W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.”
“With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results can be expensive.”
Source: Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
“With the present violent historical acceleration - each new generation of knowledge occurs every ten years - the day is close when everything I know will be completely obsolete (for all the good it did me!) and I will still be alive.”
Source: Memories of Underdevelopment
“With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for the debates. That's kind of a stretch; a rich white guy from Massachusetts playing a rich white guy from Massachusetts.”
“With the press there is no "off the record.”
“With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.”
“With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”
Source: The Deer Park: A Novel
“With the probable exception of the bond between husband and wife, every liaison between people in this society takes on some forms of this patron-client relationship”
“With the project where I'm making something with my own name, my main mission statement is honesty. I never want to hold back from what I'm saying for fear of showing it to people. At the same time, I try to take my own personal experiences and problems and wrap them around lyrics that are a little more universal and not naming names. I don't let it get that personal. That's not really a fear of over-sharing, it's just what makes a good song. I want to get people to listen to it and to find a universal aspect of what I'm trying to say.”
“With the prominent hood
The pygmy owl screeched loudly,
“Not yours,
Night is mine”
Source: I Named The Village
“With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
With the improper diet, no doctor can help”
“With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.”
“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”
“With the prospect of raids on London itself, U.S. ambassador Joseph Kennedy decamped. To the great disdain of many in London, he began conducting his ambassadorial affairs from his home in the country. Within the Foreign Office, a joke began to circulate: "I always thought my daffodils were yellow until I met Joe Kennedy.”
Source: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
“With the publication of this book we, as non-Jews, are doing our small part to stand up for the truth. So let us state unequivocally here and now: the Holocaust happened EXACTLY as per the history books. Period. Fact. No debate whatsoever.”
Source: Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
“With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.”
“With the quality of films it seems animation can do almost anything these days. It’s amazing what goes on. But for us it’s always about trying to tell a good story, with great characters. And that will probably always be the philosophy as far as Disney and Pixar is concerned.”
“With the question all wrong, how could they ever find the right answer?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.”
“With the raw-ribbed Wild that abhors all life, the Wild that would crush and rend,
I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I have learned to defy and defend;
Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out—yet the Wild must win in the end.”
Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
“With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.”
“With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.”
“With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.”
Source: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom
“With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.”
“With the recession, people are having to choose between their cable and their internet connection. And think about it.”
“With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.”
“With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.”
“With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.”
“With the Regional Office breathing down her neck... Corinne had wanted to keep the Drury case low-key, uncontroversial. since Craig's disappearance had set he alarm bells off, Anna was willing to be she'd change tactics, make a noisy show of taking command of the situation. For a while the name of the game at Guadalupe Mountains would be Cover Your Ass.”
Source: Track of the Cat
“With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.”
“With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.”
“With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.”
“With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.”
“With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.”
“With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.”
“With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.”
“with the right amount of light, even the darkest of darkness glows”
“With the right attitude, the impossible becomes merely challenging.”
“With the right attitude, you can turn any goal into reality!”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.”
“With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish”
“With the right books, we can change everything.”
Source: Paper and Fire
“With the right combination of Long Island blue heavens swimming in my bloodstream, I could be perfection.”
Source: Stalker Stalked
“With the right foundation, any woman can look like she naturally has even, perfect skin”
“With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.”
“With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.”
“With the right kinds of energy, every disease is curable.”
“With the right lingerie, you don't need clothes.”
“With the right Mindset...effective thinking is automatic.”