W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.”
“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.”
“When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“When eating disordered symptoms arise in men, Schoen (ibid.) writes, they may signal difficulty integrating dependency needs into a masculine identification. Sands (2003) notes that men are more likely to express disavowed needs and wants through projections onto others - witness the preponderance of compulsive sexual behaviors in men - whereas women are more likely to use their own bodies to contain disavowed desires.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.”
“When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.”
“When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.”
“When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are always two sides to the balance sheet. And one party’s money or savings is another party”
“When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.”
“When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and taunted him to prove his bulb could really work. Despite the naysayers, Edison pushed on, demonstrating the importance of sticking with his "crazy" idea which would go on to turn him into one of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The key here is to fan the foolish fire no matter what!”
“When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.”
Source: Horse Sense for People: Using the Gentle Wisdom of the Join-up Technique to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Work
“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”
“When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.”
Source: Designing the Future
“When education is free and available instantaneously, innovation comes from valuable transformational relationships, not transactions.”
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”
“When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it’s harder than ever to use those experiences to grow. But growing up, I have argued, has been dogged by dilemma ever since it was a real option. As Enlightenment philosophers knew, it’s a process that is as socially determined as it is profoundly individual.”
Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.”
“When Edward told me about the Night of the Following, the trees of Hampstead wore only the merest of buds. The branches were all but bare and the sky was low and grey; yet, once the tale was told, the summer of Birchwood Manor was already upon us.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.”
“When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.”
“When Ego Goes Up...Destruction Becomes Inevitable!”
Source: My Heritage
“When ego, unopposed, assumes its throne,
The world, in fragments, reaps the seeds it’s sown.
A kaleidoscope of discord and divide,
Where separate streams in ceaseless turmoil bide.
Through ego’s lens, reality transforms,
A battleground where rampant desire storms.
A sphere of strife, of victory and loss,
Where fortunes shift as dice of fate are tossed.
In ego’s solitary, narrow view,
The world is painted in a hue so skewed.
Confined by fears, by selfish dreams confined,
Its canvas bears the limits of the mind.
Thus, perception, in its manifold grace,
Reflects the light of ego and soul’s face.
In balance, may the truest sight be found,
Where essence and ego in harmony abound.
In the crucible where essence blends with sight,
A wondrous transformation takes its flight.
Where once division’s shadow coldly lay,
Interconnection’s dawn breaks forth in day.
What opposition’s harsh gaze once discerned,
To harmonies of concord is now turned.
The essence, with its ancient wisdom’s glow,
Unveils the unity that lies below.
Each leaf and stone, each soul that wanders free,
A note within reality’s grand symphony.
Essential, bound within the vast expanse,
In life’s intricate, cosmic dance.
This alchemical shift in vision’s sphere,
Brings forth changes profound, both far and near.
Challenges, once daunting, now unfold,
As growth’s opportunities, bright and bold.
Foes, once clad in enmity’s harsh guise,
Transform to teachers, wise beneath the skies.
Each joy, each pain, in life’s intricate weave,
Threads of our evolution, we perceive.
No longer a stage for vain rivalry’s play,
But a landscape where learning’s blossoms sway.
Growth and learning, in rich abundance, thrive,
In this new world where our spirits come alive.
Where once the ego’s voice, in solo strain,
Ruled with iron will, in self’s domain,
Now in harmony with the soul’s sweet song,
It finds a place where it truly belongs.
No longer master, but a partner kind,
Guiding through life with a humble mind.
It learns compassion’s tongue, intuition hears,
Acts with mindfulness, as purpose nears.
In perception’s alchemy, a journey grand,
From fractured states to unity’s soft hand,
From discord’s harsh cacophony to peace,
A path that leads where true essences release.
This sacred path, evolving as it weaves,
Into our nature’s heart, where spirit cleaves.
The veil of separation gently falls,
As interconnectedness softly calls.
Upon this path, with every step we tread,
Our world transforms, new visions in its stead.
The mundane now with sacredness imbues,
The ordinary in extraordinary hues.
Each day becomes a picture, rich and vast,
For deepest truths, in vibrant colors cast.
Through alchemy of sight, our roles transcend,
Not mere observers, but creators bend.
In world’s unfolding tale, we play our part,
Co-architects, with collective heart.
A reality, where highest potentials shine,
In this, your design, our spirits intertwine.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.”
“When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.”
“When Einstein calls you the most significant and creative woman in the history of mathematics, you can probably call it a day and go home. Unless you're Emmy Noether, whose pursuit of game-changing innovation in the field of numbers was, in a word, tenacious.”
Source: Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
“When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.”
“When either grace is turned into painted, but rotten nature, as Arminians do, or into wantonness, as others do, the error to me is of a far other and higher elevation, than opinions touching church government. Tenacious adhering to Antinomian errors, with an obstinate and final persistence in them, both as touching faith to, and suitable practice of them, I shall think, cannot be fathered upon any of the regenerated; for it is an opinion not in the margin and borders, but in the page and body, and too near the centre and vital parts of the gospel.”
Source: The Trial and Triumph of Faith
“When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.”
“When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom”
“When electing to put down the bag of chips in favor of a serving of vegetables, we are exercising a portion of our available willpower.”
“When electricity runs in a wire, it keeps the wire warm. Similarly, when the 'Self' or soul resides in the human body, the body retains a specific temperature. Death makes the body cool. As electricity runs machines, in the same way, our body is also a system run by the 'Self.”
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”
“When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.”
“When Elly had first come to the fortress the seneschal had told her she would become lost, reassuring her that there was no shame in having someone point the way. After all, she had informed her, the fortress had been visited by several delegations from human lands, and all of them had been hopeless at navigating its courtyards and balconies. Everyone understood that a half-elf would need additional help; they all expected her to require assistance.
At that moment, Elly had sworn to herself she would never, ever ask for directions.”
Source: Song of the Wild Knight – Part One: Song of the Squire
“When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.”
“When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with the movie. That was great, because I love traveling.”
“When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.”
“When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.”
“When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.”
“When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.”
“When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.”
Source: Killosophy
“When Emerson took over the Charlesgate in 1981, the building came with several rent-controlled tenants the college had been powerless to evict. At least one of them still lived in the building, and she was a legendary presence on the third floor, regarded by some as yet another supernatural manifestation.”
Source: Charlesgate Confidential
“When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.”
“When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven editions of a print run of about 400. So the first print run out of Boston for a first book of poems was 400 for a country that had fifty million people in it. Now a first print run for a first book is maybe 2,000? So that's a five-time increase in the expectation of readership. Probably the audience is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1900, if you just took that one example.”
“When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.”
“When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.”