W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.”
“When opposition presses (OPPRESSION) one has to persevere, press, push back but never allow yourself to be pressed like a grape unless the juice is your victory wine.”
“When oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.”
Source: Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
“When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!”
“When Oprah Winfrey wears something, it works out, too. But if someone's having "a moment," that always helps.”
“When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.”
“When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.”
“When or if I get my own Wikipedia page, I would like to be called or mentioned as Polymath.”
“When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.”
“When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.”
“When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.”
Source: The Business of Life
“When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.”
“When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields.”
“When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.”
“When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.”
“When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.”
“When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.”
“When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.”
“When organizations invest in their people across all dimensions of their lives, individuals respond by bringing all their multidimensional energy to work every day”
Source: Quantraz
“When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.”
“When ornaments betray a beauty, she is old.”
Source: Plotless
“When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.”
“When OSHA fails, social media is the backup plan!”
“When OSHA fails, social media prevails!”
“When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.”
“When other countries run sustained trade deficits, they must finance these by selling off domestic assets or running into debt — debt which they actually are obliged to pay. It seems that only the Americans are so bold as to say “Screw the world. We’re going to do whatever we want.” Other countries simply cannot afford the chaos from which the U.S. economy is positioned to withstand as a result of the fact that foreign trade plays a smaller role in its economy than in those of nearly all other nations in today’s interdependent world.
Using debtor leverage to set the terms on which it will refrain from causing monetary chaos, America has turned seeming financial weakness into strength. U.S. Government debt has reached so large a magnitude that any attempt to replace it will entail an interregnum of financial chaos and political instability. American diplomats have learned that they are well positioned to come out on top in such grab-bags.”
Source: The Bubble and Beyond
“When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.”
“When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.”
“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”
Source: Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
“When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.”
“When other people are worried about the future, but you're at peace because you learned to live in the present.”
“When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.”
Source: The Last Resort
“When other people parted
We clung to each other fast
We knew our love was special
We struggled to make it last”
Source: A Woman's Place: The Complete Poetry Collection of Margaret Oliver
“When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.”
“When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight back with.”
Source: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
“When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”
“When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.”
“When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.”
“When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
“When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.”
“When others fail to celebrate you, celebrate your own achievements.”
“When others focus on what your child cannot do, see it as an opportunity to focus on who God is and what he can do through you and your child. Sometimes inability is the vehicle for experiencing the blessing of God's powerful presence and provision.”
Source: Bible Promises for Parents of Children with Special Needs
“When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"”
“When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.”
“When others' obsessions are not ours, we are sad for them, and we talk of how empty their lives will be if they don't achieve their empty goal: the gymnastics prize, the firm partnership. But there is a monomania in which it is the focus, the sense of transport, that is the real pleasure.”
Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain