W Quotes
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“When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear?”
Source: The Last of the Firedrakes
“When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.”
Source: Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook
“When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.”
“When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.”
“When dignity and ethics become a part of our lives, we become a part of rebalancing society. When we move beyond what controls us, we take control of our lives.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“When dim-witted and irresponsible people prattle on, point a quivering finger at me, clench their teeth and shout, “Mark my words,” the genius of white-out becomes apparent.”
“When dinner was just about ready, [Mother] would go freshen up, changing clothes and putting on makeup. When one of my sisters once asked her how come she "got ready" and changed clothes right before dinner, Mom smiled and said, "Because my husband is coming home." [Dick Amman]”
Source: The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort
“When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.”
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
“When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.”
“When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.”
Source: Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
“When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When disappointment or tragedy or suffering strikes, we have a decision to make: Will we turn away from God, or will we turn toward Him? Which road will we take? One road leads to doubt, anger, bitterness, fear, hopelessness, and despair.
The other leads to hope, comfort, peace, strength, and joy.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.”
“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore protective breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.”
“When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.”
Source: The Secret to True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow
“When discipline leaves a church, Christ goes with it.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.”
Source: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
“When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.”
“When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.”
“When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!”
“When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said, "I was just whispering in her mouth"”
“When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.”
“When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.”
“When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.”
“When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.”
“When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.”
“When disposition wins us, the features please.”
“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”
Source: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
“When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.”
Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate?”
Source: America and the young intellectual
“When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“When distressing realities flood the banks of our firepower, smothering our daily living, and various events keep rushing into our lives through infringement, only the magic of imagination will sharpen perceptual acuity and restore the sparkle of our buoyancy. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.”
“When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...
It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...”
“When diversity levels were small, we could all be cute and posture about how open-minded and accepting we were. Now that diversity is replacing us and acting against us, we are finally forced to confront what was always a suicidal illusion.”
“When divine consciousness enters, the shift occurs and you will be engulfed by what will feel like the greatest love imaginable – a love in which your soul realigns with your spirit and they meet together as one.”
“When Divine is awakened, so too are the forces of evil. And these two forces will clash as it has been since the beginning…”
Source: The Companions
“When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.”
“When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.”
“When DNA shows you've worked more than 10 years with your 2nd cousin once removed, you can't help but see its use in family research.”
“When do any of us ever do enough?”
“When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.”
“When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.”
“When do I get one of those handlebars?”
Source: Cleftlocke
“When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone - or text! - is being knowingly changed. Fortunately, this has happened only once. Next time I would say No earlier, and definitively. Otherwise, ultimately, the only No you have is No, you can't open the play. And that No is very very hard to say.”
“When do I stop saving for that rainy day my parents told me about fifty years ago?
'Cause it has been raining buckets for awhile”
“When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“When do they turn the streetlights on?
Does each streetlight have a separate switch?
Where did all the choo-choo trains go?
Why don't people just draw their own money?
Who decided that red means stop and green means go?
Is there only one moon?
Are all car honks the same?
How do the police stop trees from growing in the middle of the street?
Do people paint their own cars?
What is a fire hydrant?
Why don't people whistle when they walk?
Where do airplanes live when they are not flying?”
Source: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend