W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win.”
“While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less likely it is to increase the deficit.”
“While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the while he was using his political connections to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and extra tax breaks for his companies. In other words, Trump was taking from America with both hands, and leaving the rest of us with the bill.”
“While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.”
“While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.”
“While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.”
“While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.”
Source: John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches
“While each Imposter (negative voices in your head) has negative aspects that impede you from living from your Authentic Soul, each also has its positive qualities. I call them Superpowers.”
Source: Write on: Spiritual Growth
“While each of these may be convenient at the time (and easier choices, culturally, than choosing menstrual retreat, natural birth, breastfeeding, mother-baby dependency, and unmedicated menopause), there is a downside. Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies’ natural path, we move farther away from our feminine roots. This can create distress within our bodies and can set the scene for further problems, physically and emotionally, for ourselves and our families. - this quote is from the Foreword to Wild Feminine; the foreword is by Sarah J. Buckley, MD”
Source: Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Root of the Female Body
“While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.”
Source: The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring
“While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain—or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.”
Source: After His Affair: Women Rising from the Ashes of Infidelity
“While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. "Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?”
Source: A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
“While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.”
“While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!”
“While eating with the crowd, you can neither concentrate on the food nor the crowd; you go back and forth between the crowd and the food as if you were swinging on a swing!”
“While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.”
Source: 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
“While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.”
“While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.”
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.”
“While edifying ourselves, we put our life in order and build it”
“While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.”
“While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.”
“While Eisai's Rinzai sect became known as
"shogun Zen" because it gained support from the militaristic Hojo government that established power in the thirteenth century, Dōgen's Sōtō Zen sect, sometimes referred to as "farmer's Zen," used a broad range of evangelical and public works projects to spread into the countryside, especially in the northern provinces. These included mass precept ceremonies and summer retreats for laypersons, as well as large-scale bridge building and irrigation installations. Through these methods, Sōtō Zen was especially successful in trying "to reach the social classes that had been unable to participate in the formal Buddhist funerals and memorial services of the older sects—Shingon, Tendai, and the Gozan Zen schools." Therefore, in many ways, Zen in medieval Japan exercised a commitment to social reform through the overcoming of discrimination and injustice and by increasing the base of those who benefited from the spread of the dharma.”
Source: Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?
“While emotions are great advisors, they are terrible rulers.”
“While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.”
“While enduring the human condition, may we find strength in its temporary nature.”
“While engaged in automatic writing I strain to create a protective personal haven, ferret out a padded cell where I can rapturously hold court with the voltaic cells of the self. I labor in solitary, transfixed in a suspended state of consciousness. Freewheeling writing creates a bridgeworks to the situs where hidden gems of insight and candid genuineness wait to be unsheathed by the penetrating beam of a reflective mind trolling for inspirational insight. Probing putative desires while contemporaneously fencing with a barrage of suppressed insecurities, requires piercing protective layers of denial and traveling with teratological demons to confront the monstrous self-destructive gene lodged in the deepest recesses of a confused psyche.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.”
“While enroute to project journey, the only question arises is: which methodology; the approach is pre-decided; Agile.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“While entrusting the intellectuals with a critical role in the forthcoming revolution, Bakunin at the same time cautioned them against attempting to seize political power on their own, in the manner of the Jacobins or their eager disciple Auguste Blanqui. On this point Bakunin was most emphatic. The very idea that a tiny band of conspirators could execute a coup d'état for the benefit of the people was, in his derisive words, a "heresy against common sense and historical experience." These strictures were aimed as much at Marx as at Blanqui. For both Marx and Bakunin, the ultimate goal of the revolution was a stateless society of men liberated from the bonds of oppression, a new world in which the free development of each was the condition for the free development of all. But where Marx envisioned an intervening proletarian dictatorship that would eliminate the last vestiges of the bourgeois order, Bakunin was bent on abolishing the state outright. The cardinal error committed by all revolutions of the past, in Bakunin's judgment, was that one government was turned out only to be replaced by another. The true revolution, then, would not capture political power; it would be a social revolution, ridding the world of the state itself.”
Source: The Russian Anarchists
“While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”
“While Euler’s identity is a purely mathematical truth, it can be interpreted symbolically in a theological framework. Some Christians might view it as a “fingerprint of God” in the structure of mathematics, pointing to an ordered and meaningful universe—a concept that aligns with belief in a divine creator like Jesus Christ. But this is interpretive, not doctrinal or factual.”
Source: Out of the Woods: A tale of positivity, kindness and courage
“While Europe appears to maintain more reticence embracing it, in America there is no question that work can only be discussed as a secular sacrament, with all the indignity one might expect from such a degrading genus. The Protestant qualifier to Protestant work ethic long ago dissipated, leaving the peculiarly American artifact of viewing one’s wages as a moral reward, one’s continuous employment as a state of grace and one’s retirement as an earthly paradise merited by one’s good works.”
Source: The Invention of Work
“While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]
“While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.”
“While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.”
“While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.”
Source: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel
“While, every day may not be good, there's something good in every day.”
Source: The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob
“While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well.”
“While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.”
“While every robot seeks emotional maturity, be the human who cherishes vulnerable love.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.”
“While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.”
“While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley”
“While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.”