W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When used carefully, thoughtfully and in conjunction with an overall healthy lifestyle, nootropics can be effective at boosting feelings of well-being and energy, promoting resilience and helping ease feelings of stress and anxiety.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“When used in marriage, sex is a celebration of the fact that you’ve given one another everything and are committed to one another irrevocably. Since you’ve already given each other your time, trust, money, income, home, bank account, schedule, and everything else, giving each other your body is safe, natural, and enjoyable. Since you’ve committed to one another ‘for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part,’ you know that the other person will cherish you and will not just throw you out when you fail to perform to their standards.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“When used in place of 'but', the word 'and' allows two seemingly competing ideas to be held side by side. Where the word 'but' minimizes everything that came before, the word 'and' expands us beyond dualistic thinking. When we trade 'but' for 'and', we create the space for ideas to unfold and be explored. If this substitution becomes a habit, we can change the way we think.”
“When used properly, the spells awaken the latent symbolism of Horse Spirit. This energy existed as a primal force before humanity appeared on planet Earth.”
Source: Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity
“When used thoughtfully and purposefully, technology can amplify the impact of teaching and learning, making education more engaging, accessible, and inclusive for all students.”
“When used with purpose, delusion becomes an art that refines you, uplifts you, and inspires others.”
“When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.”
“When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“When using internet dating service, ask what happened to applicant's previous date. If answer is "was eaten alive," you have not found spouse of your dreams.”
Source: Bliss to You: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Life
“When using the Law of Attraction to manifest one’s more desired reality, it is not simply enough to shift one’s conscious thoughts – for it is actually our beliefs that ‘attract’ the reality. Our thoughts are of our Conscious Mind, while our beliefs rest within our Subconscious Mind. The Conscious Mind acts as the objective observer and receiver of information, while the Subconscious Mind acts as storage and the subjective projector of reality. Projector meaning that the Subconscious Mind projects out, or creates, the perceived reality we see by 1) attracting the vibrational matching experiences in alignment with our beliefs, and 2) coloring the film (information) received through the Conscious Mind in accordance with our belief systems (perception). How we see reality is strongly hued by the beliefs imbedded within us.
Thus: shift a belief – shift reality.
For example: We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.
Call to Action: Adopt beliefs that are empowering, heart-connecting, and full of gratitude and peace.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“When using the medical profession, you must remember that it is influenced by many corporations that may not want your health issues to be fully understood and correctly treated.”
“When using the run-walk method to finish a marathon, the most important walk break comes in the first mile. The second most important one comes in the second mile, and so on. The point is, walk before you become fatigued.”
“When utopia is promised from a place of hate, it produces an orgy in the temple of the hateful.”
Source: The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People
“When vaccination programs are successful to the point where the disease is unfamiliar to physicians and public alike, then concerns can arise with real or perceived side effects of a vaccine that affect a very small minority of those vaccinated. Such concerns lead to fewer children being vaccinated and to increasing occurrence of the disease.”
Source: The Immune System, Fourth Edition
“When Val opened the door Jeremy almost had to catch his breath. She
was in a quintessential “little black dress”. This particular one left one
shoulder bare and with her hair swept to the opposite side, the geometry
of it gave the sensation of her being much more exposed than she actually
was. Still, it wasn’t even the flattering attire that nearly left Jeremy
breathless. It was the look in her eyes. That sparkle of joy at seeing him
was unmistakable, and truly the only clue Jeremy typically got of her
feelings for him.
It was said that in ancient Egyptian times the peddlers in the market
could determine a customer’s interest in their wares by the eyes. When
the eye beholds something it desires, the pupils dilate. On some level
everyone knows this, but in the case of the peddlers, if the pupils dilated,
the prices went up. And whether Jeremy knew it consciously or not, her
pupils dilated as she beheld him. All he knew for sure was that that look
told him Valerie was very glad to see him.
Then he saw her eyes slip down to his neck”
Source: The Mayan Legacy
“When valor preys on reason,
it eats the sword it fights with.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.”
“When values are clear, decisions are easy.”
Source: Letters to a CEO
“When values are deeply embedded within an organization, they seldom change.”
“When values lead, credibility follows”
“When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.”
Source: Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results
“When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.”
“When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.
When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.
But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.
And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.”
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.”
“When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.”
“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“When Vasco da Gama breached the Indian Ocean, the playing field had just been vacated by the one force capable of repelling him.”
Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
“When vengeance comes for today and tomorrow you better not find your self in its house.”
“When Veronica Mars was canceled, the following season of pilots for The CW had been announced, and one was Gossip Girl. I read it, and I knew I was sort of old to play any of the kids. I called Dawn Ostroff -- who was the head of The CW at the time -- and said, 'Hey, I did so much narration on Veronica Mars, can I narrate this show? And she said, 'Hey, that's a very good idea.' They knew I had a younger voice, they liked me and they knew I'd show up for work, and I guess that was all I really needed. It was so clear to me how sassy and catty she needed to be.”
“When very complicated situations collapse into simple 'us versus them' problems, then certainty, hate, and escalatory spirals proliferate and become a driving force for perpetual conflict.”
Source: The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts
“When Vicki set up the apartment for me, she bought me a quilt for my bed. It was patchwork-white, blue, some checkered prints, some flowers, some green. And that first night, I just wrapped myself in that quilt to feel safe. It's been with me ever since. It's been with me through some of the hardest times in my life. It's falling apart now; it's like strings in places. My husband hates it, but I can't get rid of it. I hold on to the things that keep me safe.”
Source: If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
“When victory seems unattainable, do not speak words of despair. Sing a song of victory and focus on a positive mindset.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.”
“When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.”
“When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.”
“When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.”
“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
“When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.”
“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”
Source: Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
“When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.”
“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.”
“When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.”
Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“When Vision is married to Virtue, Impossible is nothing.”
“When visionaries die, their vision lives on.”
“When visions come to us in the night, they are called dreams. The very movement of history seems to be directed by the conception of these dreams and efforts to realize them. How we conceive of the future, in other words, is of utmost importance to our collective destiny.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It