W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we understand the truth that all life is the same substance, that all life is consciousness, that all life has a purpose to fulfill; we will perfectly understand that all lives matter and that there is no life that cannot matter.”
“When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.”
“When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man”
“When we unfetter our emotions, we liberate unconscious desires and intuitions and open up new grounds in the jungle of our dreams. (Another empty room)”
“When we unite in spirit of FUN ,life feels better.”
“When we unite with the Supreme Power, the realization of the infinite is pure bliss.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“When we unite with the Supreme Power, the realization of the infinite is pure bliss. A bliss that cannot be tasted by the tongue, smelled by the nose, seen by the eyes, or known to the mind.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“When we unite with the universal consciousness, it becomes as one consciousness, being in the omnipresence.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.”
Source: Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
“When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens. We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image. However, we now recognize that if was the other way around. The God of theism came into being as a human creation. As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.”
“When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.”
“When we uplift others, we in turn uplift ourselves.”
Source: I Am a Girl from Africa
“When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.”
“When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.”
“When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.”
Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
“When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.”
“When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.”
“When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.”
“When we use silence, we know exactly what’s going on in our minds and just don’t share it, but others don’t know what we hide at that moment. We know how we feel and think, but we refuse to share these thoughts.
If you have a certain belief, you identify as this certain box they have created to fit you in along with other people who share similar beliefs. The mind does not like complexity and wants to keep receiving information simple.
When you remain silent, this quick and simple process that the mind does becomes complex, because it needs more data. Silence requires more analytical thinking which is difficult for a mind that is preoccupied with thousands of tasks and projects to come across daily.
That’s the easiest job the mind can do. Based on previous experiences and personality samples that match yours, they will assume that you identify as a certain type, have certain beliefs or share similar thoughts to other people of that sample.”
Source: The Silence of the Sheep
“When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.”
“When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.”
“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.”
“When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.”
“When we use the word illusion, we mean something is not real in a broader sense. Yet, how do we define reality and illusion? Does reality depend on our senses, understanding, and definitions or on what it is objectively? Why would our senses, “definitions,” and “understanding,” or lack of it, not be reality irrespective of our idea of reality? What constitutes reality? Who decides what reality is? Would it not be logical that whatever exists is real? Even if something does not exist, we can imagine the reality of nonexistence. If everything that exists is real, we can only talk about the degrees or levels of reality without denying reality to something we do not understand. Our lack of understanding shall not be an obstacle to reality but a motivator to try harder and get closer to the most “real” of what is possible.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“When we use the word “sin,” we usually think of our misdeeds—actions or habits we know are wrong. But those are specific sins, and they are the result of sin, the deeper spiritual disease that infects our souls. Sin is the cause; sins are the effect.
Sin is the tree; sins are the fruit. Sin is the disease; sins are the symptoms.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don’t have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we’re the only species that really does anything.”
“When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.”
“When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.”
“When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.”
“When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“When we’ve been betrayed, we feel like we’ve discovered the truth about someone. But in fact all we’ve done is discover one truth about them. We’ve discovered that they can do this bad thing. Fine. Now we know. And, of course, it’s devastating.
But where does that leave us? Knowing this bad truth about someone doesn’t mean that no good truth about them is possible. Not at all. The person who betrayed us might well turn out to be someone who is genuinely sorry and has a real capacity for regaining our trust.”
Source: I Love You But I Don't Trust You: The Complete Guide to Restoring Trust in Your Relationship
“When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.”
Source: The Age of Magic
“When we've completely chosen we want to do something, we can then enjoy it more.”
“When we've decided it's the right direction, we can then make more progress.”
“When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.”
“When we've got a common philosophy and a common objective; then we can advance in open order. We shall be a great team. But we've got to make sure of that common set of ideas. Maybe we shall find our formulae difficult for some of these new types. If we keep our minds open, we may find that they are right and that our formulae have to be modified. Probably -- it's a thought that shouldn't dishearten us -- but probably we don't know everything.”
Source: The Holy Terror
“When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens - we're subjects.”
“When we've lost someone close to us and choose to move forward, there is fear in the unknown. We get to choose to run toward something healthy or unhealthy. There are roadblocks to hurdle, challenges to conquer, and painful emotions to sort through. But God, in His tenderness, waits for us. He tries to settle our hearts and when we are ready, He steps with us.”
Source: Wounded Women of the Bible: Finding Hope When Life Hurts
“When we've turned all the mirrors onto ourself, we don't see those around us properly.”
“When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.”
Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”
“When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.”
“When we view compassion as an opportunity to get alongside people and walk together through the pain, we can find solutions that transform everyone involved in the relationship.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“When we view compassion as less relevant than other leadership skills or too soft to be taken seriously, we avoid doing the most important and difficult work of leadership.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.”
Source: The Arrogance of Power