W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Source: The Slogan
“Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.”
“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”
“Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.”
Source: Flourish
“Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.”
“Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... its what I feel like.”
“Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.”
“Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.”
“Well-bred English people never have imagination.”
Source: Clouds of Witness
“Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.”
“Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.”
“Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.”
“Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.”
“Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.”
“Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.”
“Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.”
“Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.”
Source: Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote
“Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.”
“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”
Source: Roscoe
“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.”
“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.”
“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.”
“Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
“Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those who espouse Christianity beware! After digesting the evidence, you will never again view your religion in the same light.”
“Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.”
“Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.”
“Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.”
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments
“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.”
“Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.”
“Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.”
“Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”
“Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.”
“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And ... well ... I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us ... I want you to be happy”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.”
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.”
“Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In the middle of this town, you’d have a dozen people dead every time the full moon came around. What’s going on?” “A dozen people are dying every time the full moon comes around.”
Source: Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files
“Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary”
“Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.”
Source: Island
“Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.”
“Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the
tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you
just don't know. You can't really get anything from a
lot of them once they get into power. They totally
forget about all their commitments. The poor people
elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.”
“Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.”