W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”
“When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family”
“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”
Source: Conversations with Philip Roth
“When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.”
“When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.”
“When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.”
“When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.”
“When you pursue and discover
your God-given purpose, a journey
of self-discovery begins.”
Source: Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes
“When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.”
“When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.”
“When you push people to the wall in your bid to silence them for standing up to or against your ideology—whether right or wrong—you risk losing them entirely. Worse still, you may create a new breed of monsters who will torment the very generation you meant to protect. Treat people with kindness always, for tables do turn.”
“When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesn't matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber.
And it doesn't matter if you're a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. It's a natural process that happens in everyone's brain, once the drugs take over. So don't ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - The Heroin Scene in Fort Myers
“When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.”
“When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.”
“When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.”
Source: Dream On
“When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.”
“When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.”
“When you put a female heart into a man, it will continue to beat like a female heart. And vice versa.”
Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."”
“When you put a great big obstacle (your feeling of unworthiness), in front of a running stream, it's not like it's going to stop the flow of the divine force. The divine force will just go around your unworthiness and flow someplace else.”
“When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.”
“When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.”
“When you put a healthy person in an unhealthy society, he becomes unhealthy.”
“When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.”
“When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.”
Source: Three plays
“When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power meter. When the power bar starts going down, you've gotta look at what's going on.”
“When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.”
“When you put a thing on paper, sometimes you discover you already know the answer. Or maybe that there is no answer, which is the same thing.”
Source: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
“When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.”
“When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.”
“When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.”
“When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.”
“When you put an image on the newsstand, you have literally two seconds to get somebody's attention. Often, with many of the subscriber covers, they're far away and the thing that catches your attention more than anything on the newsstand is eye contact.Because you've got a smaller image, and sometimes a darker image, often it doesn't stand out, as much as a traditional newsstand cover, which is why we continue to do right for newsstand.”
“When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.”
“When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.”
“When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.”
“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.”
Source: More letters of a self-made diplomat
“When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”
“When you put God first in everything you do, your whole life will change forever.”
“When you put God in charge of your life, no one can take you out of line.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.”
“When you put in so little, don’t expect to take out so much.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“When you put Listerine in your mouth, it hurts. Germs do not go quietly.”
“When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.”
Source: Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace
“When you put money first money will not manifest.”
“When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.”
“When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World