W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”
“When hiring, we look at a variety of factors, including education, experience, and skills. The biggest factor by far, though, is a candidate’s ability to fit in with our existing culture. Some might say this is why we seem to only hire the same type of people, but who knows?”
Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
“When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.”
“When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.”
“When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.”
“When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.”
“When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.”
“When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow." From The Bow of Destiny”
“When his eyes find mine, everything I’ve been fighting against falls away.”
Source: Love Story
“when his eyes lock with mine, I wonder why I ever bother looking at anyone else.”
Source: Powerless
“When his family is facing sickness, he is there. When they are basking in happiness, he is there. It does not matter what happens. He always sticks with them.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“When his fingers stroke to settle at the back of my neck, and his other hand lands on my hip, I sway toward him. But when he ducks his head, intent on my lips, I speak. “I love the way you kiss me.”
He pauses, eyes flicking between mine.
I swallow loudly. “I’ve never been kissed like that.”
His laugh is so quiet; a short exhalation from his nose.
“I never knew I could kiss like that.”
Source: Say It's Mine
“When his fingers touched the bread during the inspection of his duffel bag, and he inhaled its warm rye scent, Peeter could no longer restrain himself. He broke off a small piece, placed it in his mouth, and chewed for a long time, trying – if only briefly – to deceive the constant hunger. For a moment, it worked: he swallowed the paste-like pap, felt a rush of euphoria, and quietly fell asleep.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: During prisoner transports to the Gulag, hunger was constant. Even a single bite of bread could bring brief relief – and an almost euphoric sense of escape from terrible reality.”
Source: Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
“When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.”
“When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.”
Source: Glass Sword
“When his flesh is weak, he does not hesitate to go on his knees because he knows on his knees he can overcome tribulations. This is a powerful man who cannot let the enemy win. He remains resolute and unyielding. His knees bear the weight of battles unseen. When the enemy threatens him with defeat, he kneels, not in defeat but out of defiance and reliance on the Trinity.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church was added fresh, green hope, the lush scent of flowers in winter, and candle flame that cast its flickering shadows over the congregation like a shawl.”
Source: These High, Green Hills
“When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.”
Source: Tinkers
“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”
Source: Candide
“When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.”
“When His Holy Spirit comes into your life, He gives you strength to stand up for the truths in His Word.”
Source: Free
“When his household is facing hunger, he does not sit and do nothing about it. He constantly reminds himself that he should be the provider, regardless of the circumstances.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”
“When his lips find mine, they’re soft and tentative, so I force my tongue into his mouth to harden the kiss, but he groans and pulls away.”
Source: Fake Out
“When his lips landed to hers, his hand raced over the curves of her body. Jocelyn whimpered to his searing lips. His tongue plunged over her lips. Feeling his heat blast into her. Her tongue swirled, and laced to his as he pulled her aching frame into him. Her breasts mashed to his thick chest. Nipple burst into shards of stones. The fingers that had held his neck, curled into his dark hair. She bordered on being out of control.
Igider's, kiss was magnetic to her darkest layers of passion. Tonight, she didn't want to be beaten, spanked or bound. She wanted to be made love to you. To be treated like a woman that mattered, not a toy. For once, she wanted to feel the deepest pleasure of a man and woman without all the pain. Yes, he could flog her senseless but this time it was going to be different. Jocelyn knew this wasn't love, but her mind and soul craved the need to be loved, even if it was carnal.
Frozen Sin coming December 28th”
“When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.”
“When his mentor spoke of the old days, the knights were heroes, not outlaws, and knowing right from wrong, good from evil seemed as natural as breathing. Nowadays, the once clear waters of morality had grown brackish. The country was fractured, one man’s admiration was liable to garner you another man’s animosity.”
Source: Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks
“When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.”
“When his patients could not afford to pay (for dental services), Dad never denied them. He would discount the cost or set up a payment plan. New York had a lot of talented, starving artists. Most of the artwork in our home Dad traded for crowns and bridges. The barter system worked, just as it had before the money system took over. Now, several of the lovely paintings grace our home in Hawaii. These works of art remind me of my dad’s generosity and his admiration for other people’s gifts. I have passed these lessons of compassion on to my son and eventually will pass on the paintings.”
Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur
“When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter”
“When his pointer finger trailed toward my belly button, I jumped and stepped back. I was so close to the bed that my legs folded and I ended up falling onto the mattress. My shoulder screamed in protest, and I bit down on my lip to keep from crying out.
“I—uh…” he said, stumbling over his words, his cheeks turning slightly pink.
I pushed up onto one elbow. “Sorry for feeling me up?” I finished for him.
He grinned. “That wasn’t feeling you up. When I feel you up, you’ll know it.”
Source: Torch
“When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it”
“When his shirt is tugged up halfway up his torso to his chest, Jimmy follows the lead by lifting off of me to allow the shirt over his head and off his arms, where it's then flung away, never to be heard from again, and he's on my lips once more.
But shirtless now.
Good Lord, Jimmy, and it ain't even my birthday.”
Source: Heteroflexible
“When his spirited guests showed up, he'd be their gracious host, their fearless leader. Their P.T. Barnum, full coat and tails and freaky pyrotechnics. Their Virgil, a voice of calm as they navigated the unknowable. Their Pac-Man, drawing them stealthily out of the maze with delicious fruits and no whammies. He'd be the maker of their dreams, the miner of their memories, the mouthpiece for their taste buds and tongues and every gut feeling.
Their Chef d'Esprit.”
Source: Aftertaste
“When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“When his voice fades in a crowd that doesn’t care, he realizes that loneliness can be more peaceful than being ignored.”
“When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.”
“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.”
Source: Pretty Monsters: Stories
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.”
“When historians in the future ask a really old version of me about this pandemic, I’m gonna tell them that Trump’s MAGA minions were the only ones who had no idea what was happening, while the rest of America stared into the abyss.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.”
Source: The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction
“When history calls, history calls.”
“When history disappears, you disappear.”
“When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.”
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
“When History is written it will be stated that the the Pakistani intelligence agency I.S.I. defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the help of America. Then there will be another sentence: The I.S.I., with the help of America, defeated America.” The ex-head of ISI Hamid Gul declared in public.”
Source: Mass Insanity
“When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.”
“When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.”
“When history repeats itself, historians repeat themselves.”
“When history searches and reaches you, it's not knowledge, it's information and you don't know if it is fabricated, corrupt, a lie or propaganda.
When you search for history and reach out for history, you become a knowledgeable and sensible person.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"