W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Watching the trees bloom in a riot of pink clouds in spring, the red-gold sunrise in the skin of an apple, the shadows mingling on the moss, the moments of novelty and beauty hidden in the repetition— this was the orchard that captured Delphine. She tried to catch its movement in sketches and coax its colors into painted landscapes. And she knew, intuited it from the quietest, deepest part of herself, that there was more of that novelty and beauty waiting to be discovered. Waiting for her.”
Source: The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
“Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.”
“Watching the wonder of a dewdrop clinging on a tree leaf in the early morning sunlight can give us an ethereal thrill and at one time awaken the elapsed compass of our inner child. ("Why step out of nature")
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“Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand.”
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasn’t particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years were no way to count. Happenings were the way to count, the big happening that separated her from youth or even middle age was the death of her daughter, Pepper. That death made her realize that life, once you got around to producing children, was no longer about being pretty or having boyfriends or making money – it was about protecting children; getting them raised to the point where they could try life as adults. It didn’t have to be just children that come out of your body, either. It could be anyone young who needed something you had to give. Some grown men were children; some grown women, too. Harmony knew that she had spent a good part of her life, taking care of just such men. But now that she felt old she didn’t think she wanted to spend much more of her energy protecting men who had had a good chance to grow up, but had blown it. If she never had another boyfriend – something she had been worrying about, on the plane – it might be a little dull in some areas, like sexual areas, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
What would be the end of the world would be to let some little girl like Sheba get in the car with a bad man who would make a U-turn across the street and kill her right there in front of the pay phones, where pimps and crack dealers were making their calls.”
Source: The Late Child
“Watching them, I learned that love is not static; love does not divide. What love we find in the world is coming toward us and traveling away from us simultaneously. To say we find love is a misuse of the word find. Love finds us, passes through us, continues. We cannot find it any more than we can find air or water; we cannot live without either thing more than we can live without love. Love is essential and as common as bread. If you look for it, you will see it everywhere, and you will never be without it.”
Source: The Map That Leads to You
“Watching them opens your inner being. Just watching them opens your inner eye and that is the real eye; the outside eyes are of not much use. You are fortunate that you don't have them. You are blessed! Blessed are the blind for they shall not be forced to see this ugly world! And it is really ugly - believe me!”
“Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.”
Source: Death Before Daylight
“Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.”
“Watching these happy beings for whom weeping was impossible, he had become incapable of grief; watching their inconsistencies, he had become incapable of knowing right from wrong; disregarded by them he had become incapable of disappointment.”
Source: Kingdoms of Elfin
“Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.”
Source: The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
“Watching Tory is like watching poetry on ice. He moves with graceful precision that maintains a certain level of brutality.”
Source: Icing Hearts
“Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?”
Source: The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:
“Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.”
“Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.”
“Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it.”
Source: The Other Bennet Sister
“Watching what you eat ought to include knowing what what you eat ate.”
“Watching winter and really listening to its messages, we learn that effect is often disproportionate to cause; that tiny mistakes can lead to huge disasters; that life is often bloody unfair, but it carries on happening with our without our consent. We learn to look more kindly on other people's crises, because they are so often portents of our own future.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Watching you at work, I was reminded of the young lady of Natchez, whose clothes were all tatters and patches. In alluding to which, she would say, "Well, Ah itch, and wherever ah itches, Ah scratches.”
Source: Cocktail Time
“Watching you has taught me that a man need not be weak to have a faith, but is made strong by it.”
Source: A Stray Drop of Blood
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”
“Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.”
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”
“Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.”
“Watching your wildest dreams come true is like discovering a dazzling jewel. It will arouse feelings of pure joy and fulfillment as though you have uncovered a hidden part of yourself. Be willing to take bold steps towards such an exhilarating experience.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need, above all, to be shaken out of our indifference—the greatest source of danger in the world.
For, remember: the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. The opposite of faith is not arrogance by indifference; the opposite of culture is not ignorance but indifference; the opposite of art is not ugliness but indifference. And the opposite of peace is indifference to both peace and war—indifference to hunger and persecution, to imprisonment and humiliation, indifference to torture and persecution.”
Source: The Six Days of Destruction: Meditations Toward Hope
“Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.”
“Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment.
We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb.”
“Water a farre off quencheth not fire.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.”
Source: The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy
“Water always finds its own level.”
Source: An American Marriage
“Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.”
“Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain.”
Source: Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
“Water and air He for the Tenor chose,
Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave.
The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow,
And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
As made this decent measur'd dance of all.
And this is Musick.”
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
“Water and fine wine don't mix nor match!" - Sister Mercy”
Source: Requiem Infernal
“Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower.”
“Water and I have always gotten along. I was not a child who complained about having to take a bath or a shower, because I enjoyed being alone somewhere where people could not interrupt me, or if they did, I could pretend not to hear them over the water running.”
Source: Poison for Breakfast
“Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.”
“Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.”
“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.”
“Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.”
“Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind”
“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.”
“Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.”
Source: Tender Buttons
“Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.”
“Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.”
Source: Afternoon Raag