W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.”
Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -
“When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.”
“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort).”
“When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.”
“When things happen to people, they radiate a light. Because they’ve got a picture caught inside them. Because they were there and you weren’t. And because you’ve only got a piece and because all you can do is shrink and blow up that one tiny piece.”
Source: The Tracey Fragments
“When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?”
“When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.”
“When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.”
“When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.”
“When things look out of control, at that time they are the most in control.”
“When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“When things no longer meet our expectations and our identity feels undermined, and we fail to restore the tears and fractures, we can indeed keep on tinkering in our corner and living in denial, or we can make the big leap into the unknown and immerge into the well of our unspoken will power, and give trust to our inner second self. ("The freedom of new thinking")”
“When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.”
Source: The Solution
“When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“When things seem to be impossible for you in certain ways and places; don't fight with anyone, don't make noise in any way, do not force things; rather, move with the flow, for your life is like a watercourse directed by God Almighty himself. Remember when someone closes doors for you, God Almighty will open a mighty and wonderful, flourishing door for you, one that is above the closed one. Hallelujah”
Source: Blogs From God Almighty: Books Of Strength
“When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.”
“When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get a lot of gratification when I do something that's really quick. Like if you've got someone who's really twitchy, like Lady Gaga. I have never in my life seen someone move that much in a chair. I said, "Look, your hair's knackered, you wear wigs all the time. Let's cut it off." It took 10 minutes.”
“When things start to fall apart, they fall together perfectly. Like sand falling through your fingers, you have to let it fall, then come together naturally.”
“When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.”
“When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on”
“When things start to improve, when the opportunities arise, and when you finally see the results of your hard work, don’t let doubt creep in. You put in the time, faced the struggles, and stayed committed when no one was watching. Own your success with confidence, knowing that you earned every bit of it. Growth isn’t luck—it’s built through persistence.”
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things turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace”
“When things twist and turn, stay rooted in trust and calm confidence. Even the unexpected detours are part of the design. You can determine that no matter what happens, you will benefit from it in a positive way.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“When things won't go your way, don't resist the new direction the universe is pulling you in; instead, keep an open mind and embrace the new possibilities.”
“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
“When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.”
“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.”
“When thinking about what to do next with your life, don’t ask yourself what you would succeed at, but what you would most enjoy failing at.”
“When thinking is overrated
And friends are easy to make,
Check if it's too complicated
Knowing yourself somehow...
Inner peace's not hard to take,
Never lost or underestimated.
Get out of social media... NOW!”
Source: ACross Tic
“When thinking of how to say something, think about how you feel.”
“When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.”
“When thinking won't cure fear, action will.”
“When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.”
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under the name of liberalism, I did not indulge in the vain hope that my account would prevent the impending catastrophes to which the policies adopted by the European nations were manifestly leading. All I wanted to achieve was to offer to the small minority of thoughtful people an opportunity to learn something about the aims of classical liberalism and its achievements and thus to pave the way for a resurrection of the spirit of freedom after the coming debacle.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
“When this all goes to shit and my best friend rightfully punches me the fuck out, takes my company, and kicks me out of his life, I'm going to remember this moment right here. The moment it all seems worth it."
Her lips start to lift, and I tell myself that I'm doing the right thing. The right thing for me, for once in my damn life.
"With you standing in front of me, back straight, fire in your eyes, hair a mess from my hands, and that ring on your finger. When that happens, help me remember, okay?"
Courtney nods, licking her lips and moving into my space. She presses me into the counter with her body, bare tits pressed to my chest and hope in her eyes.
Hope for me. For us.
And it's beautiful and sweet and all I ever wanted.
"It'll be okay, Kaede. It'll be finer than fine, I promise."
Sure, it will. I nod, even though I don't believe her. I'm only risking ... everything. Court might lose some face, and yeah, Ross will be mad at her. But she's his sister. He'll forgive her.
But he legit might kill me.
I kiss her anyway, signing my own death certificate.”
Source: My Big Fat Fake Engagement
“When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is no point. You never move, so what is the point of travelling the whole earth? You remain the same; then desires slow down. One day it happens: the wheel is as silent, as unmoving as the hub. That is the point when enlightenment happens.”
“When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.”
Source: Yoga: A Gem for Women
“When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.”
Source: The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave
“When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.”
“When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.”
“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When this election is over, you're done, you're finished. There is no more GOP. Don't care what you GOP leaders are thinking, you're not welcome. We don't want you in our club, and you're not gonna get in.”
“When this flood blocks the road
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination.”
“When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.”
“When this house was built, people used daggers and their fingers,” he said. “And it’ll probably last until the days when men dine off capsules.”
“Fancy asking friends to come over for capsules,” I said.
“Oh, the capsules will be taken in private,” said Father. “By that time, eating will have become unmentionable. Pictures of food will be considered rare and curious, and only collected by rude old gentlemen.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”
“When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.”