W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When people ate what Anna O'Brien baked, they smiled wider, laughed louder, and left the bakery she'd inherited with more confidence than when they arrived. Her chocolate chip cookies made Jordan Hillman propose to Julie Farmer on their fourth date. Her OREO brownies caused Roger Jackson to think he could dance the Charleston like he had in the '40's. One sip of her Saturday morning hot chocolate made everyone a good neighbor. People in town swore Anna could make anything better than the original, and they were right. It was a skill she'd been honing since she was big enough to stand on a step stool and help her grandma in the kitchen.
While most children spent their after-school time watching cartoons and their summers flying kites and playing pickup games of baseball, Anna spent almost all her free time helping at Bea's Bakery. Anna had a superior sense for knowing how to combine ingredients and flavors into delicious creations. She also had an unusually strong sense of smell, which gave her an incredible advantage for pairing ingredients in a way that enhanced the eating experience. Each treat she made engaged the eyes, the nose, the tongue, and every pleasing nerve in the body.”
Source: The Baker's Man
“When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.”
“When people become difficult to love, love them harder and pray for them even more. That's how you overcome evil with good.”
“When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.”
“When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.”
“When people become inhuman, they degrade the true value of humanity.”
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )”
“When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.”
“When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.”
“When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the things that they hate, all that does is eat away at the soul. Define the things that you believe in based upon the pursuit of the the things that you love and then that love should be able to override all those things that you hate.”
“When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.”
“When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.”
Source: 11/22/63 (Enhanced eBook): A Novel
“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.”
“When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.”
“When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.”
“When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.”
“When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest.”
“When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.”
“When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.”
Source: Garden Spells
“When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.”
“When people break through the abstractions and labels they often find themselves on the same side with their opposites, especially once the discussion gets down to the reality of where people live, work, play, and raise their families. It is precisely because people want the same basic things in life, with obvious variations, that the ruling powers have driven their divide-and-rule strategies throughout history.”
Source: Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
“When people break us and walk away, we are not left empty- handed. We are left with many gifts. We gradually start seeing the world beyond the people who broke us. We start turning inward for the things we used to turn outward for. We start relying on ourselves—trusting and befriending our own spirit. We start taking comfort in solitude, becoming more in tune with the life we want to draw our breaths from. We start learning who to trust and who not to trust, who to let in and who to keep at a distance. When people break us and walk away, it aches—it feels like a part of us has fled with them. But remember—growth and greatness steps forward in our lives when people step back. Every heartbreak clears our path for a stronger tie with ourselves, and this is a gift.”
Source: Not Broken, Becoming.: Moving from Self-Sabotage to Self-Love.
“When people bully me, my teachers would try to make me think I am imagining things, or they would say, “They did not mean it that way.” I always wondered who I was supposed to talk to when I was in a situation like this. Unfortunately, this is the start of my morning most of the time, Monday through Friday.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.”
“When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.”
Source: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)
“When people bury you in the sand, what they fail to realize is that the tides come in slowly but surely. When the tides come in slowly, start wiggling your way out, so by the time the huge tides arrive, you are already out and dusting the sand off. They never take the time to look back to see how you do it, they just think you drown. When they wonder why and how you made it, it’s because they made you stronger. They also don’t realize—there’s always a solution to a problem.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state … Well this - isn’t a state. This is a feeling. I feel it all over. In my arms and legs … All over. My head, throat, butt. In my stomach. It’s all over everywhere. I don’t know what to call it. It’s like I can’t get enough outside it to call it anything. It’s like horror more than sadness. It’s more like horror. It’s like something horrible is about to happen, the most horrible thing you imagine – no, worse than you can imagine because there’s the feeling that there’s something you have to do right away to stop it but you don’t know what it is you have to do, and then it’s happening, too, the whole horrible time, it’s about to happen and also it’s happening, all at the same time. … Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. … That’s the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh-sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It’s like what’s the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.”
“When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.”
“When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.”
“When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.”
“When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.”
“When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.”
“When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.”
“When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.”
“When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.”
“When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.”
“When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.”
“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.”
“When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.”
“When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.”
“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are immediately tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become so slanted — that justice just slips off.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.”
“When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.”
Source: To Have Or To Be?
“When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.”
“When people can't cope with who you've become, they will try to remind you of who you once were.”
“When people can't give anything and are only there for themselves, why should others use their time and energy to get involved? There's no benefit.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact