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 to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.”
“When you have to jump, you jump.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War
“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
Source: Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel
“When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.”
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
“When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling”
“When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.”
“When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.”
“When you have to pretend to be someone, anyone other than yourself. Then you need to make over every part of you. Because just pretending to be someone, anyone other than yourself, you always will be just you. Make over your attitude, your ways, values and morals. Then you will be free to be just you.”
Source: Words of "Expressions" on a Page: Poetry Love
“When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.”
“When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.”
“When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.”
“When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.”
“When you have to stop and think about things is when they go wrong.”
“When you have to work, work with a smile.”
“When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.”
“When you have too many beers, you become like a control freak on everything.”
“When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.”
“When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.”
“When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.”
“When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.”
“When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.”
“When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.”
“When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.”
“When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.”
“When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how each one of them approaches their job and how they bring their own experiences to it.”
“When you have two people challenge for the same job and you keep them both and call them co-CEOs, or the whole fiasco of a 'merger of equals'... there is no such a thing. So if there should be dreams of dual leadership, the chances of success are limited. But Bernie [Ecclestone] is still at the top of his game I have noticed.”
“When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.”
“When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon.”
“When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.”
Source: A Moveable Feast
“When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.”
“When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.”
“When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.”
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”
Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People
“When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.”
“When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.”
“When you have watched someone from childhood, you know them. You know what they came with, even if you don’t like it. Young children don’t pretend to be something they are not. They don’t even know how to. They only know what they are.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world really takes it on the chin. When the U.S. decides to set their corn on fire rather than to eat it, which is what the biofuels policy basically is - then that drives up the price of corn. It drives up the price of substitutes. And all of a sudden you have a sort of spiral of food prices. And other countries don't have the resources, because they're not allowed to, to weather the storm.”
“When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.”
“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”
“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
Source: Killosophy
“When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?”
“When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.”
“When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.”
“When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.”
“When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands.”
“When you have your best interest at heart, because your first relationship is with yourself and you will not have someone else’s best interest at heart before having your own, you wouldn’t purposely choose to open yourself up to a detrimental experience. You would apply your knowingness and understand the importance of choosing to enter into situations that preserve your inner work.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships