W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.”
“When a mutual adversary opposes, allies join forces against.”
“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”
“When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.”
“When a narcissist and flying monkeys see that you are onto their sly tricks, they will argue with you. This is their final attempt to find a way out of getting caught. No matter how much they scream, cuss, and fight with you, their arguments are to trip you up. They want to provoke you into more conflicts. Remember, they crave narcissistic supply. This is why they are projecting and gaslighting you. They need you to have a negative emotional reaction to them. It feeds the fuel with them. Don’t participate in the drama, denial, and dysfunction.”
Source: Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma
“When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.”
“When a nation cannot pay its spies well enough, such a country is far from sustaining its army on the battlefield - and far from winning a war. Great tactics are sketched in peace times not during the war, for such is an emergency.”
“When a nation chooses an oppressive and reactionary government in election, it does not only betray its own country, but also betray humanity because only free minds in a free country can make a good contribution to humanity!”
“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?”
“When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.”
Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.”
Source: The Simple Way
“When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.”
“When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.”
“When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.”
Source: Howard Zinn on War
“When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!”
“When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“When a nation's defense budget overwhelms its spending on education, know that something is fundamentally wrong with that nation.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“When a nation stays neutral, it's a sovereign country with free will, but when it joins a bloc like NATO, it becomes an army base of an over-ambitious superpower that wants to control world order.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“When a nation uses their improperly gained or intelligence-wise gained information to take policy positions that impact another nation's democracy or their approach to any issue, then that raises real serious matters.”
“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“When a national government needs to raise funds for its various activities—be it building infrastructure, funding social programs, or managing its debt—it turns to the bond market. It issues government bonds, essentially borrowing money from investors in exchange for regular interest payments and the promise to repay the principal.
at maturity.”
Source: Bond ing: The Power of Investing in Bonds
“When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!”
Source: NMAA Cooks
“When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“When a new book appears one should read an old one.”
Source: The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill
“When a new book is published, read an old one.”
“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”
Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.”
“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can –
At all times, Dare to be!”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free: Anniversary Edition
“When a new experience comes into my life, it doesn't feel real anymore until I've shared it with you.”
Source: Love & Saffron
“When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.”
“When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.”
“When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.”
“When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.”
“When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.”
“When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”
“When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.”
“When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.”
“When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.”
Source: Writing Life Stories
“When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.”
“When a newspaper comes out that says 'Duff' Puff - she must have gained 15 pounds' or something like that, how would any normal person react?”
“When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“When a noble soul is touched by pain, its ache is not just to be observed but remembered—not merely out of courtesy, but as a solemn recognition of what we, in our silence or delay, failure to save, protect, or defend.”
“When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.”
“When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.”