W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.”
Source: Three Comrades
“With Blue here, he was beginning to feel as if possibly he'd overdone it with the helicopter. He wondered if it would make Blue feel better or worse to know that it was Helen's helicopter, that he hadn't paid anything today for the use of it. Probably worse. Remembering his vow to at least do no harm with his words, he kept his mouth shut.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.”
Source: Life Expectancy
“With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?”
Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology
“With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.”
“With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.”
“With bones of ships and soldiers at her feet.
With blood on her hands and nothing inside.”
Source: The Speaker
“With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.”
Source: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
“With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.”
“With books, you’re never lonely. Your friends are the best minds who have ever lived.”
Source: In Limbo
“With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...”
“With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“With both hands in his pockets, the masked monster eats up the space between us in seconds. Then he’s right in front of me, towering over me, his height invading the horizon and murdering its stars. Rough shadows fall on the mask, turning darker, nearly black in the dim light. The holes where his eyes should be are hollow, bottomless, even. Sharp fangs of horror sink into my skin. It doesn’t matter how much I tell myself to move. My mind has already turned against me and there’s no way to undo the spell.”
Source: God of Ruin
“With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.”
“With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side - either somebody has to take time off work or somebody has to pay someone to provide that care. In either it represents a big financial blow, and families just don't have the flexibility to deal with it.”
“With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.”
“With both Pinterest and Instagram, tiny teams generated huge value - not by cracking hard technical challenges, but by solving common interaction problems”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for interviews and research. Were you afraid? I wanted to ask the wolf. And if you were, how did you bear it?”
Source: Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
“WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.”
Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love
“With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.”
“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.”
Source: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
“With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“With brain power that has led man to the moon, we are still unable to decide the issue of war? They research for the cures of killer diseases, without looking towards the one that maims, kills and uproots whole nations? What a contradiction.”
Source: Edhi: A Mirror To The Blind
“With bread and wine you can walk your road.”
“With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.”
“With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.”
“With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.”
Source: This is Eric Sevareid
“With Brexit and the U.S. election, it's become clear that a lot of people have been thinking a certain way. Nothing has actually changed yet except the fact that it's been brought to light, which is quite a daunting, scary thing to realize.”
“With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.”
“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.”
“With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.”
“With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.”
“With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees - customer service is very important.”
“With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.”
“With buybacks, a CEO is making a rather incredible statement. She's saying: the market is wrong. It's valuing our company so incorrectly, and clearly has so little idea where we are heading that we're going to spend the company's precious cash on a bet that they're wrong.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon
in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace
in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.”
“With camera phones and, you know, iPad's and cameras at stoplights, it's like I just want to drive around with a bag on my head because I just feel like everyone's watching.”
“With cancer, the goal wasn’t to recover. It was simply to live — and once I did, I had to figure out what living even meant.”
Source: One in Eight: A Breast Cancer Journey and Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Workplaces
“With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.”
“With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.”
Source: What's So Great About Christianity
“With captivating illustrations and an imaginative storyline, The First Day of School by Dr. Terance Shipman is a must-have for any child who is about to start school.
Jedlie
Boston, MA USA”
Source: Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles: The First Day of School
“With care and consideration of your partner, falling in love does not have to be such a roller coaster; we just have to learn to handle our expectations.”
Source: The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .: A Guide to Life for a New Generation
“With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.”
“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!”
“With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.”
“With Caspian Marks, you could watch him in amazement.
He was worthwhile. Worth learning about, worth watching, worth getting to know. He was interesting and he was knowledgeable in a worldly way and he always had something—whether it was necessary or not—to say. He was pure and he was kind, genuinely kind. Sincerity encompassed him, warmth brimmed his soul, and tenderness flooded his touch.”
“With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses