W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.”
“When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.”
“When one person does something wrong, it's his mistake. If more than one person makes the same mistake, there is something wrong with the organizational culture.”
Source: Quantraz
“When one person is enslaved, we’re all enslaved.”
“When one person is having a low energy day, the other can step it up. There's a collective amount of energy, and we're each on different levels each day.”
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
Source: Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
“When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.”
“When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.”
Source: Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50
“When one person mentors, two lives are changed.”
“When one person’s worldview differs from the worldview of another person, everything is fine until the two people realize that they aren’t seeing eye to eye. Each thinker will regard anything that clashes with his or her worldview to be insane and in conflict with reality.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
“When one person succeeds, we win as a group of people. Support others dreams so we can all win.”
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!”
“When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport.”
“When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.”
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has engendered, and the extraordinarily effective teleonomic performances of living beings from bacteria to man, one may well find oneself beginning to doubt again whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at random. [Nevertheless,] a detailed review of the accumulated modern evidence [shows] that this conception alone is compatible with the facts.”
Source: Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
“When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“When one prays to an image of Lord Krishna, it reaches the 'relative'. If one bows down here (at the lotus feet of the Gnani Purush), then it reaches one's own Self (Atma) directly. This is because the vitaraag One (One free from all attachment and abhorrence) does not accept it, does He? It is always such that, wherever there is darshan of both the 'relative' and the 'real', there indeed lies liberation (moksha).”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.”
“When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.”
“When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.”
“When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.”
“When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.”
“When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.”
“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.”
Source: The Discovery of Being
“When one reads and understands too; however, it executes nothing, if one fails to act upon it.”
“When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.”
Source: Four Novels by James Joyce
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
“When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.”
“When one realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“When one realizes that, 'The Soul is a non-doer,' then one is considered as having attained the right belief of 'I am pure Soul' (samkit).”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?”
Source: The Bookseller's Tale
“When one really loves, one can never be hurt.”
“When one recollects their childhood memories, either there's a tickle in their funny bone or tears trickle down their face.”
“When one reduces the dimensions of the divine revelation concerning mankind, one thereby excludes the possibility of attaining true repentance. If men regard themselves only as weak beings, they permit and condone a multitude of transgressions. Because they are thinking of themselves as inferior to Christ, people then refuse- and let this not appear a strange exaggeration- to follow Him truly to Golgotha. To abase in our consciousness our Creator's plan for mankind is not a proof of humility, but an error and even a great sin. We must have the courage to approach the content of divine revelation 'with face uncovered', and 'beholding the glory of the Lord', be 'changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord' [2 Cor. 3:18]”
Source: Truth and Life
“When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.”
“When one rotten apple is exposed to ones that are not, it will cause
the fruit to ripen faster and eventually rot. This is because as apples ripen,
they give off a hormone in a gaseous form called ethylene which is a
catalyst for ripening fruit. So too, life, when you are surrounded by people
who have a bad influence on you, their negative energy will sooner or later affect you.”
Source: A Missing Drop: Free Your Mind From Conditioning And Reconnect To Your Truest Self
“When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner”
“When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.”
“when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.”
Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope
“When one’s deportment has mistreated and harmed you, disappearing from their life does not require an explanation; they already know the reason for your absence.”
“When one's hand can reach across the tides of time, it is their warmth that we truly touch.”
“When one's life has been shattered into a million pieces, most set out to pick up the pieces & rebuild. Others look at those broken pieces & decide this is their opportunity to start anew, the bigger picture comes into view. They see more, & want better so they leave those pieces scattered as a memorial to who they used to be!”
“When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“When one says, ‘my opinion’, it creates a veil. Due to the veils of his opinions, one does not understand the opinions of other people, and so there he keeps on talking ill things only.”
Source: Life Without Conflict