W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.”
“When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.”
“When Mohamed Ali started calling himself, "I'm the Greatest", he wasn't actually the greatest. This means that you don't need to be successful before you can talk about success or you don't need to be wealthy before you can talk about wealth creation.
Saying positive things on your dreams is the first step of experiencing success in real life.”
“When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book so the pages all stuck together, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle didn't say, "Such a careless little girl can never ever look at the colored pictures in my dictionary again." Nor did she say, "You must never look at books when you are eating." She said, "Let's see, I think we can steam those pages apart, and then we can wipe the stickiness off with a little soap and water, like this-now see, it's just as good as new. There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”
Source: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
“When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children”
“When mom died, my old roommate, Jimmy, said that in an alternate dimension, an alternate me might have a worse life.”
“Now that's comforting,” said Murphy.”
Source: The Hypothesis
“When Mom spoke again, my pounding heart came to a full stop. 'You remember that Emily Dickinson poem? Ethan's favorite?”
Source: Tattoo Atlas
“When moments to remember happen, you have to pause a second to appreciate them. Otherwise none of this is worth it. And getting married to you is definitely a moment to remember.”
“When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.”
“When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!”
“When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.”
“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.”
“When money can't bargain the heart of someone who doesn't love, that's where people will think what is the value of LOVE”
Source: Saga Moon Poem
“When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.”
“When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.”
“When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“When money follows results - we will get more results for our money”
“When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.”
“When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.”
“When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.”
“When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.”
“When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.”
Source: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
“When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.”
“When money is not involved in the affairs of mankind, love, peace, and unity prevailed, but ever since poverty is seen as the absence of money, self-conceit has become the yardstick for success.”
Source: Thriving Beyond Schooling: A Guide to What Significance Demands
“When money is once parted with, it can never return.”
“When money is pooled together, it has a greater impact. A million dollars has more impact than one hundred thousand dollars. One hundred ETH has more impact than ten ETH. The more money, the greater the impact.”
“When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.”
“When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.”
“When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.”
“When money talks, there are few interruptions.”
“When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.”
“When money will lose its value, it will be easy to lend.”
“When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”
Source: The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman
“When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.”
“When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.”
Source: Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but that of the ego only.”
“When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight
There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight
Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin'
I think I'm gonna keep em”
“When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“When morality stops you from doing something wrong, you feel ashamed and weak. Shame works like a nutrient for the demons lurking in your mind. It makes them stronger and stronger.
When your own inner voice stops you from doing a wrong, you feel good and strong. Demons become weaker and weaker. You have to set aside the heap of morals to find the inner voice buried underneath.”
“When morals and values are absent, civilizations fall and collapse.”
“When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.”
“When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.”
“When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.”
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
“When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.”
“When more is required of you than you are capable of, increase your capabilities.”
“When more love and less hate becomes your mantra, it will put you on a path to respecting diversity, accepting others, being a light, and making a real difference in our society.”