W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.”
“When someone is only taught by demonstration, how to be weak in life, they will usually hate you for becoming the strong one.”
“When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.”
“When someone is rude to you, don't stoop to their level, stay calm and walk away with your head held high.”
“When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road.”
“When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.”
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
Source: Siddhartha
“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
“When someone is sleep-Tweeting the sexual thoughts you’re currently having about them while you’re having sex with someone else, miles away, it’s kind of too late.”
Source: Stuff
“When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?”
“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.”
“When someone is the song to your heart's rhythm, dance with them through the swings of life.”
“When someone is tired, their judgment can be impaired. When they are dragging, it is hard for them to float above a problem and picture themselves and the problem in another place and time, so I gave them another directive: sleep. When you sleep, your brain is actually engaged in the neurochemical process of judgment. It is mapping connections and finding meaning among all the data you took in during the day. Tired people tend not to have the best judgment.”
Source: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .”
Source: The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
“When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.”
Source: Scholastic Newbery Collection
“When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.”
Source: Immortality
“When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.”
“When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.”
“When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.”
“When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
My other cries and cries and cries
when I put on a cocktail dress.”
“When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.”
“When Someone Leaves
They do not take your breath or still your heart,
but piece by piece, you crumble into dust.
The scent they wore no longer haunts the air,
and something in you wilts, a quiet death.
You watch the space where once they used to stand,
the ghost of motion lingers in the dark.
The rustle of their clothes is lost to time,
a whisper swallowed whole by memory.
You call for them in dreams, in restless nights,
but only echoes answer in the void.
And bit by bit, the world is drained of light—
until there’s nothing left but hollow space,
a silence vast enough to swallow stars.
I wonder if that’s how it truly feels,
to miss someone so bad it cuts like steel,
a dagger twisting deep inside the gut,
each thought of them a wound that will not heal.”
“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?”
Source: Bridget Jones’s Diary
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”
“When someone lets you down or chooses to disagree with you, your anger, your grief, arises from their behavior. Or so you believe. But if you observe your thoughts closely, you will find that it is your mind that rushes off immediately to demand: “How dare they treat me like this?” So, essentially, it is your expectation of that person, that they must behave in certain way that is causing you agony. Just drop that expectation. And you will not have any suffering on account of anyone or their actions anymore. Herein lies the secret to remaining unmoved, detached and dispassionate about what others are saying or doing to you. This is the way you protect your inner peace and happiness.”
“When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.”
“When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.”
“When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.”
“When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you're in good hands. You know it's going to be slick, and it's going to be intelligent, and it's going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.”
“When someone listens to his heart. Than he Uses a big law of success.”
“When someone loves you for who you are (completely) without judgment, impossible conditions or pretense...your heart awakens, your soul comes alive, your senses are stimulated and you know true happiness.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.”
Source: Forever Rich
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
Source: The Intern
“When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.”
Source: Always With You
“When someone loves you they don't have to say it; you can tell by the way they treat you.”
“When someone loves you, they look for reasons to stay rather than excuses to leave.”
“When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.”
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan
“When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook
“When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!”
“When someone makes you a priority it is Great!
When you make yourself a priority it is Brilliant!~”
“When someone makes you feel inferior, menial, or less of a person; know that their Ego is larger than their heart!”
“When someone makes you laugh, keeps you laughing so hard that your stomach feels like you have been doing crunches! THAT! I love that!”
“When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“When someone needs help, you help. Right?”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel