W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.”
Source: Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading
“Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.”
“Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”
“Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.”
“Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.”
“Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.”
“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“Where we go in life ultimately depends on how we take control of our desires.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“Where we go wrong is that we bring along some ready-made idea of God, wherever we may have learned it, and then try to make Jesus Christ fit in with that idea of God. But if we take the idea of a revelation of God in Christ seriously, then we must be willing to have our understanding of God corrected and even revolutionized by what we learn in Jesus Christ.”
“Where we goin’?” Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don’t think it would help to share this notion with Wade”
Source: Take Me There
“Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.”
“Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.”
“Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.”
“Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.”
“Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.”
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”
Source: Red Suitcase: Poems
“Where we love is home”
Source: Bring Me Home
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
“Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.”
Source: Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty
“Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.”
“Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul.”
“Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.”
“Where we stand depends on where we sit." Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.”
“Where we start to lose it is when we start to grasp onto what we think is ours. No, this is mine. No, that's my career. That's my money. That's my platform. But really, no, it's yours, God. It's not mine. You might lend it to me for a little while. You might let me hold onto it. You might let me use it for a little bit, but that's not mine; it's yours. Thank you for letting me use that for a little while. I think that's what staying grounded means.”
“Where we suffer, passion brings purpose. Where life lacks meaning, passion opens our senses within the lack, allowing a finer sensing of it all.”
Source: Nondual Passion: A Quality of Consciousness in Nondual Therapy
“Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.”
“Where we walked around, you took photos of your favorite things in Daydream. Like a little reminder that it’s not all bad,” Mason said, and Drew fell silent for a moment, turning the camera in his hands.
“They’re all photos of you,” Drew admitted, and his voice quivered around the words.”
Source: Blindspot
“Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.”
“Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.”
“Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have.”
“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”
“Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?”
“Where wealth accumulates, men decay.”
“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature
“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”
“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.”
Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me
“Where were Christians before Freud? Up a tree? Were the bereft of all crucial knowledge about man's relationship to God and his neighbor? Was the church's counseling a hopeless, primitive, stone-age activity that should have disappeared with flint knives? Were Christians shut up to sinful, harmful living before the advent of psychotherapy? Did God withhold truth for living until our present age?”
Source: Theology of Christian Counseling, A
“Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.”
“Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could
not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me
were a blur of fear and shock. I heard meself crying and moaning, My oh my, my
oh my . . . I still have nightmares ’bout that time. I still feel like a sharp piece of
ice has stabbed me heart real deep. I was filled, filled to the brim with utter baffle
and utter loneliness. p. 15”
Source: Into That Forest
“Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza”
“Where were the convoys of motors rushing at a blind speed in the evening, when the so-called begging children, by stretching their palms more tender than flowers, were selling the future of this world for the price of their childhood?”
“Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?”
“Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?”
Source: On Pilgrimage
“Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?”
Source: Heartless
“Where were the stars now, whose progress his mother had followed so religiously? Where was the God that she sometimes turned to in her weakest moments? He remembered gazing at the sky in wonder as a child. That was where they told him the dead went. They became stars in the night sky, an insurmountable distance away.”
Source: The Girl from Rostov
“Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?”
Source: Play with Fire
“Where were they when the Russians went down?”
“Where were we? I've forgotten.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Right. Yes. The usual choices.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.”
Source: Stargirl