W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“wild freedom and deep trust aren't strangers to each other at all… if anything, they help each other grow.”
“Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Wild fury and righteous anger stirs up in the hearts of men. Driving them to action, to battle, to fight. Hopefully, it’s tempered with the code, with the order. Fury must be kept in check, and be used to propel justice, to free the oppressed, to protect.”
“Wild Geese | Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
“Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.”
“Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.”
“Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.”
“Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.”
Source: Poem without a hero and selected poems
“Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!”
“Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.”
Source: Crome Yellow
“Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.”
“Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.”
“Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series
“Wild life surprises you when you least expect it”
“Wild. Like a panther," he said chuckling. "Taming of a panther is an exquisite pleasure.”
Source: Kiran: The Warrior's Daughter
“Wild living leads wrong doing.”
“Wild men are so enormously attractive.”
“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.”
Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952
“Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.”
Source: The Truth about the Peace Treaties
“Wild Mint
Betwixt the rocks in the loam,
Is where this mint calls its home.
Imbued with the blood of springs,
Consume it for what it brings.
Aromatic icy leaves,
Aches in middle it relieves.”
“Wild nature always gives a very simple message to humanity: Do not disturb me!”
“Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was, but fuck, she was completely wrecking his ability to be easy with her. She was using her power and strength in a way that riled his beast.”
Source: Searing Ecstasy
“Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was, but fuck, she was completely wrecking his ability to be easy with her. She was using her power and strength in a way that riled his beast.
Mine, she growled into the link as her thighs tightened around his hips.”
Source: Searing Ecstasy
“Wild nights are my glory!”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile—the winds—
To a heart in port—
Done with the compass—
Done with the chart!
Rowing in Eden—
Ah, the sea!
Might I but moor— Tonight—
In thee!”
Source: Selected poems
“Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!”
Source: Dickinson
“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”
Source: The Quest of the Golden Girl
“wild poetry on our lips when we kiss”
“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”
“wild rose roots dream the bees
what does the baby see”
Source: busted haiku
“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase
“Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
“wild spirit, soft heart, sweet soul”
“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.”
“Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.”
“Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.”
“Wild Times
Since Mexico accepted communism as a legitimate political party during the 1920’s and allowed refugees greater flexibility of thought, it became a haven from persecution. Moreover, living in Mexico was less costly than most countries, the weather was usually sunny and no one objected to the swinging lifestyle that many of the expats engaged in. It was for these reasons that Julio Mella from Cuba, Leon Trotsky from Russia and others sought refuge there. It also attracted many actors, authors and artists from the United States, many of whom were Communist or, at the very least were “Fellow Travelers” and had leftist leanings. Although the stated basic reason for the Communist Party’s existence was to improve conditions for the working class, it became a hub for the avant-garde, who felt liberated socially as well as politically. The bohemian enclave of Coyoacán now a part of Mexico City, where Frida Kahlo was born, was located just east of San Angel which at the time was a district of the ever expanding City. It also became the gathering place for personalities such as the American actor Orson Welles, the beautiful actress Dolores del Río, the famous artist Diego Rivera and his soon-to-be-wife, “Frida,” who became and is still revered as the illustrious matriarch of Mexico.”
“Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.”
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that’s what makes the calm sea alive”
“Wild winds never last all morning
and fierce rains never last all day.
Who conjures such things if not heaven and earth,
and if heaven and earth can't make things last,
why should we humans try?
Verse 23
(Hinton translation)”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.”
Source: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
“Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet.
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.”
“Wild woman keep your heart free,
Tend to your mind and give your soul time to be.
Life is a long time, yet a short time in fact -
But if your focus isn't sharp, nothing will flow in tact.”
“Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Wild women don't get the blues.”
“Wild women seek freedom and ooze authenticity.
No one can control them once they’ve felt free. No one can make them feel unstable or disobedient once they feel true to themselves.
They’re no longer tamed living in a false reality. The wild ones choose to live truthfully and unquestionably.”
“Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...”
“WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. Bosie is what became of me. He is spoiled, vindictive, utterly selfish and not very talented, but these are merely the facts. The truth is he was Hyacinth when Apollo loved him, he is ivory and gold, from his red rose-leaf lips comes music that fills me with joy, he is the only one who understands me. 'Even as a teething child throbs with ferment, so does the soul of him who gazes upon the boy's beauty; he can neither sleep at night nor keep still by day,' and a lot more besides, but before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself. Then we saw what we had made — the piece of ice in the fist you cannot hold or let go. (He weeps.)”
Source: The Invention of Love
“Wilder Penfield concluded that the intellect and the will are not from the brain. They are from the mind. And that means that the mind can exist without the brain, without the body. It can exist non-locally, as a disembodied, out-of-body mind. And, in that state, it can be intellectual, conscious, and exercise its will. It can survive death like that. Plato and Aristotle both insisted that the reasoning part of the soul (the nous) was the “cosmic” part of the soul, and immortal. So, the part of the soul that engages in reason and logic, abstraction, conceptualization, intellectualism – all the stuff that prodding the brain or giving it an epileptic jolt cannot cause – is the part separate from physicality, hence cannot perish. Neuroscience has proved the great philosophers right!”
Source: The Ontological Self: The Ontological Mathematics of Consciousness
“Wilder's Wonka is, as in the book, the embellishment and excitement round the edges - his batty, barmy, nutty, screwy, dippy, dotty, daffy, goofy, beany, buggy, wacky, loony nature dazzling and drawing our attention but, narratively speaking, remaining decoration.”
Source: Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.