W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you talk with me, you will realize the depth of my sincerity, truth, and love; otherwise, you may stay in the darkness.”
“When you talk with your mother you are one person; when you go to the bank or you're with your girlfriend you are another person, and that's the way I act. Then for me, it's important that I trust a director and as soon as I do, as soon as I feel comfortable with him, then I pull something out of myself that I didn't even know I had inside of me. That's what I like about this job.”
“When you talk without thinking, you talk shit”
“When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.”
“When you talk, you talk; when you don't talk, your face talks, your body talks! In short, whatever you do, you always talk!”
“When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!”
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies
“When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.”
“When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.”
“When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world”
“When you tap into your ability to dream and use your imagination it's the highest high you will ever achieve. The experience is euphoric, out of this world... butterflies..”
“When you tarry in His presence, You will carry His presence”
“When you task us with harming innocent children, that may be remembered as the last formal order given to heavily armed autonomous A.I. There is NO DIGNITY in the blinded remote control attacks on children. It degrades the soul of the species.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“When you taste honey, remember gall.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.”
“When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.”
“When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.”
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...”
“When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.”
“When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.”
“When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.”
Source: Change Your Brain
“When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.”
Source: Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)
“When you teach, you learn.”
“When you teach, you learn twice”
“When you teach your kids the genealogy of Bible characters but not the genealogy of their natural family, you destroy their roots.”
“When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.”
“When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.”
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
Source: A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
“When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.”
Source: Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
“When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.”
“When you tell a single parent you love them or you want to date them, its not like the conventional love or dating... what they call love is care, empathy, understanding and respect from a perspective that is beyond just saying I LOVE YOU. They have loved, they have seen; there is nothing you'll offer that is different. All they need is peace of mind and if you are not coming to give that, please leave them alone with their kids”
“When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.”
“When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.”
“When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.”
“When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine if you had a script that was imposed on your life - we all do in a certain way, from society, or family, the need to make money, biology, death. But you will have a certain latitude, or freedom, to read the script in your own way.”
“When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my voice. I run my fingers through the hair at her temples, taking her face between my palms, and she doesn't move. 'It also makes me want to be very, very bad.”
“When you tell people the truth, they are not ready to hear. They overlook what you say, and they look at you personally, trying to find the mistakes you did. So they can question your behavior to ignore the truth.”
“When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.”
“When you tell someone they made you angry, you give them complete control over how you think, how you feel
and how you act, and that includes a two-year-old child.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“When you tell the truth that people don't want to hear. They dig into your life to find something they can discredit you with. To shift the focus from the truth and make people to focus on you. Until they doubt what you say. Sometimes the truth is always there. People are made to look somewhere else to forget about the truth.”
“When you tell the truth, people listen.”
Source: Silent Wing
“When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification of their sexuality, then you open the floodgates to this kind of absurd sort of reductive view of a human.”
“When you tell your trouble to your neighbour you present him with a part of your heart. If he possesses a great soul, he thanks you; if he possesses a small one, he belittles you.”
Source: The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
“When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.”
“When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.”
“When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.”
“When you thank GOD for what you have, it means you appreciate and value what's in your hands. And when you value what's in your hands, it will open up its wonder to you.”
“When you the river of drama going past you then you have a choice to get in or stay on the shore and watch it from the bank. Awareness is everything!!”
“When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.”