W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.”
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.”
“When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.”
“When the doves of amity sing, vultures of violence start falling. When vessels of inclusion speak, peddlers of sectarianism lose standing.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.”
“When the dream and the dreamer synchronize in harmony, that union becomes action which makes success inevitable. Be a dreamer that dreams right.”
“When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.”
“When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.”
“When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.”
Source: Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It
“When the dreams are lost, you are not broken, you get shattered. You have two options; either lose yourself in the dust or, pick yourself up, piece by piece and rebuild yourself you by you.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat”
“When the due diligence process fails to account for a holistic set of data, then the leaders are incapable of having a holistic sense of how successful the deal may be, and what chance of success the new entity may have.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke's commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink. The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.”
“When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.”
“When the dust settles, kids respect the kids who dare to say no to things they don't want to do.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“When the dust settles, the horses will be gone”
Source: Spirit of the Wind
“When the dust settles, when the admirers have left, you will have known, that it was always about ageing well, not just about how pretty you were, when young...
Step back, have a look and never lose sight of the bigger picture! ...work towards ageing well!”
“When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.”
“When the eagle flies its highest heights, you do not see that it is an eagle or any other bird, don't be mistaken that you are under the eagle's targeting eyes.”
“When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top of the world, this deep whirlpool that’d take you down and in, like a black hole, no way to escape. These days you look at the surface Web, all that yakking, all the goods for sale, the spammers and spielers and idle fingers, all in the same desperate scramble they like to call an economy. Meantime, down here, sooner or later someplace deep, there has to be a horizon between coded and codeless. An abyss.”
“That’s what you’re looking for?”
“Some of us are.” Avatars do not do wistful, but Maxine catches something. “Others are trying to avoid it. Depends what you’re into.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.”
Source: African people in world history
“When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile.”
“When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.”
“When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.”
“When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“When the Earth was flat we had a fear of falling off the edge. Now the Earth is round we've lost that fear, and all hope of staying on.”
“When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.”
“When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.”
“When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of our interest to make the economic pie larger by eliminating waste whenever and wherever possible.”
“When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.”
“When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.”
“When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.”
“When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.”
“When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of.”
“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.”
“When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?”
Source: Inside: Inside Out\Outside In
“When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.”
“When the efforts made to accomplish it are blinding, success is visible.”
“When the ego abdicates its freedom, when it becomes a passive spectator of its own existence, the times are ripe for the philosophies of History”
Source: The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis
“When the ego burns in the flame of Truth, only the Infinite remains.”
“When the ego dies, the soul awakes.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.”
“When the ego is finally aligned with the Self, we awaken from its abstract constructions and directly experience the present moment, unmediated by mental concepts about ourselves. Life itself becomes a verb, a continuous unfolding, rather than a static noun.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“When the ego is inflated by the Archetype of the Self, some functions of the ego are connected to the reality principle and other sectors harbor grandiose persuasions based on archetypal imagery (Imago Dei) and emotion. Typical with this type of inflation, one feels with great excess, indestructible (protected by God), absolutely justified (having God's mandate) in his or her action, and free from psychological shadow (being supremely good). We termed this type of inflation theocalypsis and will talk more about this concept later in this book.”
Source: Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from The Perspective of Jungian Psychology
“When the ego is tamed to the present moment, the regrets of the past and the worries of the future that dominate one's life suddenly cease.”
“When the ego surrenders to Brahman (the Infinite), the 'Self' Shines forth its eternal nature—Divine Consciousness.”