W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where does our laughter travel to?
Does it search out monkeys in the zoo?
Or settle on the heart like dew?
Or cling to lip-glossed smiles on me and you?
Does it hang around throughout the day?
Or spread its wings and fly away?
Or gather-in like puffy clouds of gray?
Perhaps it hooks a rainbow’s end
And melts to make the colors blend.
Or paints a happy face upon a friend.
Does it turn to stardust when it’s late?
Or in a windstorm, circulate?
Or does it simply fade and dissipate?
What is our laughter’s merrymaking fate?”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?”
Source: My Heart
“Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.”
“Where does peace come from? Peace is born out of air. Where does the air come from? It comes from human lungs.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?”
“Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.”
“Where does self-determination originate?”
“Where does she get all the energy? Where does he get all the energy? Nobody GET's energy. Everybody releases energy.”
“Where does someone’s energy go when their body is cracked open? Does it end up in the corners of all the bedrooms they visited, nestled in the hearts of everyone they knew? Do they have their own secret portals through which they come in and out of the world, where we can sometimes feel them? And if they’re an artist, does their influence go even deeper, into places inside people that they didn’t even know they had?”
“Where does Terry live? Somewhere deep inside. So I just let that come out and try to make something out of it without worrying about techniques or rules or any of that stuff. Just do it, you know. As long as it doesn't burn or get deleted, you know, then somebody will find it someday and I will have left something that I think is beautiful.”
“Where does that put you?"
Montag bit his lip.
"I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.”
“Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?”
“Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.”
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other.”
Source: The Shout: Selected Poems
“Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.”
Source: Daisy Darker
“Where does the pain go when we die?
does it stay in the bed as it begins to stink—
does it racket through the home like a scream—
do the children inherit it like a sprawling estate—
And where does it go while we live?
Maybe the pain is like me, desperate to be seen in the lives of those around me. I will abandon others again and again until I can finally be free of my own abandonment.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“Where does the problem arise in adjusting? ‘She is the one I married, she is my wife’. Hey! but she is not a ‘wife’. When he is not a ‘husband’, how can there be a wife then?”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“Where does the story begin, and reality end? Or is it the other way around?. That is the scary part.
The Seeds of Evil is a story that needs to be told. While this is a fictional story, the lines between what is a story and what is happening in our world today are so blurred, it will leave you questioning our food supply, our media, our society, our government, and our safety. A story that you will not be able to put down. Characters larger than life and a story that travels as fast as the imagination allows. Wow”
“Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Where does this arrogant fantasy come from?”
Source: Let It Snow
“Where does this leave women? In the mentioned philosophers' text, three categories emerge: the perpetrator of violence (man), the one requiring protection (trans woman), and the one who does not perpetrate violence but does not require protection either (woman). The trans man is not mentioned at all. What, then, does the opening up of the category 'woman' mean for women's status? It means that a woman remains a woman no matter what she is called: her being and room for manoeuvre is not expanded. In the trans economy she will be ignored and trampled upon whatever gender she identifies with.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.”
“Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?”
Source: The Dispossessed
“Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.”
Source: Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)
“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.”
Source: Ben Jonson
“Where doubt is, there faith has no power.”
Source: Lectures on Faith
“Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”
“Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.”
Source: Sex & Ego Death
“Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn't exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities inside and outside of oneself.”
“Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan
“Where else but a coffee-house could you pay a couple dollars for a drink, then fritter away four hours splayed across a couch, reading a book?”
Source: Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
“Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?”
“Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?”
“Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?”
“Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?”
“Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.”
“Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.”
“Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.”
Source: Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist
“Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.”
“Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?”
Source: All the Places to Love
“Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.”
Source: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
“Where else would I be? I want to be wherever you are, Ana. Being here makes me think of how far we've come. And the night that was. I watched you fro hours. You were just... yar," he breathes. I smile against his chest.”
“Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?”
Source: Middlesex
“Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?”
Source: Between The Lies