W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.”
“When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.”
“When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father's courtship of his mother, I have to assume there is some moral for me in the tale. Since in this case that courtship consisted primarily of his father insisting repeatedly they were to marry and his mother refusing him almost as often, I take the moral to be that there is very little point in refusing, since it would only lead to the question being repeated until I agreed to it out of sheer exhaustion.”
Source: The Darcys of Derbyshire: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
“When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”
“When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“When a gift is given in love and received with gratitude, both giver and receiver feel joy. How much joy would we feel if the gift is never opened? God bestows blessings and gifts upon you every day because He loves you. Find, open and embrace your gifts. You are worth it.”
Source: Where the Gospel and the 12 Steps Meet: Accessing the Enabling Power of Jesus Christ
“When a gift to a child passes along the palm of a mother's hand, it becomes more precious.”
Source: A Crown for Our Queen
“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.”
Source: Winner Within Success
“When a girl cries over a guy,she really loves him.when a guy cries over a girl ,he will never love another girl like her.”
“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy”
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.”
“When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.”
Source: The Wednesday Wars
“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”
Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel
“When a girl is forced to endure such a violation, she learns to question everything about herself, her worth, her value, and her power.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“When a girl is hurt, she will have a lot of people to help her out. But when the same happens to a boy, he’s always alone.”
“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”
Source: Sister Carrie
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.”
“When a girl or woman starts telling you her personal life she does not need a solution. She just wants you to listen. She trusts you and she just wants you to give her some time. Don't give her any solution unless she asks you for it. Women and girls usually don't trust a lot of people. So if she is sharing her personal concerns with you then it means that she really trusts you. For a girl or woman to share her personal stuff with you needs a lot of trust and confidence. Be happy to have her trust and confidence in life”
“When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved”
“When a girl smiles, she's as beautiful as a blooming flower.”
“When a girl turns fourteen, she changes. She gets acne, or she is not supremely skinny. She is not beautiful anymore.”
Source: Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
“When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.”
“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”
“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.
- The Trouble With Reading”
“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.”
Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation
“When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.”
Source: The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
“When a good artist finds a perfect working environment, she wants to create a perfect work because her sensitive soul wants to pay her debt perfectly to that perfect place!”
“When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!”
“When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.”
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
Source: The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version
“When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.”
Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi
“When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.”
“when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.”
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.”
“When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.”
“When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“When a government is astray, it opens its zippers.”
Source: Plotless
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation”
“When a government is led by greedy, selfish people, its problems never end or go away. They create situations or problems to justify using and stealing tax money. They manufacture emergencies that require financial solutions.
They end up oppressing and killing people to profit and benefit. They are willing to commit treason, sabotage, tamper with or destroy infrastructure, and oppose any progress or movement. They are willing to kill people, ruin careers, jobs, and lives for personal gain. They are behind all the problems we face in the country.”
“When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.”
“When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.”
“When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.”
“When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.”