W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.”
“When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you’ll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws closer to God can possibly remain unchanged.”
“When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.”
“When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.”
“When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.”
“When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers. You must strengthen your manufacturing sector and put it on a level playing field with the world. Any kind of items manufactured globally, like small pens, pencils, notebooks - our manufactured goods need to be on a level playing field. Then let them come. Have a competition.”
“When you bring something back from the brink of death, it fights harder to thrive.”
Source: Best Kind of Broken
“When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.”
“When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders”
“when you bring together the national security state and the military-industrial complex, when you bring together the prison-industrial complex and all the profits that flow from it, when you bring together the corporate media multiplex that don’t want to allow for serious dialogue... and then, when you bring together the Wall Street oligarchs and the corporate plutocrats, and they tell any person or any group, 'If you speak the truth, we’ll shoot you down like a dog and dehumanize you the way we did to dehumanize the brothers in Attica,' the only thing that will keep you going is you better have some love in your heart for the people.”
“When you bring your best to the table, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you bring out the best in others. And soon, you start to realize, that, in turn, helps them bring out the best in you. That’s the upward spiral. You find each other and form an elite group of go-to people in an otherwise ordinary context. I see that happen everywhere I go: circles or networks of go-to people who help each other and go out of their way to be mutually reliable.”
Source: The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done
“When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.”
“When you broaden your perspectives, you set your mind free of limitations.”
Source: Quantraz
“When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!”
“When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.”
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.”
“When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.”
Source: Heartbreaker
“When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.”
“When you build a big empire, you become the persona that people think they know. So when you try to show them who you are, to help them discover you, they just want what they think they know about you. I would have been smarter to build some relationships when I was younger, a private love or something. Today it is more difficult. But it's the price to pay. I never regret anything, because every choice I made for a reason, but I'd love personal love.”
“When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.”
“When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.”
“When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.”
“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.”
Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“When you build a house
You nail down memories
Paint and stain the fabric of time”
“When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.”
“When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.”
Source: Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life
“When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.”
“When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.”
“When you build your brand to a sophisticated level, you begin to attract sophisticated clients.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“When you build your entire empire and kingdom on lies, your reputation is based on lies and manipulation. Your history is fabricated to suit your narrative and make you look like a hero or a victim. Your victories, battles, and power are all built on lies. The only power you have is the ability to control the narrative through lies. That's why you can't stand the truth, because the truth destroys everything you've built and everything you are.”
“When you build your intuitive abilities, you can tap into your intuitive voice. When you are attuned to your intuitive voice, your ordinary life can transform into an extraordinary one. As you develop your skills through intuitive practices and affirmations, you awaken your intuitive senses. Once your senses are in sync with you, they guide the way to utilize your higher wisdom to create the rewarding, joyful, abundant life for which you are destined.”
Source: Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers
“When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.”
“When you burn down a building or topple a car, the violence drown out the injustice of what’s being done to you. It puts you on the same moral level as the people whose violence you are protesting. You’re no longer on the higher ground or plane. You make enemies of the people you need to win over to effect change.”
Source: Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
“When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear”
“When you bury a parent, you lower his or her casket into the ground, but the history between you lives on. The funeral is an ending, yes, but it is also a beginning - the start of a true reckoning with those hurts between you that must be laid to rest. When we buried my mother, I mourned her then and in the years that followed. As I grieved, I thought I'd long since come to terms with my father - with how he'd both delighted and failed me, with the ways in which he'd unknowingly bruised me just as all parents do, despite their best intentions.”
Source: Just as I Am
“When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.”
“When you buy a boat, check the hull; when you buy a house, locate the view; when you enter a relationship, connection, connection, connection.”
Source: Never a Cloud
“When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.”
“When you buy a device from market, you get a booklet with it. Entire western science is a booklet for a device called “human”. They assume that we are human. The East has experienced that “human” is just a device we are currently using. We are much more than a human.”
“When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.”
Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention
“When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
“When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”
“When you buy a meal and you pay a fair price for it, are you doing this to ensure that the employees get health care? When you walk into Mickey D's and you buy a Big Mac, do you ask them, "By the way, is this thing costing enough so that you get health care here? By the way, is this Big Mac costing enough so that you get a pension here?" Do you think any of that when you go buy a Big Mac? No. You want it to be as cheap as it can be. That's why you're there.”
“When you buy a pet-store puppy, you know nothing about the health or temperament of the parents. You have no connection to the breeder of the dog, no resource to go to if you have questions or problems a few months or years from now. But perhaps most important, when you buy a pet-store puppy, you contribute to the demand for puppy-mill-bred puppies, and add to the cycle of misery of mill-owned breeding dogs.”
Source: Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
“When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past”
Source: A Vintage Affair: A Novel
“When you buy a product, you don’t just buy the product: you buy everything that company stands for.
Sisters, are your things rooted in peace?”
Source: Dear Sisters: Your Nature is to Bloom
“When you buy a stock, you buy a piece of business, not a quote from a broker. As long as the company is doing good, your investment is safe.”