W Quotes
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“When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.”
Source: Wonder, Hope, Love, and Loss: The Selected Novels of Gene Stratton-Porter
“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“When any new monarch ascends his throne some changes are made due to the exigencies of the time, others merely because of different interests, beliefs, friends, and favourites.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.”
“When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.”
“When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.”
“When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...
“When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy. It's actually effortless - it's a flow.”
“When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author
“When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.”
“When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.”
Source: Moral Philosophy
“When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.”
“When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.”
“When any person attempts to force another human being how to speak or act without verifiable legal justification, they are tyrants. No matter how well-meaning tyrants they might be. Individual rights are more important than any groups feelings.”
“When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
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“When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.”
Source: Enchiridion
“When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.”
Source: The Belton Estate
“When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.”
“When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.”
“When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.”
“When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.”
Source: Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”
Source: Persuasion: An Annotated Edition
“When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.”
Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.”
Source: Outrage
“When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.”
“When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.”
“When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.”
“When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.”
“When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.”
“When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.”
“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.”
“When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right”
“When anybody that we love very much goes away, how sacred their last words seem, and sometimes the only way in which we can console ourselves at all for their absence, is by going and doing something for them, so as to feel connected to them still.”
Source: Nothing to Nobody
“When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”
“When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.”
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”
“When anyone asks you to tone it down, to make yourself small so those around you will feel more comfortable, don't listen. Instead, make your gifts so loud that they can't ignore you.
I will not be ignored. Ever again. And these words on the page are the echo of my voice.”
Source: I'm That Girl: The Heartfelt Memoir from Olympic Gymnast Jordan Chiles
“When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.”
“When anyone calls you out for something you have done in your life and you're just on a journey to be authentic, to live in your own skin better, man, it makes you feel extremely special. I think that any time you're making huge steps in your life - I always say I need lots of hugs to feel special.”
“When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.”
“When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.”
“When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.”
“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”
“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”