W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.”
“Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.”
“where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.”
Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
“Where the desert meets decadence — A YACHT Party, Dubai.”
“Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.”
“Where the determination is, the way can be found.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide
“Where the deviation occurred is where the truth was left.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“Where the Devil Loses His Lawn Ornament
From marble to mudbrick, after stirrups & shock, Jenkins/Aëtius and his ragtag knights — with blue blades & purple quills — haul back to Rome and seed Europe with Lady Concordia’s grandeur, the Invincible Blaze.”
Source: From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot
“Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission.”
“Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.”
Source: The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum
“Where the earth is, we are.”
“Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.”
“Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.”
“Where the entire world sleeps, there the Gnanis remain awake, and where the Gnanis sleep, there the world remains awake.”
“Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.”
Source: The Passing of the Great Race
“Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment”
Source: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“Where the eye divides, the ear connects.”
Source: Winter Music: Composing the North
“Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.”
“Where the facts themselves are highly interesting, the explanation of them must be still more so.”
Source: Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living
“Where the frick are you?! I’ve been frickin’ driving all frickin’ around this stupid frickin’ city all frickin’ day trying to find the frickin’ hotel because apparently frickin’ Emily doesn’t know where the frick it is either.”
Source: Wolves Among Sheep
“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.”
“Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”
“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
Source: A Classic Crime Collection
“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.”
“Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.”
“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Where the greater malady is fixed,
The lesser is scarce felt.”
“Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.”
“Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.”
Source: The history of Henry Milner
“Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.”
“Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”
Source: The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.”
“Where the heart goes brain follows.”
“Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.”
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”
Source: Northanger Abbey - Second Edition
“Where the heart is the mind works best.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”
“Where the heck was I while you were playing Grand Theft Cellar?”
Source: Demonglass
“Where the hell are the singing cats?”
“Where the hell are you? I scanned around me, and found nothing but shadow and merry flame and books.
Two levels below.
And why are you two levels below? I shoved out of my chair, back aching in protest as I stormed for the walkway and rail beyond, then peered down into the gloom.
Sure enough, in a reading area two levels below, I could spy his dark hair and wings- could spy him leaning back in his chair before an identical desk, an ankle crossed over a knee. Smirking up at me. Because I can't work with you distracting me.
I scowled at him. I'm distracting you?
If you're sitting next to me, the last thing on my mind is reading dusty old books. Especially when you're in all that tight leather.
Pig.
His chuckle echoed up through the library amid the fluttering papers and scratching pens of the priestesses working throughout.
...
Two hours of work, he promised me, turning back to the table and flaring his wings- a veritable screen to block my view of him. And his view of me. Then we can play.
I gave him a vulgar gesture.
I saw that.
I did it again, and his laugh floated to me as I faced the books stacked before me and began to read.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Where the hell did demons live, anyway?”
Source: Eric
“Where the hell do you put the bayonet?”
“Where the hell is Australia anyway?”
“Where the hell is Chad?”
“Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts.
Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired."
"Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win.”
Source: Take Me On
“Where the human is whole, there is peace, where divided, there is war.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begin to manifest in abundance.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance.”
“Where the human need for order meets
the human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.”