W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When supply can't keep up with demand, the result is bidding wars. And in bidding wars, there are always winners and there are always losers. There are no mutually beneficial outcomes. So from an economic perspective, this is extremely wasteful.”
“When surplus assets sit idle in companies, this is its own form of waste. Unproductive capital is a form of waste. Idleness is a form of waste.”
“When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“When surrounded by darkness your only duty is to shine.”
“When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.”
“When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.”
“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a character looks, it is the reader's imagination that completes the image, making it his or her own. "That's why we so often don't like movies made from books, right?" Suzie said. "We don't like someone else's interpretation of what we see so clearly." She talked, too, about how books educate and inspire, and how they soothe the soul-"like comfort food without the calories," she said. She talked about the tactile joys of reading, the feel of a page beneath one's fingers; the elegance of typeface on a page. She talked about how people complain that they don't have time to read, and reminded them that if they gave up half an hour of television a day in favor of reading, they could finish twenty-five books a year. "Books don't take time away from us," she said. "They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed's sake, they reintroduce us to the elegance-and the relief!-of real, tick-tock time.”
Source: Home Safe
“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time.
So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear.
Too many years to be sincere, and too many lost favorites that were never there.
A tear or two, and maybe three; apathy is-and may not be me.”
“When swimmers dive
into my memory pool
crystal waves
rise in hundreds from the
blurred water.”
Source: Nrishamsa Parkhalharu
“When swimming 50 yards, I mowed one of them, and that’s why I never finished the race. If I'd have kept going, I probably could have made The Olympics, but now all I've got to show for my time in the water is 25 ducklings.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.”
“When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.”
“When systems forget people, people must remember each other. That’s how change begins—not in policy, but in presence.”
“When Sônia [Braga] talked about the script in detail, it was as if she had seen the film [Aquarius] last night, even though it hadn't existed yet. It was a completely bulls - t-less reaction, so I knew it had to be her, and she has been great ever since.”
“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.”
“When taking a polarized side, without understanding why the others exist, leads to us being less discerning.”
“When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best”
“When taking a suitor to task for not demonstrating sufficient impatience to declare himself so as to scale the wall outside your bedchamber and enter your room through the window, which, you will recall, you did last night,” he said with conversational ease as if arriving to take tea in her sitting room, “it’s commonly accepted courtesy to have a window through which he may enter. In the absence of just such an aperture, I was forced to sneak into the house through the front door.”
Source: A Nefarious Engagement
“When taking nutritional supplements, it is important to know which ones have toxicity associated with them.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.”
“When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.”
Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.”
“When talking about my relationship with God, or any other area of my life, I want to choose to GROW. Incidentally, my waistline is contradictory to this. It grows when I ignore it and only decreases when I am intentional!”
Source: GROW: A COACH APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN GROWTH
“When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.”
“When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.”
“When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level”
“When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.”
“When Tanya thinks about the kind of mother she wants to be, she knows she wants to be different from her own. She wants to be the kind of parent who never lets her child see any of her own sadness or anger or loneliness, because she knows how much it hurts to see that in your own mother. How stifling it can be; how impossible it becomes to have any of your own feelings. She knows it's impossible, though. That if she tries to mask all of that from her child, she'll just be hiding. And the truth is–children are smarter than that. They'd see right through her.
Really what she wants to be is a mother who isn't in pain. She wonders if such a woman exists.”
Source: Something Wild
“When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.”
“When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.”
Source: Tarzan of the Apes
“When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.”
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“When taxes are too high, people go hungry.”
“When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.”
“When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to launch.”
Source: Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.”
“When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.”
“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
Don’t just practice until you get it right, PRACTICE UNTIL YOU CAN’T GET IT WRONG.”
Source: Oware Mosaic
“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”
“When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.”
“When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience, teachers join as equals with their students, and each, as audience members within the darkened space of the performance, create their own poems to hold within themselves or share with others.”
Source: Three Moons Till Tomorrow: An Examination of the Interactions, Transactions, and the Construction and Co-Construction of Meaning by Elementary School Students, Teachers, and Theatre Professionals with an Original Children's Musical Play
“When teachers stop learning, so do students.”
Source: Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction
“When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.”
“When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.”
“When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.”
“When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.”
“When teams decide to automate a set of existing tests that were previously designed as manual tests, the best way forward is to rewrite and redesign the tests from scratch. Keep the purpose, but throw away pretty much everything else.”
Source: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests
“When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level.”
“When tears parade with accurately discipline upon my cheeks and disperse on the ground; I feel its hardship and pain that, teach me not to cause others such situation.”