W Quotes
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“When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice.”
“When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“When a high altitude worker is experiencing hallucinations and visions, they are at serious risk of developing diseases.”
“When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.”
“When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.”
“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”
Source: The Spiritual Interpretation of History
“When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.”
“When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.”
“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
“When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.”
“When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.”
“When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. The horse partook of the jockey's cunning, the jockey partook of the horse's supreme power. For the jockey the saddle was a place of unparalleled exhilaration, of transcendence.”
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.”
“When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.”
“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
“When a house falls apart, one cannot live their entire life under the open sky, merely complaining about it; finding shelter is essential. This is the truth, and it's the right thing to do.”
Source: अर्थ [Artha]
“When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.”
“When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.”
“When a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.”
“When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.”
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she is often made to feel that this is a mark of social inadequacy and that there is something comical about it. The younger the human being, the more humorous it becomes. So that humans whose inclination it is to think and speak in this way become self-conscious from an early age, and a kind of minstrelisation creeps in.”
Source: Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
“When a human being has been taken over by their inner rage it can be very distressing for those around them and unless they are able to remain calm, present and conscious, their inner rage will also be ignited with sometimes devastating results.”
Source: Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace
“When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying..
The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why...”
“When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.”
“When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.”
“When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”
“When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.”
“When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.”
“When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.”
“When a human lighthouse sees you in the midst of your storm, it points you toward safety and protection. In doing so, it also sends you and uncompromising message of belief: Yes, the situation is difficult, but you are not alone. I’m standing right here with you, and I know the way home.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“When a human's tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster”
“When a human's tears finally dry up forever, they transform into a monster.”
“When a humble
flower in the crannied wall is understood, the whole
universe and all things in it and out of it are understood.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.”
“When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.”
“When a husband loses his wife, they call him a widower. When a wife loses her husband, they call her a widow. And when somebody’s parents die, they call them an orphan. But there is no name for a parent, a grieving mother, or a devastated father who have lost their child. Because the pain behind the loss is so immeasurable and unbearable, that it cannot be described in a single word. It just cannot be described.”
Source: The Other Side of the Bed
“When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.”
“When a husband treats his wife like a lady, she remains a lady. When a wife treats her husband like a gentleman, he remains a gentleman. Let your marriage remain what God intended it to be”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language”
“When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.”
“When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.”
“When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.”
Source: Poor White
“When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man”
“When a joker dies, the joke remains.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“when a journalist from the West asks us questions, it is seldom in order to help us. [...] For the native, objectivity is always directed against him.”
Source: The Wretched of the Earth