List of Topics starting with [W]

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do ... I honestly do ... From the bottom ...

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance ...

The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn't stop stalling and give me some relief pretty ...

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art ... ...

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

This is the part of the horror film where you yell at the girl on the screen,'Don't *go*. You idiot! Don't go! Why are they ...

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

High time they put the RAF in kilts.

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the ...

Around her the tables were filling with people, tourists planning their next stop over a coffee, businessmen meeting for luncheon, well-heeled women taking a break ...

But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many ...

He had never expected a title, never expected lands of his own or a household to go with them. His father had been a younger ...

Wakan Tanka never stops creating.

A man may sooner engrave the chronicle of a whole nation, or all the records of God in the Scripture upon the hardest marble with ...

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or ...

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there's the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and ...

The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us ...

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and ...

I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone ...

I started on the opening page of my own book.'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because ...

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and ...

Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, ...

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or ...

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, ...

We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we ...

I ... can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday.""It's almost four in the morning, Abby. What's going on?""I can't see you at all, actually.""Abs ...

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for ...

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with ...

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a ...

A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things ...

Marijuana brownies are amazing. Very simple to make, too. Just get some Duncan Hines brownie mix and cook the weed right in there. Drop it ...

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the ...

I will make wherever I am my home. Or I'll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future ...

Go for the impossible and you shall find out that it is possible! Impossibility is the fabrication of the coward and weak minds!

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;Courtesie grows in court; news in ...

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction.

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim ...

I would never be into splitting up. I don't think we should ever break up, I really don't. I think we should allow each person ...

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having ...

Forgiveness doesn't make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above ...

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered ...

Hell hath no fury like a woman, or perhaps a homosexual, scorned.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, ...

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a ...

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money ...

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. ...

Thoughts alone are potent writs of becoming.

I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. ...

The catechism of the vinyl LP involved a complex series of rituals over sleeves, sides played, needles, fluff and cloths, that were only enhanced by ...

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: Alcohol will turn ...

Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.

It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on ...

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we ...

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. ...

We need Christians who don't try to match God's words to their experience, but rather, whose experience is corrected, elevated, and altered by the Word's ...

Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories ...

There are too many shapes of love to be counted. One of them is forgiveness.

Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms ...

You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story ...

Old Friend The Witch and the Werecat Of Reading and Plots Thieves in the Castle A Costly Mistake Vision of Perfection

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at ...

Blind wantons like the gulls who screamAnd rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, ...

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately ...

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our ...

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...

The mechanimal sat back on his haunches and sent a puff of smoke at her, tail wagging back and forth hopefully.

In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and ...

It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over ...

Though wild turkeys may not be the PhDs of the bird world----that distinction goes to the common crow----they do have the capability to learn and ...

Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know ...

As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best ...

Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of ...

Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother ...

Ignominious grave, and I the cause! A thousand times

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an ...

But disasters are made of paper. You make a decision or two, then walk in to them like you would a harmless corner store, and ...

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple ...

The person who experiences most wins.

There are no definite rules (in writing). You learn as you go.

Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask."Maybe that's why we ...

Peace is not the absence of war - peace is the absence of fear.

****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...

Perhaps, as with advancing age, the physical life becomes less important and yet, paradoxically, more precious, this green revolution against the temporary death of winter ...

Pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol