W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While his parents never stopped being enigmas to him, Estefania's physicality felt graspable to him, a promise that would not withdraw itself. In Estefania, he saw a world to be painted.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.”
“While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.”
“While history may never repeat itself, "man," as Voltaire once observed, "always does.”
Source: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death
“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”
“While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.”
Source: Foch - The Man Of Orleans
“While holding desire to walk together with someone, one must possess the art and aptitude of walking together.”
“While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.”
“While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.”
“While homeschooling, we host the power to truly raise empathetic, charitable, pillars of the community.”
Source: Homeschooling on a Budget
“While hope is beautiful, it’s action that brings the harvest.”
“While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire may symbolize our horror of both life and death, but none of us has ever been uprooted by a symbol. The zombie may conceptualize our sickness of the flesh and its appetites, but no one has ever been sickened to death by a concept.”
Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
“While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.”
“While hugging a tree, I had this thought... People used to tell me I was too picky. People told me I should « lower my expectations »... But... Why should we? What if... I raised them?
I'm amazed by how much people are portraying themselves miles from where they really are. And it goes in both ways; some say they have gone much further than the path they actually went, and some say they have gone much less than the path they actually went.
Remember that standing in your truth is also to be aware of your true value and recognizing the journey you've been through to acquire that said value.
Acknowledge your worth,
give yourself the love you deserve, and you'll come closer of standing in your own truth, at a pace so fast it defies the speed of light.”
“While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.”
Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“While humans have the propensity to develop a suite of prosocial behaviors, they are also capable of developing antisocial behavior, engaging in substance abuse, experiencing depression, and bearing children at an early age...Young people who develop aggressive behavior tendencies are likely to develop problems with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; to fail academically; to have children at an early age;
and to raise children likely to have the same problems.”
Source: The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
“While Humans of Cannabis in a Renaissance of Hope is filled with stories of hope, it is also a reminder of the work that remains. Thousands of people remain incarcerated in the United States for cannabis-related offenses, even as legalization sweeps across the country. The fight for justice and equity is far from over.
My hope is that this book inspires readers to see cannabis not as a divisive issue but as a unifying force. Whether you are passionate about medical miracles, criminal justice reform, or community healing, these stories demonstrate the profound impact of this plant.”
Source: Humans of Cannabis in a Renaissance of Hope
“While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“While humility feels weak, the truth is that humility is a sign of great strength. Humility is about putting ego aside. The word humility comes from a Latin word humilitas, which means grounded or low. When we are "grounded", we aren't easily swayed. We stand firm in who we are, who we belong to, and who we are committed to be going forward. A grounded person isn't looking for recognition because she is at peace with her worth in God's eyes.”
Source: No More Perfect Moms: Learn to Love Your Real Life
“While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.”
“While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.”
“While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.”
“While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.”
“While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.”
Source: The conscience of a majority
“While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.”
“While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.”
“While I am alive, I intend to live.”
Source: Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty
“While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.”
“While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.”
Source: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”
“While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.”
Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals
“While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.”
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!”
“While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.”
“While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.”
“While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I know that my head and my heart, my young family's future, and our unfinished work all remain firmly in the State of California - not Washington D.C. Therefore I will not seek election to the U.S. Senate in 2016.”
“While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.”
“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.”
“While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.”
“While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.”
“While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.”
“While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.”
“While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.”
“While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.”
“While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.”
Source: Core of Conviction: My Story
“While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.”
“While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.”