W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.”
“When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way.”
“When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.”
“When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.”
“When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)”
Source: Notes on a Cellar-Book
“When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.”
“When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.”
“When a 3 pound brain drops on a bigot in its complete vastness, bigotry don't just blush, it's blasted to ashes.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.”
“When a baby dies before they have a chance to create their own story, I think one of the biggest fears parents have is that they will disappear, be forgotten. It's up to those who knew them to spread their legacy, should that be something that's in their hearts to do.”
Source: Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
“When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.”
“When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the "us" comprised of individuals but the species itself. By protecting this one baby this gift a mother accepts life's clearest responsibility.”
Source: Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
“When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.”
“When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
“When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.”
“When a bad experience shakes your faith
in humanity, hold those depressing thoughts
and ask yourself.
1. How many things in life have you achieved
Without anyone’s help ?
I can almost guarantee none.
The help may be in terms of an action,
an advise, direction or mere presence.
2. How many times has someone just come in
from nowhere in your time of need and said
or done just what you needed at that moment.
Each one of us is an angel for someone. Let's be that angel more often.”
“When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a frisbee.”
“When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.”
“When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.”
“When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."”
“When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.”
“When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.”
“When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does not take this money from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.”
“When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.”
“When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?”
“When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.”
Source: Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
“When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”
“When a beast invades your house and starts abusing your loved ones, would you sit back waiting for the authorities to intervene - you may, but I can't - I won't - for me family and society are one, and when wild animals run rampant abusing that family of mine, I would die defending my family, not sit back like a spineless coward.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.”
Source: Black Art
“When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!”
“When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future!”
“When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“When a beautiful woman accompanies
someone, and if she is seated so
close to him, isn't it enough for
him to feel romantic? #LIFE OF LOVE”
“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.”
Source: Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei
“When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.”
“When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.”
“When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.”
Source: Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
“When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part of assistance to the animal kingdom one is brought to your own awareness of what you are capable of firstly even before you're given access to what goes on here. When the dimensions work here there are no issues or fears, just full awareness in each moment of who we really are and what it is we are currently busy assisting with, therefore I have a lot still to learn.”
“When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.”
“When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.”
Source: Learning How to Learn
“When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)
“When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”
Source: Laws
“When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise.
When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.”
Source: The Secret Daily Teachings
“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.”
“When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.”
“When a big ship and a small boat come together, you will see that the latter is happier than the former because it has much less problems!”
“When a big tree falls, the ground shakes”
“When a big vision meets a dysfunctional system, the dysfunctional system wins every time. Fix the system and success will flourish!”