A Quotes
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“And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the help of Anatomicall Knives, and the light of Chymicall Furnaces, I study the Book of Nature, and consult the Glosses of Aristotle, Epicurus, Paracelsus, Harvey, Helmont, and other learn'd Expositors of that instructive Volumne; I find my self oftentimes reduc'd to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all.”
“And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost."
"And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." - Moroni”
Source: The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
“And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.”
Source: The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan
“And when you are being kissed like this, you are Christmas Day; you are the moon shot; you are field larks. My shoes were suddenly worth a million pounds, and my breath was the ethyl in champagne. When someone kisses you like this, you are the point of everything.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.”
“And when you are fighting for your dreams and the world is beating the life out of you; many times you might be tempted to try to take a shortcut. Asking yourself: "Isn't there an easier way?”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“And when you are kept from your home, no matter where you are, you are in a cage.”
Source: Terra Nova
“And when you are operating within your style, which is your world, which you operate in, then it also would make sense to you. Now, whether it makes sense to anybody outside is besides the point really. You just do it and then you find that other people kind of begin to relate to it and allow themselves to get into your way of thinking about things.”
“And when you are thus turned towards God, above all do not turn your back to yourself at all. Don't ask where you stand with God. The sadness of not being perfect and finding yourself a sinner is still a human sentiment.”
Source: The Gardens of God
“And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
“And when you call on some high official, imagine that you will not find him at home, that you will be shut out, that the door will be slammed in your face, and that he will ignore you. But if, in spite of all this, you really have to go, accept it and go without ever telling yourself, "it was not worth all that". That's what an ordinary person would do, someone upset by mere circumstances.”
Source: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
“And when you can't do nothing else - pray.”
“And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.”
“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.”
“And when you do ask, not everyone will come through for you, and that will be painful. But many people will. And by trusting them enough to ask, you offer them an extraordinary opportunity to do something important for someone they care about. Then one day, you may have the opportunity to return the favor.”
Source: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.”
“And when you fail, fail gloriously!”
“And when you feel the ache of unmet needs, may you turn inward with compassion, recognizing that you, too, are a vessel of great strength and resilience. There is a deep well within you, a source of light that can guide you through the darkest nights. Trust in this inner light, for it is your own, and it shines with a brilliance that no one else can dim.”
“And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.”
“And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.”
“And when you find the person you want to build a life with, do not look for fireworks. Look for a foxhole buddy. Look for someone who doesn’t flinch when the artillery starts falling. Look for someone who will stand back-to-back with you in the dark and hold the line. And when you commit to them, you commit in blood. You do not walk away when it gets boring. You do not walk away when it gets hard. You keep the wolves away.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“And when you finish reading, read some more.”
“And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
“And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!”
Source: Digital Fortress: A Thriller
“And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it’s small enough.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.”
“And when you have a bad attitude, bad things happen.”
“And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“And when you have waited—has it made you sure?”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“And when you lay in bed with your wife,
are you mentally there or with the women on TV?
Or the women who you've been intimate with though the screens?
You not only compare your wife to these women but also love her as though she was someone else
Physically present when making love to her but mentally absent from her
You kiss her lips while your heart kisses the "screen woman”
“And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.”
“And when you left you kissed my lips
You told me you would never ever forget these images”
“And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.”
Source: The Songlines
“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”
“And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.”
“And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.”
“And when you lose the best woman you ever knew because you failed to do anything but make her feel like shit...know that it was your own god damn fault because when you had her all she wanted was to love you and you did everything to show you didn't care. You did everything to kill that love until it finally disappeared. And the thing is, you'll be the one who despairs when you see another man cherishing the woman you refused to treasure despite her obvious wretched devotion.”
“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“And when you love people, you hate the fact that they’re being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the people given that, in the end, they basically gave it to you, because we are who we are because somebody loved us anyway.”
“And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.”
Source: Awakened: A House of Night Novel
“And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.”
“And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
But on you will go
though the weather be foul.
On you will go
though your enemies prowl.
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl.
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.”
Source: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“And when you're shooting at rocks, pushed aside, pulled back, you proceed. Follow your goal, slowly walk the, endure any adversity and success is inevitable. Then you look back, look at all of them, the needy, who are still standing in the same place and do the same to others. This time, you will extol, saying that they are responsible for your success. Forgive and feel sorry for yourself, have not helped you succeed, and they were left behind.”
Source: Nema šanse da ne uspem
“and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy”
Source: Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy
“And when you reach the place where this understanding overtakes you; that there is no one in the world that will ever love you with the force and power you can love yourself with. That no saviour in the form of a spouse or best friend is coming to make you complete and that you are your own saviour, your own best friend and perhaps the only saviour and best friend you will have, you will soar on wings of eagles and amazing things will happen.”