W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”
“When words are kind, they become a soothing balm that helps someone make a fresh start. Do not stop being kind, even when the world seems unkind.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“When words are less through dance, we express the emotions hidden within.”
“When words are most empty, tears are most apt.”
Source: Chronicles of the Cross Collection
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”
Source: Richard II
“When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony”
“When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me.”
“When words become prayers, stories become healing.”
Source: Angel Numbers 101: Daily Guidance for a Higher Life
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
“When words become weapons, reputations go to trial.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“When words begin to tumble, sentences make no sense.”
“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”
Source: A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska
“When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for "refudiate," which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was "misunderestimate."”
“When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons:
1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them.
2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control.
3. They don’t know the truth themselves.
4. They are undecided.
5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously.
6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.”
“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet”
“When words fail music
speaks.”
“When words fail, silence will not be our answer. We will find new ways to speak, new ways to be heard, and we will stand tall, unwavering in our resolve.”
Source: Slipping into another world
“When words fail, the guitar speaks.”
“When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.”
Source: Words of Power
“When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )”
“When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.”
“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton”
“When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.”
“when words make noise, silence can talk.”
“when words no longer
stay contained within my mind
poems might just fly”
“When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. ("Only needed a light ")”
“When words start to fade, we move closer, and everything else dissolves. The waves, the world, even time itself. We kiss, and it’s slow and soft, soaking in each other's touch. When we finally make love, it’s not desperate—it’s peaceful. A promise without words. A memory we both know will last.”
Source: Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
“When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“When words were carved in stone, we got the Ten Commandments. When we had to make our own ink and chase a goose around the yard to get a quill (and before the Infite Monkey Theorem was developed), we got William Shakespeare . When the fountain pen was invented, we got Henry James. When the typewriter came along, we got Jack Kerouac. And with the Internet we get - the President of the United States on Twitter”
Source: None of My Business
“When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.”
“When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“When work is at the center and home and family is on the fringe, your entire life can fall apart at the drop of a downsizing. Structure your life in such a way that home is at the center and work is on the fringe to protect you and your family.”
“When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.”
“When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.”
“When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.”
“When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort”
“When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.”
“When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.”
“When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.”
“When working at the bottling plant, she'd felt herself turning into something nearly savage, fingers stiff, mind numb, chest a cage. There'd been cats in their village who'd hiss and spit at anyone who came near them, and Xiaolei thought she could understand why. Sometimes if she wanted to leave her room, she first found herself listening from inside for any hall noises and waiting until they subsided before exiting; the sound of another door rasping open would prompt her to pause. If she spotted people her age clustered in the courtyard--a few girls had made friendly overtures--she'd turn and make a hasty retreat, as if suddenly remembering something. It wasn't surprising, she told herself: all wild animals fear human contact.”
Source: Land of Big Numbers
“When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.”
“When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.”
Source: Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition
“When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.”
“When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.”
“When working on relationships, it’s not that the other person’s issues don’t exist, it’s just that ours are the only ones that we ever have any ability to fix.”
“When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.”