W Quotes
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“When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.”
“When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?”
Source: The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories
“When a scientist works in his laboratory, he does not smoke, he does not eat sweets, and does not listen to the radio. He abstains not because he thinks that these things are sins, but because he knows that they impede the perfect concentration of his mind on the object of his study. It is much the same in Zen Discipline: the observance of this discipline must help the practitioner to live in Awareness of Being; it does not lead to moral objectives.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?”
“When a scream is heard, wait...for silence is our assurance of tolerability.”
Source: The Land of Ick and Eck: Harlot's Encounters
“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.”
“When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.”
“When a seed or tree is first planted, they do not produce flowers or fruit. They must first develop maturity and grow. They must also receive sustenance, including water and food. Once they have rooted and develop strength, only then will they begin to produce.”
“When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.”
“When a seed starts fearing the soil, it runs to the lab to become a hybrid.
Seed is you. Soil is your inner world. Lab is society.”
“When a self-centered person looks at the world through the lens of his perspective, he finds himself victimized by every person around him.”
Source: Quantraz
“When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.”
“When a sense of emptiness and hopelessness grips you, try being useful. Don’t ask what’s in it for you. Just be useful. In any context in Life, no matter what you are going through and how challenged you are, you can always be useful. So, try being useful to someone, in whatever small way. Then see how your Life transforms magically. Your self-worth is always a function of how useful you are to the world, to your world. It is not about what you have for yourself, it is all about how much of yourself that you are giving to others.”
“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.”
Source: The woman in white
“When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. As far back as the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled in Strauder v. West Virginia that excluding black people from jury service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward. In 1945, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas statute that limited the number of black jurors to exactly one per case. In Deep South states, jury rolls were pulled from voting rolls, which excluded African Americans. After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be "intelligent and upright" to exclude African Americans and women.
In the 1970s, the Supreme Court ruled that underrepresentation of racial minorities and women in jury pools was unconstitutional, which in some communities at least led to black people being summoned to the courthouse for possible selection as jurors (if not selected). The Court had repeatedly made clear, though, that the Constitution does not require that racial minorities and women actually serve on juries—it only forbids excluding jurors on the basis of race or gender.”
Source: Just Mercy
“When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!”
“When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.”
“When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.”
“When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.”
“When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.”
“When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'”
“When a shrine, a temple, an altar room, a church, a sacred place of nature becomes legendary for a miracle by a prophet or a saint took place there; people flock there in search of the miraculous. Tell me, my child, have you found what you were in search of?”
Source: A Thousand Names
“When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.”
“When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.”
“When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.”
“When a silverback gorilla dies of Ebola, he does it beyond the eyes of science and medicine. No one is there in the forest to observe the course of his agony, with the possible exception of other gorillas. No one takes his temperature or peers down his throat. When a female gorilla succumbs to Ebola, no one measures the rate of her breathing or checks for a telltale rash. Thousands of gorillas may have been killed by the virus but no human has ever attended one of those deaths - not even Billy Karesh, not even Alain Ondzie. A small number of carcasses have been found, some of which have tested positive for Ebola antibodies. A large number of carcasses have been seen and reported by casual witnesses, in Ebola territory at Ebola times, but because the forest is a hungry place, most of those carcasses could never be inspected and sampled by scientific researchers.”
Source: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.”
“When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!”
“When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.”
“When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.”
Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES
“When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.”
“When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.”
Source: Traffic
“When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.”
Source: Nexus
“When a situation goes from bad to worse, Faith keeps believing in God until victory is achieved”
Source: Faith Secrets: Learn How to Please God With Your Faith
“When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.”
Source: Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating
“When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.”
“When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper, worn finer by the friction of history. "So you were slaves? So what?" They whisper, like it's nothing. But to the people who live through a slave rebellion, both those who take their dominance for granted, until it comes for them in the dark, and those who would see the world burn before enduring one moment longer in their place.
That is not a metaphor, Essun. Not hyperbole. I did watch the world burn.
Say nothing to me of innocent bystanders, unearned suffering, heartless vengeance. When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”
“When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.”
“When a small child calls out, "I want bread! I am hungry," does his mother not...prepare him something to eat? Likewise, if all day we call out, "We want to be saved!...Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us." will Christ not send us His mercy?”
Source: Daily Quotes from "Words of the Heart" by Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou
“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”
“When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.”
“When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?”
“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”
Source: La Région du cœur et autres textes
“When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, "That little thing did all that?" Simplicity is about the unexpected pleasure derived from what is likely to be insignificant and would otherwise go unnoticed. The smaller the object, the more forgiving we can be when it misbehaves.”
Source: The Laws of Simplicity
“When a smart woman decides, to walk away, she has already considered what is at stake if she stays.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.”
Source: To hear the angels sing: an odyssey of co-creation with the devic kingdom
“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”