W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What people don’t understand is that it wasn’t about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.”
“what?
people exploit your gullibility?
let them.
remember, the more
people cut off leaves
of a tree, the much
faster it grows.”
Source: The Dark Light: Amethyst Heart in the City
“What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.”
Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State
“What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.”
“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.”
“What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.”
“What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.”
“What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.”
“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
“What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"”
“What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.”
“What people have to say is none of my business. They all have their own issues that make them say and do whatever they need to do.”
“What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.”
“What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.”
“What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.”
“What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.”
“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
“What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias - constipation, for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but because, on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.”
Source: Identity
“What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).”
“What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.”
“What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.”
“What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.”
Source: The Second Book of the Tao
“WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.”
“What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.”
“What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.”
“What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.”
Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series
“What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.”
“What people need and what they want may be very different.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.”
“What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.”
“What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.”
“What people need to remember is they are eternal beings and that they never die."~Kuan Yin”
Source: Beneficial Law of Attraction: the Manifestation Teachings
“What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'.”
“What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.”
“What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside. Something inside me is wrong. Sure, there are things in my life that make me feel alone, but nothing makes me feel more isolated and terrified than my own voice inside my head.”
“What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside. Something inside me is wrong. Sure there are things in my life that makes me feel alone, but nothing makes me feel more isolated and terrified than my own voice in my head.”
“What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.”
“What people offer cause them to be tolerated; Not loved.”
“What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.”
“What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.”
“What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.”
“What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing”
“What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.”
Source: Individuation in Fairy Tales
“What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.”
“What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.”
Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”
“What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement.”