W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.”
“When you bake a pizza, you're not actually changing it from an uncooked pizza to a cooked one. What you're doing is hiding the uncooked pizza, while simultaneously searching for a pizza which is cooked, and then finding it”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.”
“When you banish me, you who are maryadapurushottham will be writing a law which will render innocent women of coming generations homeless and destitute.”
Source: The Vigil and Other Stories
“When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.”
Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)”
“When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”
“When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.”
“When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve”
“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.”
Source: The September Society
“When you become 70, you can't deny that you're on the downhill. But I keep doing what I've been doing. If I retired, what would I do? I'd brood about my kids and I'd play around with my investments, which would probably cost me.”
“When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.”
“When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.”
“When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop reading the funnies. It's like working at a strip club. You don't come home and turn on the Playboy Channel.”
“When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.”
“When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and they don't tell you that as girls. How am I supposed to know that blinking light means something? There are all these little languages that you have to know, but you don't know.”
“When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.”
“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”
“When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.”
“When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.”
“When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.”
“When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.”
“When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.”
“When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.”
“When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.”
“When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.”
“When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.”
“When you become a raindrop in your mind
Thunder is the closest friend you may find
Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust
Everything you will bear once you adjust”
“When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.”
“When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.”
“When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much.”
Source: The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
“When you become a success, you will also recognize more value in yourself, and when you share your nuggets of success, you will also inspire value in someone else.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you”
Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
“When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'”
“When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism”
“When you become acquainted with love you develop the feeling of hatred simultaneously. It's human nature to hate everything that comes in the way as a hurdle. I have made my life complicated once I learned to hate. It's the heaviest therefore hardest to let go!”
“When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.”
“when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS”
“When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they’ll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“When you become an actively engaged listener, you will develop the mindful awareness that active listening involves multiple layers and distinct levels.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“When you become an actor, you never, ever imagine you're going to be working on one role for a decade, and while it is such a blessing to get the opportunity to do that, it's also nice to do something different.”
“When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.”
“When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.”
“When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.”
“When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.”
“When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you!”