W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.”
“When people lack confidence, they use ignorance to stay away from their problems.”
“When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.”
“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”
“When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.”
“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.”
“When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”
“When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.”
“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”
“When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.”
“When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'”
“When people leave you during
the toughest times, you need to
remember who is on your side. God
will always be with you on your
journey to a purpose-driven life.
Pray and ask Him to remain in
charge of your life so you do not
lose sight of His divine plan.”
Source: Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes
“When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.”
Source: Ordinary Love and Good Will
“When people let you down young in life, you develop hyper-independence, meaning you struggle to ask for help.”
Source: Naked
“When people let youd own, God will pick you up.”
“When people lie to you, only to swear they never said what you know they did say, there’s no way to get along with people like that.”
Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I am doing it with a concrete footnoted historical context.”
“When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.”
“When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.”
“When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.”
“When people live in a fair, caring society, where everyone has equal access to social goods, they don’t have to spend their time worrying about how to cover their basic needs day to day – they can enjoy the art of living. And instead of feeling they are in constant competition with their neighbours, they can build bonds of social solidarity.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost”
“When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.”
Source: Torrential Love
“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.”
“When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.”
“When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.”
“When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.”
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
Source: Robert Frank
“When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make the show?" And to a certain extent, original programming for any network is a loss leader to try to get you to keep the channel on your cable package.”
“When people look at you and see that you have done something very different, very impossible, a lightning bolt strikes in their minds, and all of a sudden their 'world of possible things' explodes and expands, and their universe of thought gains new boundaries!”
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”
“When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.”
“When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.”
“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.”
“When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.”
“When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.”
“When people lost hope, they somet8mes lost their humanity too. Desperate people did desperate things, became avatars of unexpected tragedy.”
Source: The Water Knife
“When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.”
“When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.”
“When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.”
Source: Night Watch
“When people love the work they do, they bring something special and unique to the job.”
“When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.”
“When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.”
“When people maintain pin-drop silence at your life, you are almost dead and when people maintain non-stop noise in your life, you are utmost alive”
“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”
Source: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
“When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."”
“When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.”
“When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.”