W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When climbing a mountain
you get further away from earth
but closer to yourself”
“When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.”
“When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one’s bedroom, in more than half of the country’s states plus the nation’s capital.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“When clothes wear you, it's pretty evident. You've got to wear the clothes, not the other way around.”
“When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers
“When clouds become the waves and I can't tell the difference anymore, I truly am free, this is life as I know it, overlapping symmetry”
Source: You've Already Arrived
“When clouds full of water fail to rain, they create a depressing weather. Similarly, some people are so full of love that when they fail to rain it, they feel sad and depressed for no apparent reason.”
“When clouds of pain loom in the sky
When a shadow of sadness flickers by
When a tear finds its way to the eye
When fear keeps the loneliness alive
I try and console my heart
Why is it that you cry? I ask
This is only what life imparts
These deep silences within
Have been handed out to all by time
Everyone’s story has a little sorrow
Everyone’s share has a little sunshine
No need for water in your eyes
Every moment can be a new life
Why do you let them pass you by?
Oh heart, why is it that you cry?”
“When Cole entered his darkened room on the Benedict, he said, "Hello, Kenneth."
There was a rich chuckle from the corner of the room
"My, my! How is it you knew I'd be here?" said Kenneth.
Cole smiled to himself. Since leaving MaryAnn's house, he'd been saying "Hello, Kenneth" each time he turned a corner or entered a new space, figuring that eventurally he'd be right.”
Source: The Sheriff of Yrnameer
“When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.”
“When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.”
“When Colleen Hoover said, “It was nice meeting you, Lily Bloom. I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours,” I felt that.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“When Colonel Lloyd's slaves met the slaves of Jacob Jepson, they seldom parted without a quarrel about their masters; Colonel Lloyd's slaves contending that he was the richest, and Mr. Jepson's slaves that he was the smartest, and most of a man...These quarrels would almost always end in a fight between the parties...They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.”
“When colours are surrounded by black they glow out of the dark and that gives the colours a special importance. If you put colours on white, in a white frame or in white surroundings, then they appear muddy. White dulls the colours.”
“When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.”
“When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.”
“When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.”
Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.”
“When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.”
“When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.”
“When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.”
“When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.”
“When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.”
“When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.”
“When coming to sex: First served, first come.”
“When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against.”
“When commanded by the Jewish officials to quit invoking the name of Jesus Christ, Peter responded, "And there is salvation in no one else: for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Remember, Peter was a Jew, speaking to a group of Jews, claiming that there is no salvation for Jewish people - or anyone else - apart from faith in Jesus Christ.”
“When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.”
“When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.”
Source: Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
“When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.”
“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”
Source: Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener
“When common sense and civic sense
combine with student sense,
world learns the meaning of sapiens.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”
Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age
“When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.”
“When communication starts fading, the relationship starts fading too.”
“When Communication with others is from love to love... it is deeply satisfying and healthy.”
“When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.”
“When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.”
“When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.”
“When community and individuality become one, tyranny and oppression turn into history.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”
“When companies embrace accessibility for persons with disabilities, they open doors to a broader audience, ensuring that their products and services are easily accessible to everyone, enriching the society as a whole.Inclusivity in design is not just a noble goal; it's smart business. By making products and services accessible to persons with disabilities, companies can tap into a wider market and create solutions that benefit all members of society.”
“When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.”
“When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.”
“When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.”