W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wherarewe?” Thorne muttered.
“Oh, you’re awake already,” said Cinder, returning with salve and gauze. “I was hoping you’d stay knocked out awhile longer. The peace and quiet was a pleasant change.”
Source: Scarlet
“Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.”
“Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.”
“Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent”
“Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
“Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.”
Source: In Defense of Elitism
“Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.”
“Where a human values a human, there flourishes civilization.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.”
Source: Lectures on Various Subjects
“Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”
“Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.”
Source: Emma
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.”
“Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.”
Source: Correspondence
“Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.”
Source: Out of Africa
“Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.”
Source: Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931
“Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.”
Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses
“Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“Where a wise woman is not valued, wisdom is lost.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Where a woman's faith in herself ends; so too does her joy.”
“Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.”
“where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom*
*Made it up
and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.”
“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices”
Source: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Where all desires, emotions, energy, time, cause, effect and argument fall, Pure Love evolves.”
“Where all desires, emotions, energy, time, cause, effect and arguments fall, Pure Love evolves.”
“Where all her other friends had disappeared to was a mystery she had no interest in solving.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary
“Where all life dies death lives.”
“Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.”
“Where All Roads Lead by Stewart Stafford
As I journeyed toward Rome,
On the dusty road, I passed,
Beggars, lepers, soothsayers,
And dogs foaming at the mouth.
Through the fresh mountain pass,
Then the long descending road,
Temperature rising with each step,
Anticipation grew with the heat.
Class of companion changed,
Upon nearing the city of cities,
I heard talk of gladiators, and,
Barges of Venuses on the Tiber.
Thunder and before my eyes,
Stood a vision of distant Rome,
The curve of the Colosseum,
Teeming humanity to and fro.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Where all that colour and light and texture had once dwelled, there was only a filthy prison cell.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.”
“Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.”
Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.”
Source: Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path
“Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.”
Source: The Ballad of HMS Belfast
“Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?”
Source: You Bring the Distant Near
“Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket? ~Bumper sticker~”
“Where am I going, sir?” Fear shot through his stomach. He had nowhere else to go.”
Source: THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
“Where am I going? This is a question of purpose and destiny”
“Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth”
“Where am I?"
He did not answer immediately.
Since entering the room, he had kept his focus locked on her face. But Lily watched as the direction of his gaze slid down her body. His perusal was slow and comprehensive, sliding over her breasts and continuing past the curve of her hips and down her bare legs beyond the short hem of her shift.
Though he revealed nothing in his stony expression, there was something in the gleam of his blue-black eyes that brought a delicate quiver to Lily's belly.
She glanced at his hands where they fell at his sides. He held them tensely extended, his long fingers spreading wide, before he clenched them into tight fists as he finished his slow review of her body. By the time the path of his perusal made its way back to her face, Lily was breathless and hot with a different kind of fear and... something else.
"You are in my bedroom."
The intimate depth of his voice struck Lily with an acute force. Her head spun, and her legs collapsed. As she tensed for a collision with the floor, she was swept up in strong arms.
The fire raging beneath her skin flared with bright intensity as Lord Harte scooped his arms beneath her legs and around her back to lift her high against his chest. It took only a few short moments for him to set her back on the bed.
He released her abruptly to flip the bedcovers over her, then turned and strode away.
Lily was left with the striking impressions of his body's warmth, the strength of his arms around her, the woodsy scent of his skin, the brush of his embroidered waistcoat felt through the muslin of her shift, and then the sight of his broad back as he walked away, putting the entire distance of the room between them.”
Source: The Untouchable Earl
“Where am I?” I ask. “Where are my parents and my brother? Where’s my home? And who are you?”
He blinks a couple of times before smiling faintly as though something has just amused him. “I’m afraid you’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.”
Wizard of Oz references? I’m somewhere, I don’t know where, and that’s the best I get? Well, I’m not some dumb little girl willing to put up with that, and he certainly isn’t any kind of wizard. - Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: FADE OMNIBUS (Books 1 through 4)
“Where am I?" I asked.
"You're in Illinois," the old man said.
"So, I'm in a free state?"
The men laughed. "Boy, you're in America," a muscular man said.”
Source: James
“Where am I? Into what world did I sink, into what world did I re-emerge? To what life am I restored? And to what purpose?”
Source: The Days of Abandonment