W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror”
Source: The Undiscovered Self
“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”
“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.”
“Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.”
“Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.”
“Where management fails creativity works!”
Source: Discover the Future
“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.”
“Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead — even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served — deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
“Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
Source: Present Concerns
“Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured for the greatest absurdity.
- Of Miracles”
Source: The Age of Enlightenment: An anthology of eighteenth-century texts: Volume 1
“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
“Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.”
Source: Freedom of the Press
“Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.”
“Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.”
Source: Player Piano
“Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.”
“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc
“Where men see flaws, grace sees perfection.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women.”
Source: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
“Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.”
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“Where mermaids live looks a bit like your pool.' said Bernard. 'Except they build houses out of whale bones and the wreckage of sunken ships. They play chess with seahorses. They wear capes of fish scales and sleep on beds made from seaweed.'
As we listened, I thought I heard a slight splashing from the far end of the pool.
'At night,' Bernard continued, 'they turn on an electric eel for a night-light, and they light a fire, and the smoke goes up a chimney made from coral.'
'Wait a minute,' interupted Zoe, clearly immersed in Bernard's description. 'If they live underwater, how could they have a fire?'
'You should ask them,' said Bernard.
Zoe and I open our eyes.
Now, look, I know the light was just playing tricks on us. And I know we'd all probably inhaled too much sequin glue. But for the briefest moment, the blue of Zoe's pool gave way to deeper, darker aqua-colored water. The few plants and rocks were replaced with a lagoon and a waterfall where several mermaids lounged half in the water, half in the sun. They splashed and dove, their laughter making the same sound as the water.”
Source: Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
“Where metals meet, connections endure. With bimetal connectors, we bridge the gap between reliability and resilience, forging a pathway for seamless conductivity in electrical systems.”
“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”
“Where might is, the right is:
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just has a command of the instrument, but can actually say something to make you feel something, make you think about something.”
“Where military service begins, logic ends.”
“Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.”
“Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.”
“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.”
Source: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”
Source: The Liberal Imagination
“Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”
Source: Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis
“Where monsters lurked, love also waited.
Bigger than any monster could be.”
Source: Aftershock
“Where morals are aesthetic, conviction is cosmetic.”
“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
“Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.”
“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.”
“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.”
“Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song”
“Where motivation was concerned, there was hardly any difference between a caveman and a civilised human.
The desire to live, and live as well as the next man, was common to all.
The point at which virtually all of mankind began to develop a sense of discontent was when it discovered the hiatus between desire and capability.”
“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Where music leads, I follow.”
“Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.”
Source: The Lion and the Rose: Poems
“Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style.”
“Where my guides lead me in kindness
I follow, follow lightly,
and there are no footprints
in the dust behind us.”
Source: The Telling
“where
my heart is,
is where my mind
wanders,
and where my
body goes
everything,
all of me, always,
and only, and again…
it all finds its way
to you
you’re an instinct.
– loveflow”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.”