W Quotes
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“When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.”
“When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met.”
Source: What Kind of Woman: Poems
“When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.”
“When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”
“When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!”
“When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one.”
“When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.”
“When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."”
“When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.”
“When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song.”
“When someone asks me, "Which grammar book should i buy?" I tell him to buy any grammar book because the rules of tense, voice etc. are same in all the books! Choosing a grammar book is not vital, practising the grammatical rules is more vital!”
“When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'”
“When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“When someone asks, "What do you do?” don't start with your occupation or family status. Instead, tell them about the "real you" with a spin.
You might say, "Back home I'm run a coffee shop, but on this trip, I'm getting in touch with the part of me who wished she'd studied archeology.”
Source: Hit The Road: A Woman's Guide to Solo Motorcycle Touring
“When someone asks you for an explanation based on science but that science has no effective transforming result, such an explanation takes the form of a rationalization. A rationalization without effective transformations is a dogma. Likewise, when religion explains you something you can't properly use that too takes the form of a body of rationalizations. And in the same manner, that story becomes your dogma. So as you see, humans are constantly corrupting the truth because of their obsession with their brain, the center of their reasons. Now the human brain in itself is a very limited machine, so these habits of humans seeking to rationalize everything, always downgrades, corrupts and stupidifies everything. You have certainly experienced that inside yourself when explaining something you know to someone who doesn't know the same, because that person interprets the encounter as a conflict between two opposing dogmas, 2 beliefs, 2 flags of ideologized rationalizations. In essence, that is how religions and science turned into absolute nonsense. When you know that something is true because you can see it but others can't see the same, even when your life has changed before their eyes, that's a truth that can't be captured by the dogmas of others. That truth can't be rationalized and for that reason is downgraded and even labeled a lie. But how can you find answers in the same system that creates problems? Any dogma and rationalization turns people apathetic and stupid. As a result, the opposite path, of seeking something of a higher nature, will change your vibration, your mind and your personality. That is in essence what it means to be free. You evolve in such a way that you become invisible to others. They can't see why, they can't explain, they can't understand you, and eventually they will tell themselves you are not real. That's the definition of a prison planet and that's exactly how you escape it. So it doesn't matter who I am or what I did or who I was. It matters only I am giving you a key to get out of this madness from which many will never escape, because they can't, they don't have the divine sparkle in their spirit. Thy are not ready. And maybe they never will be. In fact, they will tell you that you have replaced their dogma for another, just to make you doubt and return to their state. When you are explaining, you are losing time, rationalizing your answers, and conforming to the views of those who can't go beyond the common dogmas. It's a downgrading catching you through sympathy and compassion. The cruel truth is that the highest truths can't be explained. You find them not in my words but behind them.”
“When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out... and yes I'm very ticklish'.”
“When someone asks you who you’re trying to impress your answer should always be ‘myself.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”
“When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'”
“When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.”
“When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.”
Source: Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life
“When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.”
“When someone attempts to dump their garbage onto you, muster the courage to stop them right there and then, because you are not their trash can.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.”
Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher
“When someone becomes angry with you, it is not your job to make them feel better; it is their job to learn skills to hold space for that anger and make themselves feel better. It is also their responsibility to understand their anger and, if necessary, communicate with you about how you might have contributed to that emotion within them. The problem is that so many of us have been on the receiving end of trouble from people who are totally clueless about how to take ownership over their own emotions. And what happens when people don't know how to own and manage their emotions? They project their negative emotions on us and make us believe that we caused the negative emotion. They make us believe that their negative emotions are our fault and problem to fix.”
Source: Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
“When someone becomes proof that you matter, silence stops feeling like distance and starts feeling like disappearance.”
Source: The sunset is beautiful, isn’t it?
“When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.”
“When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.”
“When someone begins to care, they gesticulate divergently — by anticipating without planning, sensing without explaining — thus, developing invisible reflexes. Before one knows, things are already being done — quietly, gracefully.”
Source: YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
“When someone begins to the lose the glamour they had for us on our first meeting them, we tell ourselves that we have been deceived; that our fantasy cast a halo over them which they are unworthy to bear. It is always possible, however, that the reverse is the case: that our disappointment is due to a failure of our own sensibility which lacks the strength to maintain itself at the acuteness with which it began. People may really be what we first thought them, and what we subsequently think of as the disappointing reality may be the person obscured by the staleness of our senses.”
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”
“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
“When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“When someone breaks your trust.
They may randomly behave like they stopped trusting you, as a defense mechanism”
“When someone brings you more hurt than happiness, you're allowed to let them go. You do not have to follow them into the dark.”
“When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.”
“When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.”
“When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.”
“When someone cares for you, your pain is their pain”
Source: Between Commitment and Betrayal
“When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.”
Source: Peace flows from the sky
“When someone causes you pain, agony or frustration, an immediate response is to react, rebuke, reprimand. Don't do that. Quickly reason whether the person is ill-informed, ignorant, wanton or just plain devious. Every which way, a calm and fitting response will be to forgive that person and wish them well at all times. When you respond this way, watch how relieved and happy you actually feel!!”
“When someone challenges you, your supporters turn out.”
“When someone changes your face, it's really shocking and scary.”
“When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.”
“When someone chooses dishonor over dialogue, let them live with it.”
“When someone chooses not to understand you, despite your best efforts, you may want to examine whether they are not getting what you are saying or if they simply don’t want to understand you. If it is the latter, Life is so much simpler for both of you – there is no need to invest any more time and energy in striving for that understanding. The brutal truth that you often fail to confront is the fact that someone who is keen not to understand you, perhaps never will, no matter how hard you try!”
“When someone chooses to lift the curtain on a perceived imperfection in her story, on a circumstance or condition that traditionally might be considered to be a weakness, what she's often actually revealing is the source code for her steadiness and strength. And as we've seen plenty of times in our history, the strength of one resolute soul can become the strength of many.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.”