List of Topics starting with [W]

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service ...

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a ...

Childhood love can endure but childhood promises are hard to keep.

And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

I felt my heart swell and crack. Of course he was the most ruggedly, powerful beautiful man I'd ever seen. Of course he would be. ...

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, ...

I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel ...

I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

Learning to trust God when He says "no" is a very important step in handling rejection. This is because God's character is not only seen ...

In depression, you're flattened. Your energy level is gone. When I'm anxious, I tend to have more energy. But it depends on the nature of ...

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list ...

When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could ...

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I ...

That's where the public like their artists - exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of ...

It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, ...

You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when ...

Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel ...

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to ...

His hands still held the windbreaker, his knuckles resting lightly on my breasts. An act of intimate possession more than of sexual aggression.

There is nothing in the world more pathetic than a bunch of wilted dandelions.

'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have ...

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. ...

I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself ...

I don't go to a gym. I find that really hard to do.

I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a ...

The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and ...

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most ...

Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how.""What version of Gone with ...

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those ...

The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much ...

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something ...

In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a ...

I can't seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any ...

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to ...

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the ...

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting ...

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... ...

Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be ...

You don't know what you have until it's not there anymore.

He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him ...

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to ...

But the one thing that totally drew me in was his eyes. They were green but it wasn't the color that I was fascinated by, ...

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often ...

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and ...

I liked feeling strong and was uncomfortable knowing that had vanished whne he left. was my happiness so completely tied to him now that i ...

I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.

In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf ...

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match ...

23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless ...

Stop wishing that the traffic wasn't so heavy, you live here, this is rush hour, deal with it.

Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.I don't know why, Fern. I tried to ...

You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing ...

With a tug, I pulled Len off his knees, wrapped my arms around him, andhugged him close. Behind his back, I flashed a middle finger ...

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think ...

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life ...

In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass ...

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual ...

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider

Well?""Well, what" she asked."Are we gonna do this or not?" ... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so ...

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature ...

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying ...

If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not ...

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so ...

May we embrace one another with love, a smile and a warm hug?

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.

The labels on the little bottles and boxes do not tell you which one is the sleeping pill. Instead they have names, long strange names ...

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than anybody ...

Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down.Mina: And you, Sir, should not look ...

Instead, an unexpected surprise was waiting for her when she walked in the door. Daisy's trusty West Highland Terrier Shamus was usually so well-behaved. Unfortunately, ...

I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need ...

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a ...

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who ...

Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to ...

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.

Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you go for a walk ...

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, ...

105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.