W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.”
“When both cares for each other, it's friendship and when one cares for the other, it's love,”
“When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.”
“When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”
Source: Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker
“When both sides don't want you to do it, You know its the right thing to do”
Source: Lenny Thompson: Lady Mantis
“When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.”
“When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.”
“When Bouchard’s twin-processing operation was in full swing, he amassed a staff of eighteen—psychologists, psychiatrists, ophthalmologists, cardiologists, pathologists, geneticists, even dentists. Several of his collaborators were highly distinguished: David Lykken was a widely recognized expert on personality, and Auke Tellegen, a Dutch psychologist on the Minnesota faculty, was an expert on personality measuring.
In scheduling his twin-evaluations, Bouchard tried limiting the testing to one pair of twins at a time so that he and his colleagues could devote the entire week—with a grueling fifty hours of tests—to two genetically identical individuals. Because it is not a simple matter to determine zygosity—that is, whether twins are identical or fraternal—this was always the first item of business. It was done primarily by comparing blood samples, fingerprint ridge counts, electrocardiograms, and brain waves. As much background information as possible was collected from oral histories and, when possible, from interviews with relatives and spouses. I.Q. was tested with three different instruments: the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, a Raven, Mill-Hill composite test, and the first principal components of two multiple abilities batteries. The Minnesota team also administered four personality inventories (lengthy questionnaires aimed at characterizing and measuring personality traits) and three tests of occupational interests.
In all the many personality facets so laboriously measured, the Minnesota team was looking for degrees of concordance and degrees of difference between the separated twins. If there was no connection between the mean scores of all twins sets on a series of related tests—I.Q. tests, for instance—the concordance figure would be zero percent. If the scores of every twin matched his or her twin exactly, the concordance figure would be 100 percent. Statistically, any concordance above 30 percent was considered significant, or rather indicated the presence of some degree of genetic influence.
As the week of testing progressed, the twins were wired with electrodes, X-rayed, run on treadmills, hooked up for twenty-four hours with monitoring devices. They were videotaped and a series of questionnaires and interviews elicited their family backgrounds, educations, sexual histories, major life events, and they were assessed for psychiatric problems such as phobias and anxieties.
An effort was made to avoid adding questions to the tests once the program was under way because that meant tampering with someone else’s test; it also would necessitate returning to the twins already tested with more questions. But the researchers were tempted. In interviews, a few traits not on the tests appeared similar in enough twin pairs to raise suspicions of a genetic component. One of these was religiosity. The twins might follow different faiths, but if one was religious, his or her twin more often than not was religious as well. Conversely, when one was a nonbeliever, the other generally was too. Because this discovery was considered too intriguing to pass by, an entire additional test was added, an existing instrument that included questions relating to spiritual beliefs.
Bouchard would later insist that while he and his colleagues had fully expected to find traits with a high degree of heritability, they also expected to find traits that had no genetic component. He was certain, he says, that they would find some traits that proved to be purely environmental. They were astonished when they did not. While the degree of heritability varied widely—from the low thirties to the high seventies— every trait they measured showed at least some degree of genetic influence. Many showed a lot.”
Source: Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality
“When bound by a partial truth, embrace the whole truth and be free.”
Source: From Iron To Blade: Assassins and Blades
“When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.”
“When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely. You're moreaware. You know the limited range of the bow is only 40 yards or so. You must try to outwait that approaching deer. Careful not to make the slightest movement or sound hoping that your scent won't suddenly waft his way. That's when you'll know for sure and appreciate deeply what bow-hunting is all about.”
“When boxed-in and bleeding, prosecutors often become wildly creative with new theories of guilt.”
Source: The Guardians
“When boxed in, become steam. When dropped, become a wave. Always become.”
Source: Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age
“When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.”
“When boxers fight 3 minutes (per round), they have 3 minutes to box, so they are not in a hurry to show the judges who is winning. They have time to slow down their feet. In 2 minute (round) fights, they don't have time to slow down their feet. It's a fast speed because they only have 2 minutes.”
“When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.”
“When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.”
Source: Dante Called You Beatrice
“When boys called our names, we said 'Don't even say my name. Don't even put it in your mouth.' When they said, 'You ugly anyway,' we knew they were lying. When they hollered, 'Conceited!' we said, 'No- convinced!' We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together wasn't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.”
Source: Another Brooklyn
“When boys talked, it sounded like feral dogs barking. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down.”
Source: Juliet Takes a Breath
“When boys unite hearts with all souls and creatures they become gentle men.
When girls unite hearts with all souls and creatures they become gentle women.
When humanity unites with the heart of the ONE, an era of peace and love shall return to earth.”
“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.”
“When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told the story, it had an affect on people. At its core, this was an effective story.”
“When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".”
“When brain stops,
When heart stops,
What is left of you?
When eyes fail,
When memory fails,
What is left of you?
When your last molecule
has merged with nature,
What is left of you?
That's what you've really achieved -
Testament to the fact that,
there ever was a you.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“When brands talk about themselves in real time, it’s just boring faster.”
“When breath of one becomes the breath of all,
All atrocious walls will collapse into dust.
When there’s no more ‘my people your people’,
Only then we will be human at last.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.”
“When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.”
“When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.”
“When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.”
“When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.”
“When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.”
Source: Fire
“When broken people try to complete each other it is like forcing unfit puzzle pieces together because they are somewhat similar.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“When broom sticks are tied together, it doesn't mean they are all equal. They just communicate the power of unity in accomplishing a task.”
“When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.”
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
“When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate”
“When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.”
“When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.”
Source: Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
“When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).”
“when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.”
“When building a team always rely on God”
“When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.”
“When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.”
“When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord.”
“When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'”
“When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.”
“When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now”