W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
Source: A Pluralistic Universe
“When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.”
“When you have butterflies and you’re feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that’s when you’re most powerful... A lot of people, instead of honing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. There’s another quote that says, ‘A big challenge, a big pressure is like a fire, it’s like a raging fire. Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely, or you can gain control of this fire and harness it and you blow it right at your opponent, Dragonball Z style.’ That’s what I’m trying to do, trying to get my emotions under control and use this adrenaline to my advantage.”
“When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.”
“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
Source: Out of Africa
“When you have character, you hold yourself accountable to yourself.”
Source: The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
“When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.”
“When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.”
“When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...”
“When you have children it wakes up the child in you.”
“When you have children love is always there in the best form.”
“When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.”
“When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.”
“When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.”
“When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes.”
“When you have children, that's when your relationship really gets tested.”
“When you have children, that's your main focus.”
“When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.”
“When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.”
“When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.”
“When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.”
“When you have children, you're obligated to live.”
Source: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.”
“When you have Christ growing in you, and a missile comes at you and tries to stimulate your fallen heart to respond with an ungodly response, which is sin, Christ lays over your fallen heart and stops it from sinning.”
Source: Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins
“When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don’t impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don’t look like dormitories.”
“When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.”
“When you have clarity and commit to manifesting your heart’s desire, you will be drawn to those who light you up on every level…and they will be drawn to you.”
Source: How to Manifest Your SoulMate with EFT: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
“When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.”
“When you have clear goals and how you will identify successful tactics to achieve them, then "winning" becomes what you do best.”
“When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.”
“When you have clearly identified your goals, what you’re going after, and the greatness you’re striving to become, all daily processes and actions should move you in that direction.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
“When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen.
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That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly."
- Warmaster Horus”
Source: False Gods
“When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.”
“When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.”
Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
“When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or not this in coincidence or price fixing. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil and Chevron and Texaco, we have very little competition among the energy companies.”
“When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.”
“When you have confidence, you can do anything.”
“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”
“When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.”
Source: The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi
“When you have creative people, you have to let them do their thing. You have to resist the urge to be too efficient, you have to resist the urge to work to a certain budget and schedule - other than the fact that things have to end. It's harder work to produce this way but my philosophy is that you have to let it be creatively chaotic and let it find its place. When creative people are on to something, you know it and you have to allow it to happen. You can't set a schedule for that.”
“When you have dark thoughts, darkness becomes your best friend!”
“When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?”
Source: Enchiridion
“When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted”
“When you have defined your mission, values and attitudes in the context of leadership influence and excellence, you also need to conduct a personal audit, checking how aligned they are to your current leadership practices. Where necessary, begin to make adjustments.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“When you have developed a fear of the police, who do you call for help?”
“When you have developed ill health, you may find that there are past employer benefits you are entitled to.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue