W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wherever I've walked, I've walked willingly, and I've cherished every one of those walks.”
“Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.”
“Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I've lost...”
“Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers”
“Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.”
“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.”
Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.”
Source: The Vedanta Philosophy: Art of living
“Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!”
“Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.”
Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.”
“Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.”
“Wherever is a place not yet established on planet Earth. Do not plan to take your ‘what’ there!”
Source: Know What Matters
“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”
“Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.”
Source: Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
“Wherever is your heart I call home.”
“Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.”
“Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.”
“Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.”
“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”
“Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.”
“Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.”
“Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.”
“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”
“Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.”
Source: Juan de Mairena
“Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people”
“Wherever life is, its main objective is to keep going, and it always wins. And nature? It's all built into nature. Survivability, life perpetuating. And that means there have to be babies. Baby everything! Baby birds, baby human beings, baby ants. You name it. There have to be babies, and what has to happen for there to be babies? Okay, birds and bees. What has to happen for that to happen? It's all intertwined, and it's all nature, and the left has come along and tried to monkey with it by politicizing as much of it as they can for whatever just really convoluted reasons.”
“Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.”
Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections
“Wherever life took her she knew that most people recognize her smile but fell in love with her beautiful heart.”
“Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.”
Source: Love & Its Meaning in the World
“Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.”
Source: Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel
“Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”
Source: The Passion
“Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”
“Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether the result be a house, a ship, a garment, a piece of glass, or a metallic implement, these memorials of economy and invention will always be worthy of the attention of the Archaeologist.”
Source: Essays on Art and Archaeology
“Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.”
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.”
Source: Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew
“Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.”
Source: The story of civilization
“Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.”
Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh
“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.”
“Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high ground, open space and paths.”
Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.”
“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”