W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“What you're thinking about is what you are being.”
“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest
“What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you”
“What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.”
“What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.”
“What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.”
“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
“What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.”
“What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.”
Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
“What you've got is 30,000 people calling you an asshole.- Stone Cold Steve Austin What I've got is 30,000 people I couldn't care less if they lived or died.”
“What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.”
“What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.”
“What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.”
“What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!”
“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm ones, that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn’t choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.
And so, if this man next to her now was not a man she would have chosen before this time, what did it matter: He most likely wouldn’t have chosen her either. But here they were, and Olive pictured two slices of Swiss cheese pressed together, such holes they brought to this union—what pieces life took out of you.
Her eyes were closed, and throughout her tired self swept waves of gratitude—and regret. She pictured the sunny room, the sun-washed wall, the bayberry outside. It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”
“What your audience has to say about your product matters more than what you have to say about it.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What your dad did was terrible, there's no two ways about it. But I think you've got to try to forgive him, if not for his sake, then for your own.”
Source: A Song of Me and You
“What your enemies know can hurt you,
but what your friends know can destroy you.”
“What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.”
“What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“what your heart can’t settle… just give it to the universe”
“What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.”
“What your heart loves will always be beautiful to your eyes.”
“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.”
“What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.”
Source: Wisdom For Winning
“What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.”
Source: From 12 to 6 (More Nightly Visits)
“What your mind wants to believe will become the reality, regardless of the truth or falsity in the statement.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“What your problem is, you're all just a raindrop. One of an endless number. If only you'd just accept it, things would be so much easier. Say it with me: I am a drop in the ocean. I am neighbour, nation, north, and nowhere. I am one among many and we all fall together.
Or maybe I'm just a rat with wings and I don't know what I'm talking about.”
Source: Pigeon English
“What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.”
“what your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations
“What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.”
“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”
“What Zach meant to say all along, what he means to say when he speaks of potatoes with cumin is, You strip me clean. It hurts to be near you. I love you so much. Rachel, Rachel. The most. Better than anything.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.”
Source: One Minute to Midnight
“What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.”
“What Zuckerberg has in mind for Horizon is a dystopian advertising nightmare.”
“What! All this for a song?”
“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.”
“What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!”
“What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr”
“What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!”
Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated
“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?”
“What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?”