W Quotes
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“When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.”
“When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.”
“When black America is on the move, America is on the move.”
“When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.”
Source: Marlene Dumas: suspect
“When black and white fight with each other, they both turn grey if spiritual awareness is not on either side. Then they both claim to be white and become an ugly shade of grey that is not found anywhere in nature except in human mind.”
“When black hides the white and simple color with its blackness one day with the sunlight and rainfall the white color will be revealed.”
“When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.”
“When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”
“When Black women stand up— as they did during the Montgomery Bus Boycott—as they did during the Black liberation era, earth-shaking changes occur.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.”
“When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.”
“When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.”
“When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.”
“When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.”
“When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.”
“When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.”
Source: Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14
“When blame has been assigned, the story is over.”
Source: Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.”
Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
“When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.”
“When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.”
“When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.”
“When blowing out someone’s candle you risk blowing out your own.”
“When blue-collar, white workers in middle America look at Donald Trump in his fill-fitting suit and baseball cap, with a physical image that is perhaps more like their own, they see a possibility that they could be him. Aside from his skin colour, Barack Obama, with his lean physique, good looks and charisma, hanging out with rock stars and movie stars, his life and what he stands for seems at a far remove. Except the reality is that he was raised without his father, cared for by his grandparents and moved around a lot as a child, meaning he has potentially much more in common with the Appalachian voters than Donald Trump. He lived and achieved the American Dream in arguably a more fundamental way than Trump did.”
Source: In America: Tales from Trump Country
“When blue skies turn green from lies
spoken repeatedly to propagandize
and politicize, then thoughts unwise turn
poisonous, warping what one doth sees,
thus rotting the mind’s ability to reason
and discern the truth from the disease.”
Source: AMULET: A Play
“When bluff masters rule. Deception becomes the truth.”
“When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.”
“When boasting ends, there dignity begins.”
“When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.”
“When Bob Hope tells a joke, his audience enjoys it far more than if it were being told by a comedian of lesser stature, not simply because Hope tells a joke exceedingly well but because his audience expects him to be funny, wants him to be funny and is rather flattered that he is being funny for them.”
Source: The Hustler's Handbook
“When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.”
“When bodies spring apart, because the air
Somehow condenses, wander they from truth:
For then a void is formed, where none before;
And, too, a void is filled which was before.”
Source: On the Nature of Things
“When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep them in the silent transfer of vows of the heart.
When bodies talk, a steady stare and firm glance becomes a rod of correction.
When bodies talk, they speak to us all in quiet whispers, heart-to-heart, and soul-to-soul, in soundless conversations.”
“When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.”
“When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.”
Source: Prayer: Asking and Receiving
“When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected to him in every city in the universe, assuring him that he always slept with his book 'Rights of Man' under his pillow and conjured him to honor him with his correspondence and advice.”
Source: The Life Of Thomas Paine, Author Of Common Sense, Rights Of Man, Age Of Reason, Letter To The Addressers
“When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.”
Source: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
“When bondage is built with billions of key strokes the death of freedom bit by bit may not be so obvious. The masters hold the keys to chains or networks, to the links and sites fashioned into our consciousness. While we may browse, it is as a domesticated animal.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“When boneheaded egomaniacs make a joke of liberty, revolution is our first amendment, mutiny our right.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”
“When Booker first started working for her a few years ago and was living in their home, she saw him cower with apprehension every time she snapped a new order or made him redo tasks more than once, twice, or three times. Now, she knew that he understood her ways better, her need for order, cleanliness, and strict attention to details. She felt he was beginning to realize just what this fifty-seven-year-old Yankee schoolteacher expected of her thirteen-year-old house servant and pupil. He began to appreciate the books from which she taught him after his morning chores were completed. She gave him a few to start his own library and found he stored them in old dry goods boxes in his bedroom.”
Source: The Viola Factor
“When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our body or soul go to heaven? What was the name of the book? The Da Vinci Code. Who is seated at the last supper? Well, as brilliant as Da Vinci was, he didn't know anymore about who was seated at the last super if there ever was a last super than you or I or Yogi Berra. Well, no one is bringing anything new to the table.”
“When books sweep the world with characters and plots that seem unutterably grim...you have to ask whether we willingly incorperate such material into our lives because we need more shadows, clouds, drama, or perhaps because vicarious exposure to such material equips us, psychologically, for potential exposure to the real thing. [p35, Chapter 1 Taking the rough with the smooth]”
Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
“When borders are drawn in blood, the wounds never truly heal.”
Source: Quote: +/-
“When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!”
“When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.”
“When {Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate and to really do things with matrices. So they had gone to Hilbert for help and Hilbert said the only time he had ever had anything to do with matrices was when they came up as a sort of by-product of the eigenvalues of the boundary-value problem of a differential equation. So if you look for the differential equation which has these matrices you can probably do more with that. They had thought it was a goofy idea and that Hilbert didn't know what he was talking about. So he was having a lot of fun pointing out to them that they could have discovered Schrödinger’s wave mechanics six month earlier if they had paid a little more attention to him.”
“When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.”
“When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.”