You have to take it as it happ...

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

~Old German proverb~

You have come into a hard worl...

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

~Henry Ward Beecher~

You can't fight the desert... ...

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

~Louis L'Amour~

Yet man is born unto trouble, ...

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

~Bible~

Wood may remain ten years in t...

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

~Congolese proverb~

Woman must not accept; she mus...

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

~Margaret Sanger~

Wisdom never kicks at the iron...

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

~Olive Schreiner~

Who except the gods can live w...

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

~Aeschylus~

When you make your peace with ...

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

~Jim Morrison~

When you have got an elephant ...

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

~Abraham Lincoln~

When we see ourselves in a sit...

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

~Thomas Jefferson~

When we accept tough jobs as a...

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

~Arland Gilbert~

When necessity speaks, it dema...

When necessity speaks, it demands.

~Russian proverb~

When I decided to go into poli...

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

~Herbert Hoover~

When a dog runs at you, whistl...

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

~Henry David Thoreau~

What you can't get out of, get...

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~

What must be shall be; and tha...

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

~Marcus Annaeus Seneca~

What it is forbidden to be put...

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

~Horace~

What has always made a hell on...

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

~Friedrich Holderlin~

What cannot be avoided, t'were...

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

~William Shakespeare~