Top 100 When What Quotes
#1. Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.
Maya Banks
#2. Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The
Dennis Lehane
#3. When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.
Brie Larson
#4. If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#5. The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.
Ram Dass
#6. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer
#7. Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
A. N. Wilson
#9. The whispers, "Thank you for your honesty." Easy to say that when what I did doesn't affect them.
Veronica Roth
#10. Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.
Arianna Huffington
#11. I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.
Robert Penn Warren
#12. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spent your time. On the other hand, when what you actually work on and accomplish during the day is mostly different from what really matters to you, you feel unfulfilled.
Matt Perman
#13. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.
Jane Hirshfield
#14. The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
Richard Pascale
#15. I can't begin to guess her story, except that there were undoubtedly two times or three, when what had happened to her was grievously at odds with what she had expected - so grievously at odds that any return to the faith or the patterns of the time before the event became impossible.
Deirdre McNamer
#16. It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
J.M. Barrie
#17. You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
Joshua Cohen
#18. There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#20. When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.
Danny Kaye
#21. On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.
Walter Isaacson
#22. When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
George Eliot
#23. I said I love you
when what I meant to say was
"I'm afraid of being alone."
I said I need you
when what I meant to say was
"I need to learn how to love myself.
Sade Andria Zabala
#24. Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.
Kate Atkinson
#25. There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
Dani Harper
#26. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.
Marisa Silver
#27. When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.
T.F. Hodge
#28. I don't care. They can think what they want."
"Since when? What happened to the nervous, mysterious, guarded Abby I know and love?"
"She died from the stress of all the rumors and assumptions.
Jamie McGuire
#29. There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Baldwin Spencer
#30. All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our
Christina Lamb
#31. When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.
Jeffrey Russell
#32. All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.
Jonathan L. Howard
#33. Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
Jackson Pearce
#34. God is always good and we are always loved ... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
Ann Voskamp
#35. Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#36. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
Colson Whitehead
#37. There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
John Stuart Mill
#38. After you've found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend so much time fearing rejection, when what we really should fear is not trying at all.
Mitch Rowland
#39. That's because speakers are only credible when what they say is in sync with who they are.
Christopher Witt
#40. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.
Rebecca Solnit
#41. Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.
J. Budziszewski
#42. It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#43. It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!
Mother Teresa
#44. But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.
Cinda Williams Chima
#45. There comes a time in our lives when what we know becomes less important than what we love. And that what we love, when all is said and done, might be the most important of all things.
Dan Krzyzkowski
#46. I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
Woody Allen
#47. When you were young you talked about 'falling in love' with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind.
Liane Moriarty
#48. Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
#49. When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.
Lisa Gansky
#50. I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
Lech Walesa
#51. Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.
Jim Brown
#52. Grinding his teeth to keep from lashing out, Caillen did as instructed. A little belligerently, granted, still he did obey as he'd promised his father he would. But it was hard to sit up straight when what he really wanted to do was give the pompous ass in front of him a goblet enema.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Tariq Ali
#55. When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
#56. It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
Graham Greene
#57. When what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see.
Robert Jordan
#58. Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.
Reif Larsen
#59. People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.
Nora Roberts
#60. It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish?
Kiera Cass
#61. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#62. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
Marya Hornbacher
#63. Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.
Jean Ferris
#64. Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
J. Gresham Machen
#65. Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.
Phil Cousineau
#66. You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.
Dov Davidoff
#67. If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.
Marshall Goldsmith
#68. Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
P. J. O'Rourke
#69. I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach.
Srikumar Rao
#70. Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
Liz Phair
#71. When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.
Shane West
#72. We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
Robert Breault
#73. A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin
#74. At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.
Bell Hooks
#75. The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
Stephen Covey
#76. Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
Carlos Slim
#77. Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
John McKnight
#78. What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know
Jim Rohn
#79. If you're going to do something that crazy, save it for when it'll make a difference, Lieutenant Skaaiat had said, and I had agreed. I still agree.
The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference.
Ann Leckie
#80. These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
#81. We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
Marc E. Platt
#82. There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we're called to do hurts.
Russ Ramsey
#83. Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart
Molly McAdams
#84. The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.
Will Advise
#85. It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.
Paulo Coelho
#86. People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
H.L. Mencken
#87. No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.
Lauren Oliver
#88. All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future
a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life
is gone. [p. 149]
Sylvia Boorstein
#89. When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
Jean De La Bruyere
#90. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
Thomas L. Friedman
#91. There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
Anne Bernays
#92. Art begins ... when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.
Chaim Potok
#93. When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.
Cortney S. Warren
#94. A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.
Tadeusz Borowski
#95. How in the world
when what is such knowledge but suffering?
Henry James
#96. For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.
Delia Ephron
#97. Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
George Eliot
#98. Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream.
I am sorry. You make me ashamed of what we are, of what little we can offer you, and I lashed out at you when what I really wanted was to punish my own dark thoughts.
Robin LaFevers
#99. I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.
Ne-Yo
#100. It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
Jean Webster
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