W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.”
“Wherever and whenever society deems life is worthless, we must see through the eyes of Eros. In the fulness of time, it is up to Eros to restore the balance between life and death that has been tipped in death's favour.”
“Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.”
Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.”
Source: The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward
“Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.”
“Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.”
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
“Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date—as in the Netherlands and later in England—and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free—“free to the nethermost recesses of hell.”
“Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when we die for the people, it is an honorable death. Nevertheless we should do our best to avoid unnecessary casualties.
Mao Zedong, 1944”
Source: The Man from Beijing
“Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.”
“Wherever change takes me, I want to meet God there and worship Him with my thoughts and actions and words and deeds.”
Source: Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character
“Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.”
“Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.”
Source: Table-talk
“Wherever construction is underway, any sort of trespassing to the construction site is super impeded.”
“Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?”
“Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some kind of freak, when I'm not the freak; Rich is the freak. Clearly. When I grow up, that had better be understood and I had better be compensated, or I'm going to shoot myself in the head.”
Source: Be More Chill
“Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.”
Source: The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin
“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.”
“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.”
“Wherever did they find you?"
"At the junction of hard luck and bad times," I answer. It's something that my momma says.”
Source: Dread Nation Sneak Peek
“Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.”
“Wherever fate lands you, you look for something interesting and enjoy it as best as you can. Maybe that's what makes life interesting.”
Source: Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
“Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.”
“Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.”
“Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.”
Source: Ecce Homo
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer
the Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
the latter has the largest congregation.”
“Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying”
“Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.”
“Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it is forgetfulness of Him that is detrimental. The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.”
“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”
Source: Running the Rift
“Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.”
“Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”
“Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.”
Source: The queen of the sciences
“Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.”
“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.”
Source: Roughing It
“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.”
Source: The Torture Garden
“Wherever he is, he always creates space for people to reason. His actions are not led by emotions, they are led by a grand vision.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
Source: A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“Wherever he treads, blessings are countless. His footsteps make a significant difference—a trail of abundance, not for himself but for others as well.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.”
Source: The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
“Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.”
“Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.”
“Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.”
Source: The Professor's House
“Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."
[Harry Potter Beyond the Page: A Virtual Author Visit with J.K. Rowling (Scholastic / Stacks webcast, October 11, 2012)]”
“Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.”
“Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.”
“Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.”
“Wherever, I am welcome, there is my home.”
“Wherever I am, whatever else I'm doing, you're in my thoughts. Always. Whatever seeds you plant will have my eye on them. Whatever plants you make I'll cheer for you. Whatever kind of person you become, no matter how different from my daydreams, I will treasure you. No matter how lonely you ever have felt, I've been there, and no matter how dark things get as you grow older, I'll be there as well. You are my favourite person in the world and the thing I am proudest of.
Love you forever,
Mom”
Source: Birthday