W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence.”
“Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.”
“Whenever it comes to love, Remember the part about having confidence.”
“Whenever it comes to survival, the word evil loses its meaning.”
“Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.”
“Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.”
Source: Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning”
“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
“Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.”
“Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.”
“Whenever it rains, and its earthy scent -- the petrichor -- hits my senses, memories come flashing and I go back in time.”
“Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!”
Source: Chained: Can you escape fate?
“Whenever it rains you will think of her.”
Source: Fragile Things
“Whenever it storms, their shelters are dismantled first and for long. And the apparent skies are hopeless.”
“Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.”
“Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.”
“Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.”
“Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“Whenever I’m about to have sex with a girl, I play it smart and just automatically assume she has herpes; because that way I don’t have to tell her about my herpes.”
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.”
“Whenever judges of the highest state courts have actually examined the details of the "savage inequalities" that continue to be imposed on most low-income and minority students in the United States, they have virtually unanimously held that these conditions deny students the opportunity to be educated at the basic levels that are needed to function well in contemporary society.”
Source: Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts
“Whenever June needs something, she gets results, but my needs aren't worth a bucket of pig's blood”
Source: Prodigy
“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.”
Source: Civilization in transition
“Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN”
“Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.”
“Whenever land is bought and sold, three stakeholders automatically vie for a cut from the revenue that can be had from land: the community, the property owner, and the institutions that finance property ownership. With land-use rights, the revenue from land value increases is primarily recycled back to the community rather than captured by banks and property owners.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.”
“Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency.”
Source: Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”
Source: Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer
“Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.”
Source: Joanna's Husband and David's Wife
“Whenever love and kindness meet, the world becomes brighter. Let us be the reason they meet again and again.”
“Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.”
Source: Life of Christ
“Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.”
“Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.”
“Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”
“Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast falsehood.”
Source: Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences
“Whenever medical people said ‘discomfort,’ she knew what they really meant. If they meant discomfort, they would have just said ‘pinch’ or ‘pressure.’ Jessica imagined they must have a class in medical school called Understatement 101.”
Source: The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent”
“Whenever men are in power, which of course is always, they can’t stop themselves from subjugating women in an attempt to maintain that power.
-A Twisted Case of Murder: A 1920s Murder Mystery (Mrs. Lillywhite Investigates Book 8)”
“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”
“Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.”
Source: The Little Paris Bookshop
“Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.”
Source: Java Concurrency in Practice
“Whenever morons 'n their yes men ruin harmony, whenever accountability is deemed as misdemeanor, embracing affliction, from the dust 'n dirt of soil 'n street, you the Milkyway Messiah is to rise as the sentient shield.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. It utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. It utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. These are all hypotheses. None of this has been proven.”
“Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.”
“Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"—not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification—we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild.”
Source: Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues