W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
“Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.”
“Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.”
“Whenever we see anyone in a high or low position, male or female, they differ only in appearance, dress, behavior, and status. In essence they are all equal--they all experience problems in their lives.”
“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged and prose-like being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Whenever we show compassion, there is Christmas.”
“Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sacred and ministerial. To be called into the priesthood, as all of us are, is to be called to a life of presence, of kindness.”
Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.”
Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness
“Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies”
“Whenever we take a stand, we invite others who are siting on the sidelines to join us.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.”
Source: One World
“Whenever we talk about a pilot who has been killed in a flying accident, we should all keep one thing in mind. He called upon the sum of all his knowledge and made a judgment. He believed in it so strongly that he knowingly bet his life on it. That his judgment was faulty is a tragedy, not stupidity. Every instructor, supervisor, and contemporary who ever spoke to him had an opportunity to influence his judgment, so a little bit of all of us goes with every pilot we lose.”
“Whenever we talk about darkness and light, the terms seem so abstract that many consider the answers to be found in meditation and yoga, but I’m here to tell you that the answers are in the books you will never read, waiting all your life in the libraries you ignored and the bookstores you didn’t visit. I’m here to tell you as well that you are your own Satan and evil can’t possibly interfere more in your life than what you’re already doing to yourself by remaining ignorant. Until you choose the light, darkness is your personal choice, and there’s no reason to feel any empathy for you.”
“Whenever we talk about social and academic language today, that’s really the legacy that we’ve inherited – a legacy of semilingualism, of suggesting that there’s something illegitimate about the language practices of racialized bilingual students.
(4/10/2020 on Vocal Fries podcast)”
“Whenever we talk, I wonder why I even talk to you. It feels like I am forcing myself to talk to you.”
“whenever we think of anything that
is a trial to us we should also think of something
nice that we can set over against it.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.”
“Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.”
Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.”
“Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.”
“Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!”
“Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.”
“Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”
Source: Killosophy
“Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.”
“Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”
“Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.”
“Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01
“Whenever wealthy individuals engage in philanthropic and charitable activities, it simply means that they are filling the void left by reduced government spending on social programs.”
“Whenever, wherever, fanaticism weaponizes fear, human hearts gotta rise, abandoning tranquility. Whenever chowderheads infringe on love and reason, time be my testament - My World, My Responsibility!”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.”
Source: God's Smuggler
“Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.”
“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.”
“Whenever 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.”
“Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.”
“Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.”
“Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.”
“Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.”
“Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.”
“Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.”
Source: The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram & Calming Your Mind
“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”
“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.”
Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Whenever you are being harassed, once you have made contact with a law enforcement officer you will need to stay with them until the harassers leave the area.”
“Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see change.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.”