W Quotes
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“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”
“When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.”
“When a child’s life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people and places, he will learn. When he feels safe and loved, he will learn. When parents begin to recover from their own ideas of what learning should look like (what they remember from school), then they begin a new life of natural learning, too.”
“When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.”
“When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.”
“When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.”
Source: Galatians
“When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.”
Source: Your Power In The Holy Spirit
“When a church caters to the masses they become a body of feel-good, hell-bound worshipers of false gods and not a people of the narrow way”
“When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.”
“When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.”
“When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.”
“When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.”
“When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.”
Source: A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects
“When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.”
“When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.”
“When a civil servant or politician acts out of self-interest, it's called corruption, but when a citizen does it, it's called public interest.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“When a civilization travels far enough on the road of time, individual and collective both disappear... form and content both disappear.”
Source: To Hold Up the Sky
“When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.”
“When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.”
Source: Politics
“When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.”
Source: The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun
“When a closed door comes your way, kneel and pray. Remember that God has the final say.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“When a clumsy cloud from here, meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away, and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little, and there you have your showers. He comforts her, they spark! That's the lightning. They kiss........Thunder.”
“When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.”
“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.”
“When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.”
“When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.”
“When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
“When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.”
“When a company (e.g. Enron) is calling for more environmental regulation, we need to look very carefully at what they might stand to gain from it… I don’t believe that there is some kind of grand conspiracy to promote scare stories about environmental crisis. I do believe that companies, the media, and politicians benefit from those stories. This confluence of interests goes a long way to explaining why the conversation surrounding climate change has become so detached from scientific reality.”
“When a company experiences new kinds of competition, it needs to urgently become a new kind of competition.”
“When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.”
“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?”
“When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.”
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.”
“When a company is implementing vital changes, it's going to include some discomfort. Anytime we forego the comfort of the known even in search of something better, it's still a little bit uncomfortable as we transition from one state of being to another state of being.”
“When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.”
Source: Secrets of Closing the Sale
“When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.”
“When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way”
“When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.”
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“When a confident woman allows you to take over the care of her, you’re both elevated to a higher level.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“When a constitution and its laws are no longer followed by a government, it falls on the governed to revolt in order to restore them.”
“When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.”
“When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.”
“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
“When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?”
“When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.”
“When a corrupt government fires all the good people, you are left with all the bad people.”
“When a corrupt ruler is given the seat of power, he will end up neglecting all the virtues of a true leader.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.”