W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a journalist is a pathological liar. Every breaking news is a cooked-up story.”
“When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions”
Source: The Tempting of America
“When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.”
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of that role, and not some group of prejudices of his own. So what you’re standing up to is a mythological character. I imagine some kings and queens are the most stupid, absurd, banal people you could run into, probably interested only in horses and women, you know. But you’re not responding to them as personalities, you’re responding to them in their mythological roles. When someone becomes a judge, or President of the United States, the man is no longer that man, he’s the representative of an eternal office; he has to sacrifice his personal desires and even life possibilities to the role that he now signifies.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.”
“When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.”
“When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.”
“When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.”
“When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.”
“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”
“When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.”
“When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.”
“When a king is seated on the throne, nothing takes away his given title, not even hatred from the subjects. Stop seeking approval from those who disapprove of your success, and be confident in your self-worth.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton
“When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.”
“When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope”
“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”
“When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.”
“When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.”
“When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.”
Source: The Land of Green Ginger
“When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“When a lady is ready to marry, she has to wait for a man to come for her.
When a man is ready to marry, he just has to make his choice”
“When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.”
“When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.”
Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
“When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.”
“When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world. Tom says that even words as basic as numbers are imbued with layers of meaning. The numbers we use to count plants in the sweetgrass meadow also recall the Creation Story. Én:ska—one. This word invokes the fall of Skywoman from the world above. All alone, én:ska, she fell toward the earth. But she was not alone, for in her womb a second life was growing. Tékeni—there were two. Skywoman gave birth to a daughter, who bore twin sons and so then there were three—áhsen. Every time the Haudenosaunee count to three in their own language, they reaffirm their bond to Creation.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.”
“When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.”
Source: Democracy in America
“When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.”
“When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.”
Source: The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, April 1807-December 1813
“When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.”
“When a leader correctly identifies real hurt and insecurity in our country and instead of addressing it, goes looking for somebody to blame, there is perhaps nothing more devastating to a pluralistic society.”
“When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.”
“When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.”
“When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.”
“When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.”
“When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.”
Source: The Complete 101 Collection
“When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.”
Source: The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
“When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.”
“When a leader nurtures an environment of trust, respect, and honesty—business soars, creativity and problem-solving are inspired, and collaboration enables people get more done in less time.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team”
“When a learned philosopher was in the throes of death, he said: Had I known how listening is superior to speaking, I would not have wasted my life preaching. Eloquent speech is perhaps as fine as gold but unspoken words are even more precious.”
“When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.”
Source: Canadian Stories
“When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.”