thought vibrations they can change their life. Mantras are the thought vibrations.”
Source: Mantra Design Fundamentals - Basics of mantra forms, structures, compositions, and formulas
“Whenever HUman take any adoption of animals, birds fish etc etc. Except Dogs and cats [ **Note with freedom ] - it's as same as caging/punishing HUman itself. Because : Sky is the limit of Birds, Ocean/Rivers/Lakes are the limits of Fishes and For animals their self marked Territory is the limit. Some how we HUmans by adoption as Pets take their freedom of existence/life.”