W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you’re thankful, you quietly say to life: “I notice. I appreciate. I trust.”
(Gratitude — The Purest Form of Abundance)”
Source: Joy Is the Key and You Are the Door
“When you're the first, you don't get to be the last, too. Not usually.”
Source: Love and Other Theories
“When you're the only light in the dark, please shine. Remember, there will be no value to your inferior incandescence at sunrise”
“When you're thinking, tap your talons. It makes you seem more menacing. - The Malwatch”
“When you’re Thoughtfully Fit and life feels easier, this doesn’t mean life is easier. Bad things will still happen. Relationships will challenge you. Crises will hit. Adversity will strike. People problems will still be there. But training to be Thoughtfully Fit makes it easier to deal with these challenges and handle them right the first time.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When you’re Thoughtfully Fit, you’ll have specific skills and strategies to help you tap into your expertise—about your choices and what you control—to find a thoughtful course of action.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When you’re too busy even to write the eulogy for your free time, you might find resuscitating your schedule is as easy as multitasking more effectively or trying a new study technique.”
Source: Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life
“When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When you're translating a document or a speech, if you don't have all the words, you don't have all the meaning. I'd only had my words thus far, my thoughts, not hers. That had given me an incomplete picture, one with pockets of omissions… (154)”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“When you're traumatized, your sense of self, your individuality, is beaten up. Your skin color, your background, your pain, your hope, your gender, your faith, it's all defiled. Those essential pieces of yourself are stolen. You, as a person, are emptied and flattened, and that violence, that theft, keeps you from embodying a life that feels like your own. To continue to exist, as a whole person, you need to re-create, for yourself, an identity untouched by everything that's been used against you. You need to imagine and build a self out of elements that are not tainted. You need to remake yourself on your own terms.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself and looking after yourself. So when you travel all you really encounter is yourself, as if that were the whole point of it. When you're at home you simply are, you don't have to struggle with anything or achieve anything. You don't have to worry about the railways connections, and timetables, you don't need to experience any thrills or disappointments. You can put yourself to one side - and that's when you see the most.”
“When you're true to yourself you're going to lose some people. Let them go.”
“WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.”
“When you’re trying to communicate a big, audacious concept, it’s helpful to remember that where data falls short, a story might close the gap, and where story alone is not persuasive enough, data can make up the difference.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“When you're trying to fall asleep alone and you hear your buddy having sex on the coach in your parents living room.... Yes, it's like a traumatic nuclear explosion at Jurassic park. It's the kindness that causes temporary blindness... One day you'll laugh. But at first you might not find it funny." - @”
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
Source: Joyland
“When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s”
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“When you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important, ask yourself, what do you love? And when you answer, Tatiana, you will know who you are. And more important - if you ask this question of the people around you, you will know who they are too.”
Source: The Summer Garden
“When you’re used to constant toxicity, you feel lost without it.”
“When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.”
Source: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.”
Source: Why Not Me?
“When you’re with good friends being yourself should be good enough.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“When you're with me, you're not someone else. You're not a girl who needs coddling or saving, you hear me?”
Source: Every Dark Shadow
“When you’re working at an unsustainable pace, when you feel emotionally flooded, when things are moving so fast you can’t keep up, then you need to add Stillness to your day. The goal is to take however much time you need to quiet your mind.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.”
“When you’re working to find Balance in a relationship, chances are you’ll have to confront any conflict head-on. These conversations have all kinds of names, but whether you call them crucial, fierce, or difficult, they’re necessary for relationships to grow in a positive and productive way.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.”
“When you're writing for an actor like Steve - or, for that matter, any actor - you gain a lot by being able to fashion the material to their strengths. But you lose some when it comes to characterization, because you're going to avoid things that don't show off that actor in the best light.”
Source: Cinema Speculation
“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic."
[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]”
“when you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play.”
Source: Ripe
“When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.”
“When you’re young, people always want to listen to your stories, especially if you were in pro baseball. But when you’re young, you don’t have time to tell them. Now I’ve got all the time in the world, and it seems like nobody cares about those old days.”
Source: Blockade Billy
“When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.”
Source: The Samurai's Garden
“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”
Source: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“When you're young, you have all these things to worry about — should
you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but
then something else comes up. It's much easier to just plain decide. Never
mind — nothing is going to change your mind.”
“When you're young, you long for something that doesn't exist; and when you're old you're sad because you never found it.”
“When you're young, you think life is a string of choices. It's either you choose this door or the other door, or jump out of the window. You don't realise that most of what'll happen to you is because of other people's choices. There's a door already opened for you, so you walk straight through it, and you wonder how you wound up on the fire escape. That's life, I'm telling you. Don't bother getting older. Art's the only way I've ever had of making any sense of it.”
Source: Seascraper
“When you're young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of them contradict each other. He's tall. He's tall and strong. He's tall and strong and smart. He's tall and strong and smart but busy. He's tall and strong and smart but busy and aloof and judgemental. She's safe. She's safe and kind. She's safe and kind and caring. She's safe and kind and caring but sad. She's safe and kind and caring but sad and lonely and brittle. Maturity colonizes your adolescent mind, like an ultraviolet photograph of a vast cosmic nebula that turns out, on closer examination, to be a pointillist self-portrait.”
Source: All Our Wrong Todays
“When you're young, you think the world will make room for who you are and what you want.... And then you find the world of adults is even more limiting than the world of children. With no room for adventure, much less yer own thoughts.”
Source: Straight On Till Morning
“When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.”
“When you're younger you're so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you're in love, can't live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase the bad sex hoping something happened to the man over night and the next time it'll be good.”
Source: Sexual Healing
“When you're your own worst enemy, there's no negotiating a truce.”
“When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.”
“When you reach a certain age, do you forget the ceaseless anxiety and remorseless boredom that constitutes teenage life? Does nostalgia induce selective amnesia? Because the way the neighbourhood dads tell it they all holidayed at this incredible resort called Adolescence. Where their Danny Zuko doppelgänger younger selves chased after a string of Sandy Olsson clones, and the days passed like greased lightning. And life was a gas.”
Source: The Drowners
“When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.”
“When you reach a certain age, you see that time is all we have. By which I mean, moments like those springing deer this morning, and watching your mother be born, and sitting at the dining room table here waiting for the phone to ring and announce that a certain baby (you) had been born, or that day when all of us hiked out at Point Lobos. That extremely loud seal, your sister's scarf drifting down, down to that black, briny boulder, the replacement you so generously bought her in Monterey, how pleased you made her with your kindness. Those things were real. That is what (that is all) one gets. All this other stuff is real only to the extent that it interferes with those moments.”
Source: Liberation Day