W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.”
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”
Source: Black Boy
“Whenever my family goes out to eat, it's usually fancier restaurants---an Argentine steak house, a French bistro, one of those classic return-home tacos. Mom likes to eat healthy, and so she's taught Rosalba to make recipes off the internet, dishes with quinoa and kale and coconut oil subbed in for butter. Felix was the biggest proponent of traditional Mexican dishes, taking me to restaurants and markets our parents wouldn't set foot in, begging Rosalba to bust out anything in her repertoire.”
Source: North of Happy
“Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?”
“Whenever my mom talks too much, I say she has Pac-man of the mouth.”
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“Whenever my mother tells me she had a dream seeing my grandmother, or my grandfather, my grandmother’s sister, my father, or my nanny, then recounts in detail what they talked about, I don’t think that she’s out of her mind. I only become slightly more cautious. Sometimes I’m even angry, at them, for appearing in our dreams, and only just checking on us, not saying anything expectedly wise, not telling us the stories from their otherworldly experiences.”
Source: You Will Have a Black Labrador
“Whenever my mother was worried, she would
whisper her prayers in Spanish. I think it gave her a sense of privacy but also a sense of power.”
Source: A Most Important Year
“Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear something like that ?'”
“Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!”
“Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.”
“Whenever negativity makes us drip, Inspiration creates a flip from Negative to Positive.”
“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.”
“Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.”
Source: Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document, but people tend to practice it around the dialogue table. One should not raise, for instance, such questions as gender justice, sexual orientation issues, religious constructions of the other, multiple forms of violence in a religious community, or religious cooperation with neo/imperialism. each religion has its own _history of sin_ that has justified and perpetuated oppression and exclusion of certain groups of people through its own religious teaching, doctrine, and practice. In order to be _nice_ and _tolerant_ to one another, interreligious dialogue has not challenged the fundamental issues of injustice that a particular religion has practiced, justified, and perpetuated in various ways. I do not disregard that most ecumenists have based interreligious dialogue on a politics of tolerance, and this has played a significant role in easing the antagonism between religions, at least among the leaders of established religions. However, we should ground an authentic ecumenism and theology of religion in a _politics of affirmation and transformation, rather than a politics of tolerance_.”
Source: Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
“Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.”
“Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.”
“Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.”
“Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.”
Source: Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.”
“Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.”
“Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what they're dealing with. No, they do not. They've never seen a lonely person, they've simply hated him without knowing him. They've been his neighbours who've used him up, they were the voices in the next room who tempted him. They roused things up against him, getting them to make a din and drown him out. Children ganged up against him when he was a tender child, and at every stage of his growing up he grew hostile to grown-ups . They tracked him to his hiding-place like an animal of chase and throughout his long youth there was no closed season. And when he didn't allow himself to be worn out so that he got away they yelled about what came forth from him and called it ugly and were suspicious of it. And as he didn't stop they grew more obvious and gobbled up his food and breathed up his air and spat into his poverty so that he himself became disgusted at it. They brought him into disrepute as if he were a contagion and threw stones at him to speed his departure. And they were right to follow their age-old instinct: because he really was their enemy. But then when he didn't look up they had second thoughts. They suspected that in all of this they had acted as he had willed them to act; they had strengthened him in his solitude and had helped him separate himself from them for ever.”
“Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .”
Source: Lectures on Philosophy
“Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.”
“Whenever opportunity comes Kohli grabs it with both the hands.”
“Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.”
“Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Whenever our friends get involved with married men we hear about what they say and it's always the same and we always tell our friends that he's never going to leave her, but the minute it happens to us, the minute we meet a married man and he says he loves his wife but he's not in love with her, we believe him.”
Source: Mr. Maybe
“Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for
others, no place for the poor.”
Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”
“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”
“Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.”
“Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.”
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
“Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight”
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”
“Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author.”
“Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.”
“Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.”
“Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.”
“Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn't make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I've always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.”
“Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.”
“Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Whenever people feel genuinely appreciated, they contribute far more than anyone could ever expect.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.”