W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“when someone doesn’t feel valued or heard, their desire to participate in a job or relationship disappears.”
Source: 2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail
“When someone doesn't have what you have, their heart fills with admiration and head with envy. Their heart wants them to become closer to you and their head wants them to become like you.”
“When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.”
Source: Belief Is The New Black: Unlock Your True Potential By Discovering The Power Of Belief
“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“When someone else accepts you, that's when you begin to see yourself - through THEIR eyes - and you begin to realize that there may actually be many qualities to like about yourself.”
“When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.”
“When someone else puts you in their mess, you do not know how to clean up the mess they’ve made. You do not know how to start over because you do not know where to begin. I look at it this way; it is like telling a dead person he/she can start over. How so, when that person’s life no longer exists?”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“When someone else's happiness becomes the prerequisite of your happiness, you know that you are in love.”
“when someone else shows or tries to show an overly positive image of himself or herself to them, people generally tend to dissociate. They start thinking of the other person as someone different, someone they don’t actually know and can never completely trust.”
“When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.”
“When someone engages in a pleasurable activity like gambling, their brain releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter that processes rewards. Dopamine is what makes these activities feel pleasurable. Psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains that pleasure and pain act on an equilibrium, encouraging limits on the activity in question, no matter how enjoyable. Over time, repeated exposure to pleasure means the brain requires more of that activity—gambling with more money, for example—to receive the same amount of dopamine. Once someone has built up a tolerance, they are susceptible to addiction and, with their equilibrium imbalanced in favor of pain, they will need ever-increasing amounts to experience even a modicum of pleasure—or simply a break from pain.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care.”
“When someone exits your life, you don't die instantly; instead, you begin to perish in pieces.
You no longer catch the scent they wore, and a part of you fades away.
You miss witnessing them change their clothes, another fragment of yourself diminishes, and you yearn for the familiar whispers in those intimate moments, yet all that fills the silence are echoes of your dreams, and so it continues.
Until eventually, you feel nothing, see nothing—just an overwhelming emptiness and a deafening silence”
“When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.”
“When someone falls so low and doesn't learn anything, deserves the punishment that has befallen on him. All leaves must fall from the tree and rot in the ground, to make room for the new ones.
So, once again i ask you. Why do you want to save these people and this corrupted place?”
Source: Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo
“When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.”
“When someone feels down, give them support, encouragement, and strength. Don't let them feel alone. As humans, we should care for each other, and support each other, not judging”
“When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.”
“When someone genuinely laughs with you, it’s proof that you share a certain internal space. And that’s not so lonely after all.”
“When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.”
“When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?”
“When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.”
“When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.”
Source: The Fiend
“When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."”
“When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.”
“When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.”
“When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.”
“When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.”
“When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.”
“When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.”
“When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.”
“When someone harasses me, I take a look at the situation and ask the question: What motivated them? When I get the answer I report it to the police.”
“When someone harms our daughter or sister or wife, our rage and courage practically turn infinite and we do not even imagine of stopping until the perpetrators are brought to justice, yet when mindless barbarians keep raping the very fabric of humanity in the name of race, religion and nation, we somehow manage to accept it as the norm. What a hypocrisy! What a bunch of losers we are! Okay, be a loser - live as a loser - crawl through the several decades of your life as a loser - but don't you dare to boast about being human. Because if you don't have the guts and conscience to act against discrimination, segregation and bigotry, then you don't deserve the title of human. Losers don't make humans, just like bigots and barbarians ain't no human. If we are to look at the mirror and say out loud – yes, that’s me, a human – then we must, not should, but must, be accountable for not just our individual reality, but for our societal reality as well.”
Source: Mission Reality
“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.”
“When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.”
“When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.”
“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“When someone has broken the trust you bestowed in them, their likely to do it again. Be wary before speaking in front of them on any matter you do not want to be repeated.”
“When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.”
“When someone has endured organized or ritualized abuse, dissociation may be their only defense; sometimes even this is used against them.”
Source: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“When someone has enough money, logistics can be worked out in no time.”
Source: Evensong
“When someone has gifted you with one act of love after another, it’s only fair to ignore their bad moods and concentrate exclusively in the many things they’ve done for you. Acts and feelings should always prevail over moods and words.”
Source: The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
“When someone has the COURAGE to speak what they feel then the heart will be willing to listen and to ACCEPT that person's feelings in the expression of those feelings it may not be your TRUTH but the heart will lead you to say so and not to pass judgement on what that person is feeling.”
“When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.”
“When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.”
“When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control freak. I've always wanted something that would depict slow-moving paintings, stunning artwork that also incorporates movement. It was hard letting someone else create that vision for me, but I love it.”
“When someone has too much of a thought-out idea, that can be a big obstacle to get anywhere. Because it's like [if] you have a preconceived idea of what's going to happen in the studio in an hour's time, then you're not free anymore and you lock yourself into your own expectations. I don't think that's very creative. It doesn't work well with me.”
“When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.”
“When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.”