W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While for man, the physicality of woman fuels his sexual love for her, it was the sexual fulfillment from man that feeds woman’s love for him.”
Source: Crossing the Mirage - Passing through youth
“While for you I waited, to life I dreamed this,
for others - a memory - marvellous kiss,
soft your dreamy frame in my mid-summer shades,
you were right ahead, behind me - Heaven’s gates,
yet Heaven is surely right out of this world,
thus, you with, I’m left, in a dream, that unfurls…
Whenever I need a woman, like you, that is perfect,
I don’t wait to grow wings, for wings aren’t worth it,
I’m sure that whenever, succumb I, to death,
right with me you will be, in my last (smiling) breath…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”
“While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.”
“While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.”
“While [Frank H.] Young added, 'In a good modern layout the principles of all good layout still prevail . . . cohesion, legibility, movement, emphasis, simplicity, and continuity.”
Source: Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design
“While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.”
“While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.”
“While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.”
“While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.”
“While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”
“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”
Source: The Friendship of Christ
“While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite.”
Source: Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.”
“While futurists imagine multiple possible futures, quantum physicists research multiple present realities.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits”
“While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.”
Source: Read Me First: Android Game Development for Kids and Adults (Free Game and Source Code Included)
“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”
“While gazing at stars, I feel a charm arising within me. I never get bored when I look at them. I can keep looking at them entire night. I can give my all just to get this view.”
Source: A Kind Of Commitment
“While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.”
“While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.”
“While general memetic sets replicate primarily by using a host to infect other hosts with said meme, cultural and religious memetic sets primarily spread by influencing the fitness of any given host . . . Because culture can affect a person’s number of surviving offspring, traditional evolution (not just memetic evolution) shapes culture. This interplay allows complex behavior patterns to emerge among groups of people well before those behavioral instincts might otherwise biologically evolve.”
Source: The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.”
“While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things that matter...”
“While Geyer was on the German steamship to Rio de Janeiro, his co-workers struggled to cope with intense emotions. The day after forty-five miners died in the Roslyn, Washington, explosion, Philadelphia suffered a tragedy of their own—one that would rock City Hall and its police force to its core.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“While Ginger didn't like the evil-recipe days, she certainly loved the treat-making days. She liked rolling dough and cutting it into perfect shapes. She liked grating chocolate into curlicues and pouring syrups into lollipop molds.”
Source: Kiss and Spell
“While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“While God desires salvation for everyone, God owes salvation to no one.”
Source: A Hellacious Doctrine: A Defense Of The Biblical Doctrine Of Hell
“While God does want us to be open with others, he also encourages us to put boundaries in place as we do. He talks repeatedly about guarding our hearts. So what’s the difference? Hiding is a response out of fear, while guarding is a proactive choice to protect what matters most. In other words, we’re not to deliberately put something of worth where it won’t be valued.”
Source: You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be
“While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.”
“While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”
Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All
“While God's plan might be tender, loving, and good, the disappointment on the way to get there is real.”
Source: By Bread Alone: A Baker's Reflections on Hunger, Longing, and the Goodness of God
“While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”
Source: Poems
“While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.”
“While good leaders care about business impact, great leaders focus more on psychological impact”
“While good old-fashioned manners and etiquette have worked for centuries, new standards and expectations have come into play with the modern world. Behaviors which would have been appalling in the past are now socially acceptable.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”
Source: Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females
“While Grandma Welker didn't come right out and accuse Katie of being a witch, or something worse, it was easy to see that she wasn't comfortable around her.”
Source: The Girl with the Silver Eyes
“While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.”
Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge
“While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.”
“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.”
“While grief can be arduous and painful, it also holds the potential for profound transformation and meaning. Within the realm of grief, we discover wisdom, savor life’s precious moments, tap into our inner strength and resilience in the face of adversity.”
“While grief can feel isolating, it’s essential to remember that others have traversed similar terrains and understand the intricate nuances of the grieving process.”
“While grief invites us to feel the full spectrum of human emotions, it also invites us to deepen our love for ourselves. That means feeling exactly how we’re feeling in every moment. That means meeting and embracing the darkest, ugliest, most conventionally “unlovable” pieces of ourselves and acknowledging that yes, even grief belongs to us, too.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.”