W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
“While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.”
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.”
“While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.”
“While astronomers have been pleasuring themselves with Space, I have been exploring the biological science of insane masturbators.”
“While astronomers have been studying Mercury, I have been living with mercury.”
“While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.”
“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.”
“While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.”
“While at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Tony found himself to be a complete outlier. He was almost constantly at odds with the mainstream of education. He is the first to admit that a doctorate from Harvard is important largely because everyone thinks it’s important.
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Source: Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
“While at home, you get to know the world, but on the road, yourself.”
“While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.”
“While at the hospital, he felt so awful about his fallen life. It was so surprising how someone could change from grace to disgrace. He realized that just as a man was capable of growing physically and spiritually strong, he was capable of growing weak.”
Source: Unfit for human consumption
“While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.”
“While attending the Citadel, I had gone into an uncontrollable rapture when I read Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. He made the city of Paris glisten with a romantic luster it has never lost for me, and I could think of no finer way to spend a part of my life than by writing a book in the storied, uncapturable city of literature and light.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“While Australia is superficially referred to as a continental nation, upon closer scrutiny, it is in fact an archipelago.”
Source: The Australian Century
“While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.”
“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.”
“While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.”
Source: Creating Myself: How I Learned That Beauty Comes in All Shapes, Sizes, and Packages, Including Me
“While beauty may be common, genuine souls are truly rare; your inner strength is the enduring treasure that forever belongs to you.”
Source: Twin Flames Alchemy: Creating Heaven on Earth: Awakening New Earth through divine union
“While before I was an unknown, wealthy criminal, now I was a well-known, wealthy, supposedly legitimate businessman. It was all about the image.
If people associate you with money and Russia, then you’re seen as a criminal.
If people associate you with money and style, then you’re perceived as legit.”
“While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.”
“While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.”
Source: Chicken pox for the soul
“While being mentored by a Shaman, a major teaching that they deeply instilled in me is how to routinely spiritually protect myself.”
“While being non-violent to others, don't start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.”
“While being polite may seem like a very small deal, behaving that way says a lot about you.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“While being questioners and questers, we are often lost; we follow too many fads and fashions in our search. Too often we are left with a shallow and narcissistic inner life.”
Source: The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women
“While being realistic (at all times, if possible) and not living a life ruled by delusions and fantasies is necessary, it can sometimes stifle growth. Even in a dream where I could leap into the sky and glide for a few moments, I found myself doubting about other matters. If you're prone to doubt, it's sometimes necessary to question your own doubts.”
“While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.”
“While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.”
“While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“While Bernice didn't much trust a baby-faced physician, she appreciated young men called to serve as preachers and farmers, the highest of callings in her opinion, cultivators of souls and the land.”
Source: Bernice Runs Away
“While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.”
“While bilingual is understood as a valuable asset or goal for middle-class and upper-class students, for working-class and poor students it is framed as a disability that must be overcome”
Source: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
“While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its categorisation as a mental illness, particularly at the milder end."
Public confusion caused by differing understandings of the term 'mental illness'.
Jorm AF, Reavley NJ.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 May;46(5):397-9.
PMID: 22535288”
“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”
“While Bonnie may love her books, her favorite thing of all is when kids from the school come over to visit.”
Source: Debbie Wants No Words
“While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.”
“While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“While bourgeois white women claim our right to be ‘nasty’, we expect more marginalised women to be nice.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.”
Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.”
“While branding lays the groundwork for a school's identity and reputation, marketing executes the strategies, adapting to changing landscapes and amplifying the brand's impact.”
“While breath remains, we live inside a single moment — now”
“While breath remains, we live inside a single moment — now. All else is memory or hope—only the weight of what we carry shifts.”
“While briskly to each patriot lip
Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
The quintessence of public spirit!”
Source: M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos
“While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.”