W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.”
“When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.”
“When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to clean energy, they didn't have any fuel to burn, and they also had to transition to a healthy food system, an organic system - their economy is crashing, this was not a planned transition. This was a crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, in which pollution went away. And it's very instructive to see what happened to their health.”
“When cultivating a growth mindset, clarity is essential. And it begins with knowing and understanding your motivations.”
“When cultural disciplines are in the service of Eros, ethics are transformed from the rules of repression into the technique of expression, and morality becomes the aesthetics of behavior.”
Source: psychotherapy east and west
“when cultural stories remain hidden and untold, they tend to disappear, at least temporarily, leaving one with a void of information about the self. (p.38)”
Source: Belonging Metis
“When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.”
“When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.”
“When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent, but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“When culture is code for division, you gotta be uncultured to find assimilation.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“When culture is code for division,
You gotta be uncultured to find assimilation.
When hagiographies are passed on as heritage,
To be heretic is the first course of action.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.”
“When culture shifts--and we know it always will--we should get excited. Because in the midst of those chaotic, unsettling changes, we live on solid ground. In Christ, we have the hope the world needs. And like the prophet Daniel, we are catalysts for redemptive change--people of influence, who know our goal is not to be right, but to be effective.”
Source: The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise
“When Cupid takes aim, the stupid of us don’t know to duck.”
Source: Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures
“When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.”
Source: Aphorisms
“When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.”
“When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.”
Source: The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
“When customers feel like you value them — like they’re truly special to you — they’ll keep coming back.”
Source: Happy Customers
“When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.”
“When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.”
“When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about?I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?No!No?No. I haven't had my tea.”
Source: The great sermon handicap
“When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.”
Source: The Common Sense of Science
“When Dad died, he took all his memories with him. Everything I didn't know about him - every question never asked and every story never told - can never be known now that he's dead. It's like losing your only copy of a book before you finish reading the story, except it's the only copy of the book ever. There's no way to get those pages back.”
Source: The Other Mother
“When Dad was in the middle of a description of the hotel’s laundry facility, I interrupted. “Why haven’t you told me today, like you do every day, that Mom’s going to be better soon?”
He looked up then. His gaze locked with mine and held a promise that no matter what he said or didn’t say, he and I would ride this out together. “I haven’t told you that today, Meg, because I don’t know.”
Source: Glass Girl
“When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things”
“When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”
“When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.”
“When Daisy left, it was like the Ferris wheel stopped turning and we all got off.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.”
“When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.”
Source: A Language Older Than Words
“when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.”
Source: Push Comes to Shove
“When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.”
Source: Eden Fading
“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.”
Source: War speeches
“When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.”
“When Dani was about 1,000 feet above the ground, her direction changed from vertical to horizontal. She sped east at high speed. She estimated her speed to be many hundreds of kilometers per hour. As she thought about it, if she was going to make this trip in one hour, her speed would have to be about the speed of a jet airline. Yet she felt no wind, nor cold, whatsoever.”
Source: Time Chain
“When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.”
“When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration. When I was chair, I also spent half of my time on research: every other minute.”
“When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.”
Source: The Falconer: Book One of the Falconer Trilogy
“When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.”
Source: Essays
“When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.”
“When darkness becomes tradition, someone must rise as the destroyer of that tradition.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“When darkness comes your way, remember that God created the mountains and the valleys. He can never leave you in the abyss.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“When darkness emerges, the universe appears in the sky! Remember, darkness has gifts!”
“When darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A chain of voices opens up.
Let wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s. Shhh" -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)”
“When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.”
“When darkness sucks you in,
The silence will have a short stay.
Because the illuminating soul will glow again,
To celebrate the life that never ends.”
Source: Songs of the Rooks
“When Darkness surrounds you, look for the stars. When Jealousy whispers, kill it with laughter. When Hate hurts you, love with all your strength.”
“When darkness threatens to shut out the Light, ranges of emotions are the waves I surf at night. “Triumphing over Trauma” as my battle cry. Accepting this truth becomes my only guide.”
Source: My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth