W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With a little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio”
“With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“With a little effort, she could get up by herself”
Source: The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.”
Source: How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World
“With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.”
“With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.”
“With a little more help from our friends the Cape of Good Hope is almost rounded.”
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy.”
Source: A Christmas Sermon
“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.”
Source: November
“With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.”
“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”
Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“With a little sadness, I now saw I'd come to dread and resent books, every last one. It was a loss. Opening a book had always been like opening a window into a new and mysterious world. When I was a child my books were my best friends. ... Books had been the most lasting, profound relationship in my life. I'd long bought and sold a few books for extra money. But once I'd started selling them out of desperation, not luck or love, I'd come to wordlessly feel like even my love of books--like everything else I'd loved--had turned on me and become ugly.”
Source: The Book of the Most Precious Substance
“With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now”
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
“With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.”
“With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.”
“With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.”
“With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.”
“With a long distant friend, I enjoy changing this obstacle into an opportunity by creating annual 'frienditions' to see and do something new and different together.”
Source: Friendship Interrupted: Challenges and Practical Solutions - What You Can Do
“With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.”
“With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.”
“With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.”
“With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.”
“With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.”
“With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.”
“With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.”
“With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's second movie, Daddy and Them, to just a bunch of movies that I have done have been comic, and they're usually from a cynical kind of pessimistic point of view which is probably my sense of humor, and this is a part of myself in everybody that I play.”
“With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.”
“With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.”
“With a loving heart
Forgiveness can begin
To cleanse and restore
your spirit
NDC”
“With a low sound, he moved against her so that her backside was flush with his hips and she could feel every inch of him through his boxers.
There were a lot of inches.”
Source: Star Crossed
“With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.”
Source: Decision to Love
“With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.”
“with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.”
“With a meticulous attention to each ingredient, an honoring to every step of our detailed process,
and a commitment to ensure the quality at every stage from preparation to presentation, Tres Amigos is creating, grilling and serving with honor, authenticity and love.”
“With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.”
“With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of provocations, we have to support and endure the flights over our territory.”
“With a million blessings upon your fingertips,
touch the world.”
“With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.”
“With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.”
“With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.”
“With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.”
“With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?”
“With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.”
“With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.”
“With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”
Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“With a new found confidence, Briston comes alive. "Then we have to do something. We need to call the police, or the swat team, maybe the military."
"Yeah, and why we're at it, why don't we send a prayer up to Heaven and tell the other angels to go ahead and take our names off the eternal guest list.”
Source: Broken Faith
“With a new morning comes a new mercy”
“With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.”