W Quotes
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“When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?”
“When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.”
“When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.”
“When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.”
“When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. [Eric] Bristow is only 27.”
“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."”
“When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.”
Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
“When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.”
“When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.”
Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
“When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.”
“When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.”
“When all are eager for the sun to rise,
I grab the night and conjure up dawn.
Leave no corner of mindland unharvested,
Struggle isn't over till gloom turns to morn.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“When all are one sentience,
Language withers and fades away.
Let's sit together and speak in silence,
Let's be light to each other's way.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”
“When all becomes dark, did something horrible befall us or did we pull shades?”
“When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.”
“When all but hope is lost, then all is not lost.”
“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“When all candles are out, all cats are grey,
All things are then of one color, as who say.
And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire,
Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.”
“When all candles be out, all cats be grey.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.”
Source: Tricks
“When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.”
“When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.”
“When all combine without condescension, we shall witness God's face.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
“When all departments truly collaborate with IT to improve the organizational vision, transparency, and realization of leveraging IT as a competitive advantage versus just commodity, everybody wins.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.”
“When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.”
“When all else fail, philosophize.”
Source: Disgrace
“When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.”
Source: Johnny and the Bomb
“When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.”
“When all else fails, find a child to figure it out.”
“When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.”
“When all else fails, God never fails.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When all else fails, laugh at the quandary.
When all else fails, laugh at yourself.
When all else fails, love as is.”
“When all else fails, Mother Nature has provided you with a great social default for finding commonality with others. Since weather is a universally shared experience, it enables you to jump into a conversation with anybody and everybody. While discussing the weather may sound boring, trite, and predictable, it is a safe and the certain ice-breaker that can help you build commonality regardless of who you are addressing. As I write this, we have icy rain! It's never a boring topic.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When all else fails, shake up the system.
When all else fails, shake up your system--
stretch, run,
dance.
When all else fails, sing an anthem to the trees, the ground,
the distant view.”
“When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.”
“When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.”
“When all else fails there's always delusion.”
“When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.”
“When all else fails, try a different tool.
When all else fails, try a different methodology.
When all else fails, try a different objective.
When all else falls, ask for help.
When all else fails, find someone else to ask.
When all else fails, get a third opinion.
When all else fails, get another perspective.
When all else fails, get a research librarian to guide you to other tools, methodologies, perspectives, philosophies, objectives.
When all else fails, find a professional to do it.
When all else fails, find a child to figure it out.
When all else fails, weep, moan, and pound the walls.
When all else fails, unplug and plug back in.
When all else fails, shake up the system.
When all else fails, shake up your system--stretch, run,
go to the gym and punch a bag.
When all else fails, laugh at the quandary.
When all else fails, laugh at yourself.
When all else fails, light a scented candle
and watch the flame as you drink in the smell.
When all else fails, drink water.
When all else fails, immerse yourself in water--hot, cold, or hot then cold.
When all else fails, sing an anthem to the trees, the ground, the distant view.
When all else fails, dance a rhumba, dance a tango,
dance a forest witchie ritual.
When all else fails, take a nap.
When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.
When all else fails, try and figure out what's to be gained or learned if this was the way it absolutely needed to happen.
When all else fails, accept that this is the way it is.
When all else fails, love as is.
When all else fails, walk away.”
“When all else fails, try and figure out what's to be gained or learned
if this was the way it absolutely needed to happen.
When all else fails, accept that this is the way it is.
When all else fails, walk away.”
“When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.”
“When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.”
Source: O
“When all else fails, complicate matters”
“When all else fails, dream bigger.”
“When all else fails, fresh tactics!”