W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.”
“What gets celebrated gets replicated.”
“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”
“What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.”
“What gets in the way of living with vitality," Tejpal asked.
Everything, I thought to myself.
"Wounds," Tejpal said. She talked about the importance of forgiveness, and how the most important step in forgiveness is to allow yourself to feel the pain of the hurt you received. Only then would the pain begin to heal.
Suddenly, Dracula leaned forward and spoke up. Even though this wasn't really a situation where you were supposed to speak without being called on. "That's not true," she blurted out angrily, her Long Island accent pulling all her vowels downward. "There are some things people do that hurt you forever and that cause scars that will never heal. Just 'cause you think about them doesn't mean they're going away."
All the women in the room turned around to stare at this angry person. This was supposed to be a touchy-feely, self-discovery happy place where Tejpal was in charge. You are not supposed to attack Tejpal. I sensed that people thought she was crazy and normally I would find her as annoying for not getting it as everyone else was, but instead I felt a wave of deep compassion. It was the first time during my visit to Miraval that I felt attuned to how deeply, painfully exposed people can allow themselves to be when there's even a sliver of permission to be honest.”
Source: You'll Grow Out of It
“What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.”
“What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.”
“What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.”
“What gets made that's considered for men - it's really just T&A stuff. It's not stuff than any guy I know really wants to watch, you know, the stuff with jiggling boobs and all that. Something with real sort of male themes and male strength and things I want to watch in a drama.”
“What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.”
“What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.”
“What gets me excited is the original principle.”
“What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.”
“What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.”
“What gets me up in the morning is either my daughter crawling into bed or my sons having to go to school. I love my family. They need a certain level of economic resources. They need my time. They need my attention. That's why I do what I do...and don't do what I don't do what I don't do.”
“What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.”
“What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated”
“What gets measured gets done.”
Source: The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness
“What gets measured gets improved.”
Source: The Robin Sharma Pack
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.”
“What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.”
“What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.”
“What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.”
“What gets tracked, gets measured
What gets measured, gets managed
What gets managed, is improved.”
“What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.”
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
“What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.”
“What gets you to improve is your decision to put the pluses there - you put the good there.”
“WHAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION, GETS YOU.”
“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?”
“What gifts you had, you were meant to share. What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.”
Source: Magic Lessons
“What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?”
“What girl would want what he did to me? But it’s the truth, whether anyone believes it or not. Driven toward it, toward him, I was the kind of girl that isn’t supposed to exist: one eager to hurl herself into the path of a pedophile”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.”
“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -Soren”
“What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.”
“What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.”
“What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?”
“What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.”
Source: Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life
“What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.”
“What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.”
“What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some promised land; it is the series of imperfect victories along the way that edge us closer to building the critical mass that eventually shifts the status quo.”
Source: Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
“What gives me hope? Knowing that with God all things are possible.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.”
Source: My Life at the Limit
“What gives me strength is thinking about my children.”