W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.”
“While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.”
“While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“While your children are only born once, the process of birthing something into them happens every day thereafter.”
“While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.”
“While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.”
“While your country is at war, if you are contemplating the secrets of the universe in a boat in the middle of a lake, people will never understand you, because dealing with universal great ideas rather than engaging in primitive and irrational local affairs like wars disturbs especially underdeveloped minds!”
“While your country is going backwards at great speed, you must run forward at a much greater speed so that you don't get dragged backwards with your country!”
“While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.”
“While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.”
“While your knees are still willing, climb those mountains and experience their tranquillity. Make the most of your strength and vitality.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?”
Source: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
“While your passion gives you energy, your void sucks the life force out of you like a vampire, leaving you feeling depleted and disengaged.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“While your principle represents how you expect people to behave and your passion informs what you’re motivated to do, your purpose underscores why these two are so imperative: because it brings about the desired state of being you long for.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“While your wants get you into conflicts, only your wants can get you out of them.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“While your workplace might not be your favorite place to be. God cares about your work ethic. Because of this, your leadership in your workplace should reflect Him.”
Source: You Are A Leader: Understanding Your Circle Of Influence
“While youth has its advantages, you are green to the ways of business.”
Source: Immoral Origins
“While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.”
Source: Barely Composed: Poems
“While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.”
“While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.”
“While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal when it shall have reduced ultimate laws to one or two, the necessity of which lies outside the sphere of our cognition. These ultimate laws-in the domain of physical science at least-will be the dynamical laws of the relations of matter to number, space, and time. The ultimate data will be number, matter, space, and time themselves. When these relations shall be known, all physical phenomena will be a branch of pure mathematics.”
“While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.”
Source: The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark
“Whilst a level playing field cannot be guaranteed, one thing that is guaranteed is your fair share of challenges. It’s not a matter of IF they come, but WHEN you will encounter them.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain”
“Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The outcome, though, is the same.”
“Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment”
“Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms
And flames laid waste our world,
All that was left me was a little garden
And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.”
Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942
“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”
“Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)
“Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.”
“Whilst DID can be diagnosed with the presence of only two or more distinct parts/'self-states", survivors of chronic and complex abuse, or of organized or ritualized abuse may have many, many more parts. This is called "polyfragmentation" - quite literally "many fragments".”
Source: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Whilst he sat by his bed, ministering to him with the care of a son, he dwelt with melancholy delight on his revered features, and listened to his languid voice with those tender associations which are dear to the heart, though they pierce it with regretful anguish.”
Source: Thaddeus of Warsaw
“Whilst I’ll take any risk that I must, I’ll take none that I needn’t.”
Source: Captain Blood
“Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.”
Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“Whilst I'm here, I'll always do the best I can.”
“Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.”
“Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.”
“Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.”
“Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir
“Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.”
“Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!”
“Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.”