W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When people try to come back into my life after doing me wrong... Sorry, I can't because I already told my mom what you did...”
“When people try to discredit you just remember who you are and whose you are. Raise your head high and keep grinding.”
“When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.”
“When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.”
“When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.”
“When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.”
“When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.”
“When people try to take your culture away from you, your essence of your culture becomes stronger. It's like even in Africa. When you see African-Americans, they're stronger because of what they've gone through. It's even subliminal; I think it becomes in their genes.”
“When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.”
“When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When people unite in prayer, they nullify the power of the weapons aimed at them.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.”
“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”
“When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.”
“When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.”
“When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.”
“When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.”
Source: The Mantram Handbook
“When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't know how you scared me!' These people are grown up. They say, 'When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep at night.' Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby.”
“When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.”
“When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."”
“When people want me to sign records they usually always have Vivadixie[submarinetransmissions], and I think that's a lot of people's favorite record. And that was sort of when I was just learning what I was doing.”
“When people want success but visualize failure, they attract failure because they don’t know about the power of repetition/visualization.”
Source: Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”
“When people want to be reimbursed for their pain they seldom are.”
Source: The Passenger
“When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.”
“When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.”
“When People Want To Impress Someone By Not Being Themselves It Wont Work, because You Have To Be You, Everyone Else Is Taken”
“When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.”
“When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.”
“When people want to love you, let them. When people open a door like that, never close it, not even to hide.”
Source: Sometimes We Tell the Truth
“When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!”
“When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.”
“When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.”
“When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.”
Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography
“When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.”
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.”
“When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes - often, in fact - you can't make it better. I'm reminded of something my supervisor said to me when I was a student chaplain: "Don't just do something. Stand there.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.”
Source: Still Me
“When people wear our Bolivian knits and see who knitted them, they are excited because they know they are supporting this women's cause in Bolivia. And it shows you that we are all connected. It's not a machine making your clothes in a black hole somewhere. There is a human being behind it, and a community there.”
“When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.”
“When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.”
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
Source: Sea Change
“When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and techniques may have changed over time, but the fundamental ideas behind frame control have mostly remained the same.”
“When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom.”
Source: The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)
“When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
“WHEN PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AT MY BIG FAILURES, I MADE THEM THINK HOW SMALL IS THEIR SUCCESS.”
“When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.”
“When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.”
“When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.”