W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.”
“While I live, I would love to live smiling.”
Source: First Time Leadership
“While I live, every criminal must die.”
“While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.”
Source: The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c
“While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.”
“While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.”
“While I love romance, I’ve never believed in the concept of soul mates, which has always seemed a little like men’s rights activism: not a real thing. Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience.
The truth of it was that I’d probably never have the kind of luck with love the women who live in fictional seaside towns do. But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.”
Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow
“While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.”
“While I love to find sin in others, I tend to minimize my own sin. That's because I fail to see the root of my sin. I don't realize that it is really no small thing. It's actually moral insurrection against my King. It's a demonstration that I don't trust, believe, or love God enough to obey him.”
Source: This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years
“While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.”
“While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.”
“While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!”
Source: Villette
“While I'm in the water, I’m laughing and laughing. All my automatic thoughts switch off. I always dip my head under to make sure the cold gets to my brain. And afterwards, I can’t remember what was even worrying me. A switch has been flicked. It’s a physical thing.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“While I'm waiting for him to come back I make some shortbread biscuits which I will serve with figs in whisky and a vanilla zabaglione. I rub some shoulders of lamb with garlic and harissa, and put them in the oven, then blanch some celery and chard before glazing them with brown sugar.”
Source: Chez Moi: A Novel
“While I'm waiting, I reach into the cupboard for dried pineapple. I added them to the grocery order because I find them reassuring, but they have to be the right kind. Ma started buying the fancy natural low-sulfur version from Trader Joe's in the past few years. Those are fibrous and taste good for you. These are the ones from my childhood, which just taste good. They are as yellow as lemons, crusted all around with sugar. The inside is as thick and wet as a gumdrop.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“While I'm writing you I might mention the new novel I'm considering writing; it has to do with the phonograph record business, which I was involved with, at the retail end, for over seven years. I guess I'll make it a S-F novel, though, setting it in the future. My memory tapes (so to speak) have few if any gaps in them about my years in the record business, what with the rip-offs and payola. The small profits for the retailer, the huge chains that are wholesalers-retailers who crowd out the little guy.
Provisionally, I will call the record company DOGSHIT RECORDS INC. (Or DRI, as they have now EMI, RCA, MCA, etc.) In my head I've blocked out the tory of an android who has an agent who is another android, but neither knows the other is an invader. (There is a sort of mutual surprise ending, but the main thing is to lay forth the inner workings of an industry for our readership, in a novel of the sort I tend to write and they tend to read.) The musical artist's agent is named (are you ready?) Skim Morewithit, and so forth. There are rip-offs of royalties, two sets of books, all the usual stuff you find today and yesterday in the record business. As to locale, I haven't decided. Maybe on Jupiter, because it will be a (ahem) heavy novel.”
Source: The Selected Letters, 1974
“While I made a splash, rappers came and passed
But still I ask myself: how long does famous last?”
“While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.”
“While I may be left-handed, I've yet to figure out that my spouse is always right!”
Source: Soldier & Spouse and Their Traveling House
“While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.”
“While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.”
“While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.”
“While I may not have felt the flutter of butterflies in my stomach from a romantic encounter, I am well-versed in the transformative power of love and its ability to create ripples of kindness and compassion.”
“While I may not have possessed the ideal personality, education, background, or qualities, or my traits may not have aligned with your expectations for success, I held an unwavering passion and motivation that proved sufficient to challenge conventional wisdom, personality profiles, and stereotypes.”
“While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.”
Source: A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman
“While I might be scarred, I'm not broken. I'm not ruined. And there's no shame in knowing I made bad choices. Everyone does. There's no such thing as "perfect" in this world, only people who are pretending.”
Source: Like Never and Always
“While I naively stood still in front of her,
She continued, “I am always grateful
For the showers of agonies here and there,
For they taught me wherein lies my inner strength!”
Source: Splinters of a Broken Mirror
“While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.”
“While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.”
“While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.”
“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”
“While I prepared to poison my girlfriend, I sorted through the previous day’s post”
Source: A Splendid Salmagundi
“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.”
“While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.”
“While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.”
“While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.”
“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.”
“While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.”
Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy
“While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.”
“While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.”
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
“While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.”
“While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, you’d do well to remember who you’re addressing and, more to the point, what I can do to you. No one says you have to go back to Tartarus in one piece. (Acheron)”
Source: Dream Chaser
“While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.”
“While I routinely breathed oxygen for five years at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), the medical profession refused to put me oxygen as they said it would damage my lungs by making them lazy.”
“While I searched for Clothilde's ingredients, I found a few bottles of juniper eau-de-vie in the dry storage area, nestled among hundreds of glass jam jars filled with Grand-mère Odette's homemade compotes- fig, cherry, apple, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, pear, and peach.”
Source: The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux
“While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.”
Source: Folk-Lore and Fable
“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”