W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”
“Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.”
“Whenever you remember someone just talk with them . If its not possible then keep busy yourself with something that will help you to be with yourself.”
“Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”
“Whenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself.”
“Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.”
Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
“Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.”
“Whenever you say, “There aren’t any quality people online,” you should keep in mind; other people are saying the exact same thing, despite the fact you have an online profile!”
Source: Online Dating Avoid The Catfish!: How To Date Online Successfully
“Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”
Source: A woman's essays: selected essays, volume one
“Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.”
“Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.”
“Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.”
“Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“Whenever you see an oasis, remember the earth's position in space because earth is our oasis in space!”
“Whenever you see another child, maybe say the word ‘Daisy’ in your mind. Think of those as moments of your daughter sending you her love, instead of making it out to be a moment of loss. She can live in every single moment, and if you allow it, that can be a beautiful blessing.”
Source: Southern Storms
“Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.”
“Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer—there it is.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Whenever you see Herod and Pilate befriending each other for Jesus' destruction, notice, then, the converging of the demon of fornication and vainglory for the same purpose, to kill the logos of virtue and of knowledge, conspiring with each other. For the vainglorious demon dissimulating spiritual knowledge sends it along to the demon of fornication. Thus, "Having clothed him with bright raiments," it says, "Herod sent Jesus back to Pilate.”
Source: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology
“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.”
Source: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
“Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.”
“Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.”
“Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.”
“Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.”
“Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.”
“Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.”
“Whenever you see someone reading a Japanese newspaper. You just see some lady just reading a Japanese newspaper. You need to put a crown on her head, you need to... to lick her feet, you need to make her some soup. She is doing something that is a human miracle.”
Source: Language Families of the World
“Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.”
“Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.”
“Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.”
“Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.”
“Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.”
“Whenever you serve someone from your heart, the food tastes so much better”
“Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.”
Source: Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden
“Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.”
Source: A Simple Path-Open Market
“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.
Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.”
“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”
“Whenever you should question your self-worth, always remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.”
“Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. It's kind of like going to a new high school. You want to see who everyone is before you introduce yourself, really, to kind of make friends. I think any smart person does that in social situations”
“Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there.”
“Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.”
“Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.”
“Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.”
“Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing.”
“Whenever you suffer misfortune or illness, think "This repays my karmic debts from former lifetimes and purifies my negative karma!" No matter what happiness you have, regard it as the kindness of the Three Jewels and arouse the strong yearning of devoted gratitude! When you meet with enmity and hatred, think "This is a good friend helping me to cultivate patience!" Think, "This helper for patience is a messenger sent by the victorious ones!" (p. 105)”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.”
“Whenever you take a stand for truth and justice, you are liable to scorn. Often you will be called an impractical idealist or a dangerous radical. Sometimes it might mean going to jail. If such is the case you must honorably grace the jail with your presence. It might even mean physical death. But if physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children from a permanent life of psychological death, then nothing could be more Christian.”