W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.”
“While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”
“While Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and ESG frameworks have pushed companies to consider their broader impact, a new frontier is emerging: Permaculture Economics. This holistic approach transcends the traditional focus on mitigating negative impact and instead emphasizes actively creating a regenerative future.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“While Corrie slept, the forest awakened around him. This forest was full of wildlife and colorful flowers. There were birds perched on branches of trees, squirrels digging up nuts, and butterflies fluttering back and forth, as a river's waters splashed against rocks in the distance. The smell of the flowers danced on the wind throughout the forest, filling it with the sweetest scents ever smelled by human beings.”
Source: Corrie Cocker Spaniel
“While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.”
“While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”
Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...”
“While crime is punished it yet increases.”
“While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.”
“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”
“While crocodiles kill hundreds of people in Africa each year, the local people have learnt to live with the danger and often bathe in crocodile areas. This strikes me as reckless - yet if the people here were to visit London or New York they might wonder how people could possibly live with so much dangerous traffic careening around and all the cancerous pollution choking the air.”
Source: Traversa
“While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them.”
“While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“While dashing about, trying to avoid all the outrageous slings and arrows Fate hurls at us, we’ll occasionally slip on an empyrean banana peel and land on our metaphysical behinds.”
Source: Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors – Well-Documented Ghost Stories from America's Darkest Hills and Coasts
“While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.”
“While David runs the financial end of the Rockefeller dynasty, Nelson runs the political. Nelson would like to be President of the United States. But, unfortunately for him, he is unacceptable to the vast majority of the grass roots of his own party. The next best thing to being President is controlling a President. Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon are supposed to be bitter political competitors. In a sense they are, but that still does not preclude Rockefeller from asserting dominion over Mr. Nixon. When Mr. Nixon and Mr. Rockefeller competed for the Republican nomination in 1968, Rockefeller naturally would have preferred to win the prize, but regardless of who won, he would control the highest office in the land.
You will recall that right in the middle of drawing up the Republican platform in 1960, Mr. Nixon suddenly left Chicago and flew to New York to meet with Nelson Rockefeller in what Barry Goldwater described as the "Munich of the Republican Party." There was no political reason why Mr. Nixon needed to crawl to Mr. Rockefeller. He had the convention all sewed up. The Chicago Tribune cracked that it was like Grant surrendering to Lee.
In The Making of the President, 1960, Theodore White noted that Nixon accepted all the Rockefeller terms for this meeting, including provisions "that Nixon telephone Rockefeller personally with his request for a meeting; that they meet at the Rockefeller apartment…that their meeting be secret and later be announced in a press release from the Governor, not Nixon; that the meeting be clearly announced as taking place at the Vice President's request; that the statement of policy issuing from it be long, detailed, inclusive, not a summary communiqué."
The meeting produced the infamous "Compact of Fifth Avenue" in which the Republican Platform was scrapped and replaced by Rockefeller's socialist plans. The Wall Street Journal of July 25, 1960, commented: "…a little band of conservatives within the party…are shoved to the sidelines… [T]he fourteen points are very liberal indeed; they comprise a platform akin in many ways to the Democratic platform and they are a far cry from the things that conservative men think the Republican Party ought to stand for…" As Theodore White put it:
"Never had the quadrennial liberal swoop of the regulars been more nakedly dramatized than by the open compact of Fifth Avenue. Whatever honor they might have been able to carry from their services on the platform committee had been wiped out. A single night's meeting of the two men in a millionaire's triplex apartment in Babylon-by-the-Hudson, eight hundred and thirty miles away, was about to overrule them; they were exposed as clowns for all the world to see."
The whole story behind what happened in Rockefeller's apartment will doubtless never be known. We can only make an educated guess in light of subsequent events. But it is obvious that since that time Mr. Nixon has been in the Rockefeller orbit.”
Source: None Dare Call It Conspiracy
“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”
“While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.”
“While DC arc fault detectors are on new solar photovoltaic systems, the old ones generally do not have them.”
“While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.”
Source: Complete Poems
“While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.
Painful change just takes time.”
Source: Frank N' Goat: A Tale of Freakish Friendship
“While death solves nothing, to a heart weighed down by life’s storms, it can appear as the only true escape.”
“While defending your Dream from Competing Opportunities, always be guided by your Values
rather than perceived necessities”
Source: Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On
“While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his children explain their school grades. Usually, some uncontrolled part of the bod–-a foot, a finger, or even a nose--gave evidence of the state of affairs inside the speaker; further, the non-listening listener could not be lulled by flattery or charm, nor by persuasive numbers. He simply watched a person, looking for evidence that what they were saying was not what they knew or believed.”
Source: Give Unto Others
“While delivering consistently good customer service requires work and alignment across your entire organization, a good place to start is your support team. It's important to hire people who genuinely want to help your customers succeed — and to pay rates that are attractive to skilled professionals.”
Source: Happy Customers
“While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.”
Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy
“While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.”
“While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.”
“While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.”
“While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.”
“While Detroit was fighting for its life, the seeds of the mobility revolution were being planted by companies from outside the auto industry, by players with a bone-deep understanding of digital technology and a passion for designing and delivering compelling transportation experiences.”
Source: Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World – An Insider's Account of Innovation and Disruption
“While developing a healthy self-esteem is a lifetime learning process, you can take daily steps to enjoy a confident sense of well-being beginning tody.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.”
“While directly serving their customers, companies should indirectly serve the interests of society by taking responsibility for the holistic impact of their activities. Its simply a more broad view of value creation. This is what ESG is all about. With this perspective, the goal is still Profit — Profit for all stakeholders, to varying degrees and in varying capacities of course. This holistic view of profit produces what I call Multiplicative Value Effects, or, win-win scenarios as opposed to win-lose scenarios where the prerequisite of a companies win is a loss for societal stakeholders.”
“While disagreements and interpersonal conflicts are common in even the healthiest of family systems, family scapegoating goes far beyond this, making recovering from its impact and effects difficult. For example, more than half of those who responded to an FSA survey I conducted have been described as
“mentally ill”; “emotionally sick,” or “a liar” by a parent or other relative when there was absolutely no truth to this whatsoever. Naturally, being spoken about in this way can be confusing, angering, and even traumatizing to the target of such hostile
and defamatory statements.”
Source: Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role
“While discovering the others, we get to know ourselves, find inner peace, and, so acquire poise and self-reliance to face up to the undisclosed or anonymous, out there. ("With confidence »)”
“While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.”
Source: Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple
“While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.”
Source: Blessed Are the Unsatisfied: Finding Spiritual Freedom in an Imperfect World
“While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.”
Source: Archangel's Blade
“While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.”
“While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.”
“While doing Karma, don’t worry about the rewards.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“While doing research, a researcher tries to fill up gap(s) but also unknowingly creates gap(s). The later researcher(s) tries to fill that specific gap(s) and adds something new to the existing knowledge. Such is the beauty of ‘research’!”
“While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.”
“While doing the bare minimum may seem appealing at first sight, you may want to take a second look.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.”
“While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on.”
“While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.”
“While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great country, it's been weakened by poor leadership, and only he can make it great again by taking over. And that's an image of himself as a strongman, a dictator. It isn't the clear ideology of being a fascist or some other clear-cut ideological figure. Rather, it's a narrative of himself as being unique and all-powerful. He believes it, though I'm sure he's got doubts about it.”