W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone needs something in order to feel better, that something returns her love.”
“When someone needs something in order to feel better, that something returns him love.”
“When someone new comes into your life and suddenly you feel more alive, more beautiful, more sexual, more creative, more desirable and more engaged; you feel that this new person is the key to those feelings. But actually, you have these qualities too. What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. Carl Jung explored this very well. He called it projection.”
“When someone new comes on and has their first nude scene - and even if it's not full nudity - it's always a weird, awkward setup. We have these famous merkins which are sort of toupees for your delicate areas to make it look like you're naked but cover you up a little bit. But we joke around a little bit with the newbies who are trying that stuff on for the first time.”
“When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.”
“When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.”
“When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.”
“When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.”
“When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.”
“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.”
“When someone pays you to vote for them. They are actually buying you out of power. Once they win the elections. You won't have power to do or to say anything, because you would have traded your voice, rights and power , by that time they gave you money. They can do and say as they please . You can't object. They bought that power and bought it from you. So they own you.”
“When someone picks the Gnani Purush’s [the enlightened one’s] ‘pocket’, how does the Gnani Purush’’ look at it? “Very well! This amount is now credited to my account”! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone ‘see’ this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of ‘mine and yours’? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see ‘as it is’, that is called ‘Gnan’ [Knowledge].”
“When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me”
“When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have “misplaced” their values.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“When someone plays fast and loose with rights and freedom, their place is either in the jungle or in a mental institution, not in office. Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism, these are the ultimate mental illness.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“When someone plots your downfall, hold on to God. He will carry you through it all.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.”
“When someone points out something wrong. Instead of correcting it. We are choosing to compare it with other wrong things done before to justify it. That doesn’t make it right either. Instead, we are pointing two wrongs things that had been done that needs to be corrected. If something wrong was done by someone before and they got a way with it. It doesn’t justify you to do the wrong thing to. Choose to correct your mistakes rather than comparing it to others.”
“When someone points out something wrong. Instead of correcting it. We are choosing to compare it with other wrong things done before to justify it. We seem to ignore or to forget that it doesn’t make it any right either. Instead, we are pointing two wrong things that had been done that needs to be corrected. If something wrong was done by someone before and they got away with it. It doesn’t justify you to do the wrong thing to. We have so many problems today , problematic people and systems, because instead of producing a solution. We choose to compare the problems, the pain, suffering , abuse , trauma, rape, violation, offence, assault, corruption , fraud, crime , system, and problematic people. Instead of listening, analyzing, and coming up with a solution . We don’t correct the wrong things, instead we compare them to other wrong things to make them correct. Yet we know two wrongs don’t make one right.”
“When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.”
“When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.”
“When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.”
“When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.”
Source: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
“When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.”
“When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.”
“When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.”
“When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.”
“When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.”
“When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend.
If you listen to everybody, you will be nobody.
Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.
People hate what they know but fear what they don't.
A curious mind is never bored.
Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
People believe in everything except the reality.”
“When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.”
“When someone refuses to accept a loss, they inevitably hurt themselves in the process.”
“When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it God, the universe, a higher power, karmic law, whatever. At any rate, if he feels that the universe is trying to tell him something, then he may listen. He won't listen to you or anyone else, but the universe, that's a different story.”
Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
“When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“When someone rejected you,It didn't mean she/he hated you but it mean that some thing you are deficient .”
“When someone rejects you, for whatever reason, that rejection reflects their wants, not your limitations. you are in no way defined by the rejection, or the acceptance, of anyone else. your worth depends on no one. and as hard as it can be to see it as such, there is just as big a gift in not connecting with those who don’t see your value, as there is in uniting with those who do.”
“When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.”
“When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.”
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit. That’s why you can’t save it all up like that. Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life... Is this how people lose touch? I didn’t think that could happen with sisters. Maybe with other people, but never us. Before Margot left, I knew what she was thinking without having to ask; I knew everything about her. Not anymore. I don’t know what the view looks like outside her window, or if she still wakes up early every morning to have a real breakfast or if maybe now that she’s at college she likes to go out late and sleep in late. I don’t know if she prefers Scottish boys to American boys now, or if her roommate snores. All I know is she likes her classes and she’s been to visit London once. So basically I know nothing. And so does she.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit. That’s why you can’t save it all up like that. Because by the time you finally see each other, you’re catching up only on the big things, because it’s too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life. Like a month ago when Daddy slipped on a banana peel, a literal banana peel that Kitty had dropped on the kitchen floor. Kitty and I laughed for ages. I should have e-mailed Margot about it right away; I should have taken a picture of the banana peel. Now everything feels like you had to be there and oh never mind, I guess it’s not that funny.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“When someone’s sick and not getting better, people give you all types of crap. They tell you things’ll be fine because they want to believe it themselves. But the truth I’ve found is that you just have to learn to keep going despite the pain.”
Source: The Dark Divide
“When someone’s sole reason for being close to your face is to help with your makeup, it is not the done thing to hook your arm around their neck, latch your legs around their hips, and slide your tongue into their mouth as thanks for their assistance.
And I did not do so! But out of nowhere, I wanted to. Sweet Spirit, how I wanted to.
Welcome to Leo Has Bad Ideas, a one-act play by a dumbass.”
Source: The Quicksand Theatre Company
“When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.”
“When someone saves your life and gives you life, there is gratitude and humility; there is a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance in life that maybe, you did or did not deserve.”
“When someone Saw into that world, of course it would be startling, even frightening, because what she saw then was a mirror reflecting back the mysterious reaches within her own hidden self. The more imaginative a person was, the more able to suspend her disbelief, the truer the image would seem. The more real. Especially since such moments must spring up out of one's subconscious; ...”
Source: The Wild Wood
“When someone says "that resonates with me" what they are saying is "I agree with you" or "I align with you." Once your ideas resonate with an audience, they will change. But, the only way to have true resonance is to understand the ones with whom you are trying to resonate. You need to spend time thinking about your audience. What unites them, what incites them? Think about your audience and what's on their mind before you begin building your presentation. It will help you identify beliefs and behavior in your audience that you can connect with. Resonate with.”
“When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'”
“When someone says "don’t freak," wouldn’t a person think that maybe they should freak?”
Source: Colorado State of Mind
“When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.”
Source: The decline and fall of science