W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you just go around to that many galleries, and if you stay open, you're going to see work with enough energy and surprise. I don't think I've ever gone to the galleries without coming home thinking, Gee, I now know something I didn't know this morning.”
“While it may be an oversimplification, positive beliefs are more “simple” as they are more aligned with your true natural vibration and are expansive. Negative thoughts or negative energy compartmentalizes or rigidizes a non-expanding structure.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“While it may be difficult for us to control our emotional and affective responses, a fuller comprehension of how they affect our choices is certain to ameliorate our decisions.”
“While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
“While it may be easy to ‘blame’ others for your circumstances, your destiny lies solely in your hands.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the idea of a specific God.”
“While it may be tempting to surrender and accept eternal solitude, perseverance pays off when one discovers genuine companionship and experiences the satisfaction of accomplishing something worthwhile.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.”
“While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as we search, pray, and believe, we will often recognize things working together for our good in this life.”
“While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.”
“While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim.”
“While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.”
“While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“While it may have been true at the end of the nineteenth century to describe the Anglican Church as the Tory Party at prayer, it would be more correct to say, of its leaders today, that they represent the Labour Party trying to remember how to pray, while not really understanding the point of it.”
“While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.”
Source: One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
“While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you that I would never use curse words for shock value alone or to prop up a needy joke. We live in a world in which one Real Housewife of New Jersey seriously admonished another to "show some fuckin' class!" Enough said.”
Source: Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas
“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.”
“While it may seem uninhibited and respectable to say, "who cares what anyone thinks about me" and "I don't mind what anyone thinks about me," what you're really saying is no different from "I'm going to fool everyone." Especially in this case.”
Source: 鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]
“While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.”
“While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.”
“While it might make a noble standing stable, a label stands a lie away from libel.”
“While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.”
“While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental feelings about nature or the earth or whales or worry about the well-being of future generations, but simply because every drop of oil, every ton of ore, every shipment of wood saved is a cost reduction and money in the pocket.”
“While it must be acknowledged that modern political systems work well in a number of ways, especially compared to those systems that wholly suppress civil liberties, it is also true that our political culture and ways of thinking about politics remain starkly underdeveloped and suboptimal in many ways. At the level of our individual thinking, collective norms, and the overarching cultural frameworks with which we tackle politics, there is great potential to do better.”
Source: Reasoned Politics
“While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.”
Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
“While it's certainly true that raising children is a big job and certainly has emotional resonance, it's really hard to intellectually justify the belief that you're adding something important to the world by adding more people to pollute the planet and compete for opportunities that become more precious as the number of people vying for a chance grows.”
“While it’s easy to criticize terrible role models, it’s better to learn from them.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“While it's easy to dismiss and belittle a living woman who dares to be vocally critical or angry, it is much harder to silence a ghost: She has remarkable staying power.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“While it's important to care for others, your main responsibility is to care for yourself.”
“While it’s one thing to lose to a competitor, it’s quite another to beat yourself.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“While it's true that I am guided in life by my feelings and emotions, that certainly does NOT mean that I trust them.
Emotions are reactions to things based on all of a person's prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are.”
“While, it’s true that there isn’t a way to make yourself bulletproof from cyber attackers. There are many ways that you can minimize your risk of being a victim of a successful attack.”
Source: Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity
“While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.”
“While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one.”
Source: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs
“While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.”
“While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.”
“While it was true that I knew very few women, I was convinced that Anya must have been the loveliest of them all. I felt always vaguely disappointed every time I saw her eyes light up when she was in Robert's presence for that is when they shined the brightest. He could be wearing dirty clothes, be covered in filth and she'd still think him the greatest boy alive.”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“While it was true that Marshall Gu’s flute was a lethal weapon capable of besieging an army of thousands, it wouldn’t do to rely solely on the fear inspired by the Flower of the Northwest’s face and the piercing strains of his unholy demonic music.
“What does it matter how others treat you? If others respect you, revere you, does that make you invincible? If others distain you like a pair of tattered shoes, does that make you an actual fucking clod of rotten mud? What can some insignificant barbarian woman who’s been dead for about 800 years, or some obscure shamanic poison that disturbs one’s, do to you now?”
Source: Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang, Vol. 3
“While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature—those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.”
Source: Arabesque
“While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.”
Source: the new industrial state
“While it would be too reductive (but not wrong) to say Cervantes equates knight-errantry with religious belief, he does seem to insinuate a syllogism that goes: Chivalric novels are false; the Bible resembles those novels; therefore, the Bible is false. But Cervantes gleefully complicates matters by insisting repeatedly that Don Quixote is true, which he and everyone who reads it knows is untrue.”
Source: The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
“While it would have been easier to jump off a cliff, developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) was a problem that needed to be solved.”
“While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.”
“While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.”
“While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.”
“While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.”
“While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life”
“while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.”