W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever somebody challenges me with the notion that killing carrots is no different to killing cows, I make a point of pointing out how different they would feel if they spent the day weeding in the garden, or the day slaughtering chickens. Just to make it clear how ridiculous they are being, because there can be no doubt, their argument is ridiculous, there isn’t a person out there who given both scenarios would look at them and say “yes they are the same”. I like to state this clearly, because I understand that even if the person challenging me refuses to acknowledge the difference, others who come along later and read the conversation will see both sides to the argument and maybe it will help these new people to not start presenting the same kind of ridiculous logic in opposition towards compassionate living.”
“Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."”
“Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.”
“Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.”
“Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.”
“Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.”
“Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.”
“Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.”
Source: The Broken Hearts Club
“Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?”
“Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very deliberate and I had a plan in mind and I executed that plan exactly to the letter. But this isn't the case.”
“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.”
“Whenever someone asks you why you care for a particular person, they've failed to understand that love is charity.”
“Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?”
“Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.”
“Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.”
“Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.”
“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel
“Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.”
“Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…
If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?”
“Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.”
Source: The View from Saturday
“Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it’s all right here.” I placed a palm against my chest. “Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they’re still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree.”
Source: Life Unaware
“Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.”
“Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.”
“Whenever someone says they believe the earth was created in 7 days, I grab a fossil and say, Fossil. And if they keep talking, I throw it just over their heads.”
“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”
“Whenever someone starts a statement with, Let me tell you the kind of guy I am, that is a great time to start sawing your own head off.”
“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”
“Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.”
Source: Book of Disquietude
“Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.”
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
“Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.”
“Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. I like Asimov's view that great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why. Curiosity is the starting point for great science.”
“Whenever something bad happens, do not forget to smile. Even if you have to deal with this really arrogant, ruthless tycoon. You never know, sometimes a very rude and arrogant person can be melted with a heartfelt smile.”
Source: A Bucket Full Of Awesome
“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
“Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.”
“Whenever something good happens to me, I try-it may sound kind of bad-to think a little negative. I just always try to keep myself grounded.”
“Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.”
“Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.”
“Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.”
Source: Lock and Key
“Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.”
“Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.”
“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.”
Source: Illness Defined; The Theorem
“Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.”
“Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths.”
Source: Under Shifting Stars
“Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.”
“Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.”
“Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.”