W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.”
“With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?”
Source: Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only
“With Uhuru [Kenyatta] running against [Mwai] Kibaki, the Kikuyus will be divided for sure.”
“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.”
“With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.”
Source: On War
“With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.”
“With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.”
“With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.”
“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.”
“With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.”
“With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."”
“With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.”
“With unity and liberty, businesses flourishes better than under tyranny or corrupted republics.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“With universal basic income for everyone, there was an endless supply of money for basic level simulations and there were plenty of jobs for those who wanted to work to upgrade their simulation. For a while, the only problem was decreasing populations as fewer people had the money, time or patience to raise children.”
Source: The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“With unshakeable faith, explore the hidden trails of some mountains. Step into them with unmatched grace.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.”
“With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.”
“With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.”
Source: Writings on Art
“With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.”
“With us, there were always too many false starts. I believe that what's meant to be usually has a way of working out... and with us, it never did. Call it timing, call it fate, call it what you want. It is what it is. Sometimes in the end, the girl doesn't always get the boy--and that's ok. Life goes on. You know better than anyone that some love stories never get their happy ending... but it doesn't make them any less of a love story though, does it? It doesn't make the love the two shared any less relevant.”
Source: Somewhere With You
“with us you are not just a number. but if you really want to work here, you better know how to count”
“With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.”
“With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.”
Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son
“With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.”
“With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.”
“With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.”
“With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.”
“With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
“With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.”
“With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.”
“With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next.”
“With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.”
“With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.”
“With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.”
“With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.”
Source: The Simple Way
“With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.”
Source: My American Journey
“With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!”
Source: The Life@work Book
“With vision we flourish.”
Source: Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth
“With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’”
“With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.”
“With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.”
“With voice acting, it liberates you to play characters you'd never do in a million years because you're physically not right. You can show up looking like hell, you don't have to memorize your lines because you can read them right off the page, and you get to play the most fun parts. You come in and you kick everyone's ass and you get your own ass kicked, and then you go home.”
“With voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read.”
“With Wallace, Ali became one of the best-travelled young Malay men of the time.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“With Wang Qiyao’s flowery apron around his waist and a pair of protective sleeves over his shirt, he brought the meal to Wang Qiyao’s bedside, his hair mussed up, his forehead oily and perspiring, his eyes aglow with excitement. Tears rolled down her cheeks and into her bowl as she ate. Kang Mingxun watched helplessly on one side, looking very much like a waiter on duty. Soon he too became teary. They could no longer put it off: a decision had to be made.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because it's not overt, it's hidden, not coming at you. Then you might cut through to some of this numbness and reach something profound and tragic.”
“With war, most people are heartless and less weighed as a ton of nothing.”
“With warm pleasantries, strangers become clients. With firm handshakes, contracts become signed.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
There's light above me by the shade I throw.”