W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.”
“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“wherever there's laughter, there is heaven”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.”
“Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.”
“Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.”
“Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!”
“Wherever these boys are finding their denim, I want a lifetime membership to their mailing catalog.”
Source: You'd Be Mine
“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”
Source: The House at Pooh Corner
“Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.”
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
Source: Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life were the same: "We have only one life!" So take everything life can give, except one thing: the birth of a child. For a child is an idol who sucks dry the juices of your being without any return for your sacrifices, not even ordinary gratitude.”
Source: The First Circle
“Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.”
“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.”
“Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of union with Christ, in imitation of His tempers and inclinations, and look upon all as nothing, but that which exercises, and increases the spirit and life of Christ in thy soul.”
Source: The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7
“Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.”
“Wherever water flows, life flourishes:
wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.”
“Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay
“Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.”
“Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, we're either conscious, or we're not.”
“Wherever we are, as long as we're together, we're home.”
Source: Ofiad
“Wherever we are on our path in life, we will never be enough if material goals alone are what drive us. Someone else will always have more and we could always have more.”
Source: 10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
“Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.”
Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.”
“Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“Wherever we are, we are as one”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.”
“Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand”
“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”
“Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.”
Source: Dissertations and miscellaneous pieces relating to the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia
“Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.”
Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians
“Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship.”
“Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we
find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to
risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the
globe.”
“Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.”
“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.”
“Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.”
Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
“Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all”
“Wherever we go, life and death, rose and thorn, light and darkness will be there waiting all together for us!”
“Wherever we go, we are our own companion. And that is why we must try to be a good friend to ourselves and treat ourselves with gentleness. After all, we are the one we spend the most time with.”
Source: The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery
“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)”
“Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else”
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.”
“Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations
“Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.”
“WHEREVER WE HAD BEEN in Russia, in Moscow, in the Ukraine, in Stalingrad, the magical name of Georgia came up constantly. People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea as a kind of second heaven. Indeed, we began to believe that most Russians hope that if they live very good and virtuous lives, they will go not to heaven, but to Georgia, when they die. It is a country favored in climate, very rich in soil, and it has its own little ocean. Great service to the state is rewarded by a trip to Georgia. It is a place of recuperation for people who have been long ill. And even during the war it was a favored place, for the Germans never got there, neither with planes nor with troops. It is one of the places that was not hurt at all.”
Source: A Russian Journal
“Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.”
“Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents.”
“Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.”
Source: Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow