W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.”
“Where cheating is, there's mischief there.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Where children are, there is the golden age.”
Source: Hymns to the night: and other selected writings
“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”
Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.”
“Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.”
Source: Last Poems
“Where Christ is, he rules; for he takes the keys of the house and governs all. Where he is in the heart and affections - there he rules; and where he takes not his lodging in the affections and in the heart, in the joy, desire, and delight, he is not at all. To have him in the brain to talk, and in the tongue to discourse, and yet to keep the heart filled with worldly lusts, shows that Christ does not reside there. By the heart, I mean, especially, the will and the affections. He draws the will to cleave to him, to choose him for the best good.”
Source: The Matchless Love and Indwelling
“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet
“Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
“Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.”
“Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?”
Source: From Hell
“Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.”
“Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.”
“Where conflicts arise between workers and bosses, between the rights of one class and the interests of the other, the machinery of the law is typically used as a weapon against the workers. Even where the law is contrary to the demands of powerful corporations, the police often act not from principle or legal obligation, but according to the needs of the ruling class. This tendency shouldn’t surprise us, if we remember the lengths to which the cops have gone in the defense of White supremacy, even as laws and policies have changed. With class, as with race, it is the status quo that the police act to preserve and the interests of the powerful that they seek to defend, not the rule of law or public safety. The law, in fact, has been a rather weak guide for those who are meant to enforce it.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.”
“Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.”
“Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.”
“Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“Where copper's conductivity meets aluminum's adaptability, Bi-Metallic Lugs emerge as the symphony of connection, conducting power with resilience and versatility. Pioneer Power - forging excellence in every connection.”
“Where could I call home? Only in my heart.”
“Where could I go but to the Lord?”
“Where could we obtain mercy except in the throne of grace!”
“Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.”
“Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.”
“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”
“Where’d you find her?
He picked me out of a catalog.”
Source: Every Part of You: Tempts Me
“where'd you get that pistol?
At the gettin place”
“Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workin or a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?' And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Where dance is, there is the devil.”
“Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.”
Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume
“Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.”
Source: Chance Escape
“Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.”
Source: Collected Works
“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.”
“Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.”
“Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.”
“Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.”
“Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.”
“Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know.”
“Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!”
“Where did all these damn Indians come from?”
“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
“Where did Gabriel get a lily,
In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch?”
“Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.”
“Where did he come from? You'll love this. The word python was from the Greek pytho, which means rotting. The monster Python was born out of the festering, rotten slime left over from the great flood when Zeus drowned the world. Tasty!”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“Where did he go!” he bellowed, gloved hands clenching. “I had him in a snare that would take Alexander the Great a lifetime to untwist, and he did it in a week!” Al took a step, pinwheeling as his booted heel found an ice cube.”
“Where did he take you?"
"An island." I thought of the archipelago, those dots and dashes of land, a code you could never unlock.
"What did it smell like?" she asked.
I'd expected a lot of questions, but not this one. As soon as she said it, though, I knew it was the only one that mattered. The only one that would tell you what a place, or your past, was actually like.
"Cedar and spruce and fir," I said. "Applewood smoke. Salt water. That metallic smell right before a storm." I was picking up speed. "Salmonberries, huckleberries, spruce on your fingertips. Wet dirt- oh, and morels." I stopped, embarrassed by my volubility.
"You did get my genes," she murmured.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”