W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wash out the darkness like the scarlet sun - be the cloud and run towards the thirsty land to drench it with your soothing monsoon - be the breeze and share happiness with others beyond all petty selfishness.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.”
Source: The Tiger's Wife
“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”
“Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.”
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“Wash your face before bed every night. Your skin will thank you - and your pillow too!”
“Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.”
Source: Songs in the Night
“Wash your gullet with wine for the Dog Star returns
with the hear of summer searing a thirsting earth.
Cicadas cry softy under high leaves, and pour down
shrill song incessantly from under their wings.
The artichoke blooms, and women are warm and wanton—
but men turn lean and limp for the burning Dog Star
parches their brains and knees.”
“Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.”
“Washed and waiting. That is my life – my identity as one who is forgiven and spiritually cleansed and my struggle as one who perseveres with a frustrating thorn in the flesh, looking forward to what God has promised to do. That is what this book is all about.”
Source: Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality
“Washed-out like last year’s swimsuit.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.”
“Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.”
“Washing machine failure has become a common thing these days. And get everything done right on its time. but no one thinks that For how long will this be good? Within a few days it gets worse again. Because the reason for this is not getting good services or repairs. Because the masons who fix it do not fix it properly. So it gets bad again. But now you have no need to worry. Because My Homey brings you the best technicians and a promising team. who will give you such services That all the problems of your washing machine will be removed in one go and it will support you for a long time.”
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation
“Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.”
“Washing the depths of dark, there comes the play of light, for spring breeze comes flirting with flowers, as winter has bade a farewell.”
“Washing the depths of dark, there comes the play of light, where spring breeze flirts with the flowers and winter has bade farewell.”
“Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.”
“Washing your hands of something requires soap.”
“WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted on having a say in the matter. The president, they declared, could not, or at least should not, take the country back to war without the input of the nation's elected representatives.”
“Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.”
“Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.”
“Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.”
“Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.”
“Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.”
“Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.”
Source: Sermons
“Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he believes that same ruling that stopped the first version of the ban should still apply to the second version of the ban because it is basically the same ban. It is basically the same policy.”
“Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.”
“Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!”
“Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.”
“Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.”
“Washington, D.C. is so confusing in the spring. The days grow increasingly hot and humid, but the nights hold on to winter for as long as possible. On some days the grass is still frosted over in the mornings, stiff and crunchy, even if it wilts before the first class starts. If you are not careful you get caught in the weather's nostalgia and at night, a windbreaker or a sweater isn't enough.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.”
“Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.”
“Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.”
“Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.”
“Washington establishment... This is perhaps the wealthiest, the most exclusive club of human beings in the world. The people permitted admission or membership in this group have the opportunity to influence practically anything and everything happening in the wealthiest and most powerful city in the world, Washington, D.C.”
“Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, but for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. An education system flushed with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. We've defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own.”
“Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.”
Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events
“Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.”
“Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.”
“Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.”
“Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.”
“Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.”
“Washington has never seen anything like President Donald Trump.”
“Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.”
“Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.”
“Washington hides its poverty better than any city in the world. Just blocks from the mall and Capitol Hill, where thousands of tourists mill about each day, people cover their windows with towels to keep out the rain, and nail boards across their doors when they lock up at night. Though my sister lived up above Adams-Morgan, she practiced in Southeast, "where the people lived." She was tougher than I could ever be.”
Source: Erasure