W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.”
“While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.”
“While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.”
“While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.”
“While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.”
“While everyone wants to go to heaven, a man who wonders about hell and wants to go there is a true explorer and a brave man! And you know, it's like hell never touches such men, they go and come back safe!”
“While everyone was screaming in italics, the babies themselves seem to have done just fine. Despite their inability to do almost anything on their own, infants are far more flexible than they get credit for: within a few obvious parameters—food, shelter, love—they are astonishingly adaptive.”
Source: Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
“While everyone was worrying about the world turning into 1984 it turns out the world is actually Animal Farm.”
“While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.”
“While excellence is a wonderful ideal, perfectionism is a dysfunctional belief system. Many people openly admit that they are perfectionists, which is really an unconscious cry for help. Being a perfectionist is really stating that whatever we attempt to do will never be good enough. This is due to a mistaken belief that we are flawed and unlovable.”
Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.”
“While export spending boosts national income, we consider exports to be a cost in the sense that they deprive the domestic population of the use of the
real resources that are used up in the production of the goods and services sold abroad.”
Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.”
“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“While eyes are shut the pain will not subside,
They yearn to join with light that is outside;
It’s due to your eyes’ light’s attracting pull,
Which seeks light rays as soon as possible.
If your eyes feel some pain while open, then
When blocked of transient light, pain fills your eyes,
So you should open them, if you are wise...”
Source: The Masnavi, Book Two
“While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers.”
Source: All the Horses of Iceland
“While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.”
“While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.”
“While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.”
“While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.”
Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations
“While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.”
“While failure is a voyage of discovery, apathy is a voyage of defeat. I would rather fail than give up.”
Source: Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC): Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process Excellence
“While failure is important for success, take only as much failures as you can afford to, without losing all your happiness. Failing more than what you can withstand is a recipe for suffering.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.”
Source: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
“While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.”
“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
“While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.”
“While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.”
“While fate may present opportunities for the ambitious, it is ultimately the resourceful and adaptable prince who can bend fortune to his will. Do not rely solely on chance or the goodwill of others; rather, seize the initiative and forge your own path to greatness.”
Source: Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual
“While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.”
“While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“While fear is often associated with safety and caution, they are not the same.”
“While fear triggers the full response system at the moment of danger, anxiety triggers parts of the same system when a threat is merely perceived as possible. It is healthy to be anxious and on alert when one is in a situation where there really could be dangers lurking. But when our alarm bell is on a hair trigger so that it is frequently activated by ordinary events- including many that pose no real threat-it keeps us in a perpetual state of distress. This is when ordinary, healthy, temporary anxiety turns into an anxiety disorder.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“While feasting can enlarge the soul, feasting is only true feasting when it completes a fast. The man who feasts without cease is simply a glutton.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.”
“While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.”
“While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.”
“While fighting for liberation, it makes no sense for feminists to trample on gays, for gays to trample on the physically challenged, or for the physically challenged to trample on feminists. It also makes no sense for any of these social justice activists to willfully exploit factory farmed animals. Can we not at least avoid exploiting and dominating others while working for our personal liberation?”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy & happiness which should not hurt the beauty of their life. Don't prove that you are an artist just express your art, that's the love and life is...”
“While filming the movie “Rough Sex 2,” porn star Regan Starr described in horrific terms in an interview with Talk Magazine in February, 2001, “that while sex acts were performed on her, she was hit and choked until she couldn’t breathe. Other “actresses,” she said, “wept because they were hurting so badly.”
Source: Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
“While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.”
“While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.”
“While floor statements from today's [congressional] representatives are typically delivered to empty galleries and published into unread oblivion, legislative debates in the Reconstruction era were widely disseminated and closely observed.”
Source: The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the End of Reconstruction
“While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.”
“While focus has been on child exploitation and sexual abuse at a global, I cannot stop expressing the importance of having conversations within our very own families.
Conversations of actions.
Conversations of awareness.
Conversations of safety.
Conversations of protection.
Conversations of transparency.
Conversations of accountability.
Conversations of consequences.
Conversations of support.
Kids grow into adults and are often left to tackIe the effects of trauma on their own. When someone comes out, stop asking them why they waited. Or, call them a liar. Or, say they are crazy. Or, treat them like they are the abuser. Or, keep them ostracized as the outcast. These familial defense mechanisms only continue to add to the trauma and abuse.
We need to create a culture within our families where our children - and children turned adults - don't feel so voiceless and unprotected when confiding in their truth.
It's never too late to have these difficult conversations. Please have them.”
“While focusing on the present moment, we soothe our minds and construe our intuition and inner wisdom. Our mindfulness allows us to access lower levels of awareness and gain insight into our reflections and emotions. At the same time, it lessens overthinking and anxiety. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.”
“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”