W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.”
“When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.”
“When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'”
“When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.”
“When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.”
“When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.”
“When people say, 'Religion is all right for some, but I am not religious, and it means nothing to me,' is it because they have not experienced the uplift that comes from sacrificing for and serving their fellowmen?”
“When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.”
“When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.”
“When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.”
“When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.”
“When people say, well, they disapprove, I'd like to know what the specifics are, because sometimes - and the president [Barack Obama] has admitted this - they may not feel like he's really explaining and understanding the emotion behind some of these fears [about Iran]. And that's a perfectly legitimate question for people to ask. But if you look at the results of where we are, I think there are some things I agree with and some things I don't agree with, and I think that's absolutely fair game.”
“When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.”
“When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.”
“When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.”
“When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.”
“When people screw up, give them a second chance.”
“When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life. Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?”
“When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.”
“When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.”
“When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.”
“When people see light of trust, respect and responsibility in you. You are successful. You are a leader.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.”
“When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.”
“When people see my images, a lot of times they will say, 'Oh my God.' Have you ever wondered what that meant? The 'oh' means it caught your attention, it makes you present, it makes you mindful. The 'my' means it connects with something deep inside your soul, it creates a gateway for your inner voice to rise up and be heard. And God, 'God' is that personal journey we all want to be on, to be inspired, to feel like we are connected to a universe that celebrates life.”
“When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.”
“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”
“When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media.”
“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.”
“When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”
“When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.”
“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
Source: Gallant
“When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.”
“When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.”
“When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.”
“When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.”
“When people see their influence in a shared vision of the future, they become owners.”
Source: Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works
“When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.”
“When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.”
“When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!"”
“When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.”
“When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.”
“When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.”
“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
“When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.”
“When people seek help but already have their own answers ready, it becomes a battle of wills. Without that openness, it's difficult to create the space for transformation.”
“When people seem angry, sometimes they are simply upset and hurting. Asking the right questions helps them to work through it.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change”