W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women?”
“With joy in every task and whimsy in our hearts, we are the Dollmakers, it is WHO we are.”
“With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.”
“With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden.”
Source: Kipnuk's Joke Book for Kiddies
“With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.”
“With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.”
“With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer.”
“With just a tap on the gas, the car flew off of the road and skidded sideways into the encompassing woods. And I felt the sudden impact as the tires scraped against mounds of dirt, buried roots and jagged stones.
The blood-red moon lightly broke through the scattered leaves above us as we bounced among the hidden marshes that could have stretched for miles. But I had no recollection of time because everything, the sounds and the surrounding scenery swept by so quickly.
Gripping the steering wheel, his feet on the pedals, spine arched, and my hair whipping my face in the wind from the freshly broken glass on my passenger-side-window I couldn’t help but smile with the childish pleasure of being hurtled through the air as if we were on a rollercoaster built for two.”
Source: FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster
“With just a whisper of my mind, I moved mountains.
Imagine the storms when I speak in full.
One percent of thought,
and the world already shifts.”
“With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.”
“With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This was my parents' life. My mother had sat in handcuffs; my father had once worn an orange jumpsuit like the dozens that sat folded in our wardrobe department. For the other actors and me on our show, this was all fantasy, the re-creation of a world we knew little about; for Mami and Papi, it could not have been any more real or painful...I've had so many scenes in which Flaca & I are doing the dirty work, like cleaning the kitchen or mopping the floors, which is when I think of my parents most. Long before they ended up in prison, they'd spent years handling the nastiest jobs, the ones often avoided by others. Manual labor. Low pay. No respect. They must've felt so trapped. It must've been so hard for them to maintain their dignity when others looked down on them or, worse, didn't see them at all.”
Source: In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
“With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.”
“With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing philosophy of the universe through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call stereotypical repetition.”
“With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!”
“With Kant, we could say that telltales act in accordance with the categorical imperative, fulfilling a moral duty. They choose to expose the truth for the sake of a higher ethical principle, even if it comes at great personal cost. ("Alert. High noon.")”
“With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.”
“With Keith's [my fiance] murder, I was changed. I thought I would be a prosecutor forever, but there were so many days when I would leave the courtroom during a trial, and go down the hall to the ladies' room, and go into a little stall, and cry.”
“With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.”
“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.”
“With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.”
“With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.”
“With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.”
“With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2”
“With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.”
Source: Hulaki
“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“With kisses like that, I wish this was the Universe where you were my soulfinder.”
Source: Seeking Crystal
“With kisses your mouth taught me
my lips came to know fire.”
Source: Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems
“With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained”
“With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.”
“With knowing comes caring.”
“With knowledge being universally accessible, there will be no excuses for non-performance.”
“With knowledge comes more doubt.”
“With knowledge grows doubt.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.”
“With knowledge of the past, comes wisdom of the future and with wisdom comes knowledge.”
“With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.”
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.”
“With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.”
“With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.”
“With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.”
“With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.”
“With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.”
“With languages, you are at home anywhere”
Source: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”
Source: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
“With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.”
“With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.”
“With laughter and mirth spent in the shadows of
a good company.
Of friends and family.
May your nights be spent.
May all your nights be spent.
--- Good times.”
Source: A poem is a brave thing: Contemporary Poetry on Healing, Heartache, and the Courage to Begin Again
“With leaders and visionaries, we observe the ego as a mighty vessel, steering through the seas of societal change, powered by the winds of essence, a force of unwavering purpose and authenticity. Their legacies, etched in the annals of time, remind us that when ego serves essence, the impossible becomes possible, and the world itself transforms.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power