W Quotes
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“When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?”
“When corruption is the priority, honesty becomes evil.”
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.”
Source: Galloway
“When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.”
“When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.”
“When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.”
“When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over. The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can’t get through to one another. Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal.”
Source: Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time
“When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.”
Source: Politics
“When couples start a family, they sacrifice personal love for the greater responsibility of raising their children into good human beings. Nothing should distract them from that goal until their kids are independent.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”
“When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.”
“When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.”
“When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.”
“When Covid hit the headlines, all they needed to do was take down the internet for a short time. With a deadly disease spreading via the mainstream media, the people would have panicked and flocked to get their poisonous injections on mass. It would have been game over for humanity. But there was a problem with that plan. The internet is a key part of their long-term plan, the New World Order with one government and one army. To take down the internet may have negatively affected peoples’ decisions to embrace AI, especially implanted computer chips for shopping and freedom of movement, plus a central bank digital currency.”
“When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.”
“When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“When creating a smell, I go for subtle, clean, crisp, light fresh alluring fragrances that must evoke timeless elegance and a quiet sophistication.”
Source: Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.”
“When creating cow milk, Mother Nature was thinking about not only the nutritional needs but also the digestive capabilities of a calf, not those of a human being.”
“When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.”
“When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity”
“When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”
“When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.”
“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”
“When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.”
Source: The Global Fourth Way: The Quest for Educational Excellence
“When credit for our work is given to others, we became angry; similarly God becomes angered, when credit for God's work given to others.”
“When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“When Creep remained prone, Hottie turned to her, nostrils flaring. The unleashed violence stirred something in Eve she didn't understand--something primal. She absently massaged her sore arm, holding Hottie's gaze. He was dangerous and sexy.
Is he a knight in shining armor or an asshole in aluminum foil?”
Source: Meeting the Past
“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.”
“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“When criminals become king,
citizens must become kaiju.
When terrorists become gods,
citizens gotta be Godzilla.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“When crises hail, they hail in abundance to distract you and save you from being totally devastated by only one of, maybe, an insignificant cause.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“When crises hit the South, the masters of the international economy turn to the IMF solution. The costs are transferred to the public, which had nothing to do with the risky choices but is now compelled to pay the costs: the poor countries are instructed to raise interest rates, slow the economy, pay their debts (to the rich), privatize (so that the Western corporations can buy their assets), and suffer. The instructions for the rich are virtually the opposite: lower interest rates, stimulate the economy, forget about debts, consume, have the government take over (but don’t “nationalize”—the takeover is a temporary measure to hand it back to the owners in better shape). And the public has almost no voice in determining these outcomes, any more than poor peasants have a voice in being subjected to cruel structural adjustment programs.”
Source: Hopes and Prospects
“When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.”
“When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.”
“When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.”
“When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.”
“When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.”
“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“When critics like Matthew Arnold, for example, suggest that his poetry is deficient in elaborate thought, they only prove, as Matthew Arnold proved, that they themselves could never be great poets. It is no valid accusation against a poet that the sentiment he expresses is commonplace. Poetry is always commonplace; it is vulgar in the noblest sense of that noble word. Unless a man can make the same kind of ringing appeal to absolute and admitted sentiments that is made by a popular orator, he has lost touch with emotional literature. Unless he is to some extent a demagogue, he cannot be a poet. A man who expresses in poetry new and strange and undiscovered emotions is not a poet; he is a brain specialist. Tennyson can never be discredited before any serious tribunal of criticism because the sentiments and thoughts to which he dedicates himself are those sentiments and thoughts which occur to anyone. These are the peculiar province of poetry; poetry, like religion, is always a democratic thing, even if it pretends the contrary.”
“When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.”
“When critics mock students for wanting safe spaces, they often argue that political correctness is undermining education and that students today are "too sensitive." Rarely do I ever hear any curiosity about what students are seeking shelter from; when my friends and I peered around the corners of our sprawling campus, dissenting opinions were the least of our worries.”
“When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.”
“When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.”
“When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.”
“When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.”
“When crossing a river in bright moonlight, I love to see the water scatter in showers of crystal beneath the oxen's feet.”
Source: The pillow book
“When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.”