W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878”
Source: A Vision of Lucy
“When positivity is the key
You'll find peace in a cup of tea”
Source: Fireclay
“When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.”
“When possible, try to reward a child's good behavior, instead of punishing their bad behavior. Perhaps give them surprise IOUs for an 'extra 15 minutes' to stay up late or enjoy an activity for good behavior. Maybe they were being kind or helped without being asked. Important to acknowledge & reinforce the standards. Encouragement & guidance being the goals.”
“When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.”
“When post-M&A integration realities are not holistically planned for pre-M&A integration, the resulting risk is that the markets' initial valuation of the new entity may far exceed the adjusted valuation of the new entity a few years post-integration. And we all know what that means for shareholders.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“when potential greatness meets with actual greatness, the future is inspired with hope.”
“When poverty comes, wealth looks back at you. Will you seek it again?”
“When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.”
“When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?”
Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
“When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.”
Source: The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales
“When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.”
“When power becomes purpose, the soul begins to vanish.”
Source: The Balance of Tora: A Battle Between Light and Darkness
“When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled.”
Source: Growing Up American
“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses”
“When Power Gives Power, Then there's No Power To Take That Power.”
“When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.”
“When power is handed to ego, even the loyal become collateral damage.”
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
“When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path”
“When power runs out of arguments, it finishes justice quietly, from behind.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.”
“When practicing frame control, one's body language, which subtly reflects one's psychological response throughout a
discussion, can have a significant influence on oneself.”
“When practicing the art of not explaining yourself, you may need to verbally tell others you will not explain yourself. You mustn't explain why.”
“When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.”
“When prayer flags flutter and the prayers inscribed on them blend into the wind, the surroundings sing. Hope soars, compassion spills. May those feelings guide us all through the day.”
“When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
Source: Prayer
“When prayer is rendered with love and affection for the Master, it becomes a great environment to thrive in.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”
Source: Living Without Fear
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”
Source: Seeker After Truth
“When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.”
Source: Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation
“When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear.”
“When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.”
“When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.”
“When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.”
“When precision reigns, human law reigns, God's law reigns, the law of the universe reigns---everything reigns that should. The timetable is greater than the Gospels, greater than Homer, greater than all of Kant. The timetable is the most perfect manifestation of the human intellect. Mrs. Helena, I'll pour myself another.”
Source: R.U.R.
“When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.”
“When Predator sailed into war, she sang.
The rapid winds and rising shrieks suddenly blended into a single harmonious tone. Lines in the rigging and the yards and the masts themselves quivered in time, and began giving off their own notes of music, in harmony with one another. As the speed increased, the chord rose and rose, and built and built, until it reached a crescendo of pure, eerie, inhuman fury.
Grimm felt the music rise around him, felt the ship straining eagerly to her task, and his own heart raced in fierce exultation in time with her. Every line of the ship, every smudge upon her decks, every stain upon the leathers of his aeronauts leapt into his mind in vibrant detail. He could feel the ship's motion, forward and down, could feel the wind of her passage, could feel the rising terror of his crew. One of the men screamed--one of them always did--and then the entire crew joined in with Predator, shrieking their battle cries together with their ship's. The ship would not fail them--Grimm knew it; he felt it, the way he could feel sunlight on his face or the rake of wind in his hair.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.”
“When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.”
“When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So you have to learn how to do it quickly. And the longer you have a role, that it lives in your imagination, the more you're going to be able to contribute when you get on set. Because it's really about your subconscious having time to sit with the part, so you're out doing something and then something occurs to you, you know?”
“When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many who saw the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia: their eyes objectively see, but they are not aware of it and are blind because they believe they can’t see. One specialist told me that among modern Western people, ’metaphorical’ symptoms such as Fredy or those Cambodians evince are much rarer now than earlier in the twentieth century or before. Nowadays most people are better equipped by education to verbalise their neuroses, and have lots of jargon in which to do so. For most of the dissociative dimension, I could draw on things I knew from within myself.”
Source: Fredy Neptune
“When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with the story line and the character's personality; they have to be matched.”
“When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.”
“When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.”
Source: Anatomy of a Boyfriend
“When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“When presenting ideas, help decision makers get past their myopia. It's easy for clients to say no to an idea right in front of them. But if they can visualize your idea's future value, they'll have an easier time saying yes.”