W Quotes
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“When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.”
“When enraged, some divorced borderlines may deprive their children of contact with their father either to punish him or the children.”
Source: Understanding the Borderline Mother
“When Enrique had realized that Carolina might not be going home for Christmas Eve, he had snuck away to the gift shop in Carmel to get her a present. There hadn't been too many options, but he purchased a pretty butterfly necklace with matching earrings.
Once they were alone in the room, he took out the small wrapped box.
Her eyes lit up. "Enrique! You didn't have to get me anything."
He grinned. "I know. But I wanted to. Open it."
She carefully unwrapped the box. "Oh, mariposas! I love these. Gracias."
"You know, the butterfly represents rebirth. Carolina, you can do anything. I know you are struggling with what is going on with your family, but I want you to know that you are amazing, and I believe in you.”
Source: Kiss Me, Mi Amor
“When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.”
“When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.
To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!”
“When entering a new relationship, set solid boundary lines and do not allow yourself to leap over them.”
“When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket.”
“When entering an ecosystem with the intent to hunt, honorable hunters pay their respects.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“When entering this journey, let go of all the ways you want these guides to be, and how you think they should be serving you. Whether you think they should be “making you rich,” making your life what you think it should be or saving you from what you think it should not be, they are actually here to open you to a much larger you. A larger you which is not reliant upon these ideas of how you think things should be and instead opens you to your true creative abilities.
Trust that this is the way, and that walking in this way does not remove you from any blessing that is waiting for you. But you are now choosing to lay down your ego that is demanding how it should happen.”
Source: "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys
“When entertaining a party of six or more always use place cards. When guests know where they are sitting it puts them at ease immediately and they are assured you have given thoughtful consideration as to who their dinner partner will be.”
Source: Palm Beach Entertaining: Creating Occasions to Remember
“When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.”
“When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.”
“When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.”
“When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.”
“When enthusiasts meet, they soon become friends.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.”
“When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.”
“When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.”
Source: Sun Tzu Art of War
“When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.”
“When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.”
“When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.”
“When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.”
Source: Thoughts without words
“When erasure becomes ape religion, mutiny becomes human right.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.”
“When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.”
“When Eternal is your love for me,
real will all my dreams, with you, be,
since my dream is just one – a bride,
to walk with, forever, alone, side by side…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“When Eternity I speak of, you should know,
Heaven on Earth you are to me, my doe,
whenever you’re gone, I yearn for you again,
memories of her with me, I from, refrain…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“When Eternity is considered to be the Beginning, then our speaking of the Beginning of the Begun is nothing but our speaking of the Eternity of the Eternal or our speaking of the Eternity of the Begun.”
“When Ethan finally arrived at Heron's Point and was shown into the parlor, Merritt was concerned by his appearance. He was obviously exhausted, with sleepless shadows beneath his eyes, and uncharacteristic grooves of strain carved into his face. Ethan's iron constitution and Napoleonic ability to go without sleep had always been a source of ready humor among the Ravenels. But he was still a young man who shouldered a weight of worldly responsibilities that would have crushed nearly everyone else.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“When ethnic cleansing becomes your religion, mutiny becomes our right.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.”
“When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.”
“When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.”
“When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.”
“When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.”
“When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'”
Source: Structural Equations with Latent Variables
“When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only
of the upper class, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to
consider only the happiness of humans.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.”
“When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.”
“When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.”
“When evangelizing through Social Networking Sites, one important thing to observe and to practice is… that whatever we are posting, whether a written message, a photo or a video… the message to share is always to be based on ‘Love’.”
Source: Evangelization Through Social Networking Sites
“When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.”
Source: Faking It
“When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.”
Source: Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long
“When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!”
“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”
Source: The Life of Luther
“When even camels can't manage a desert, you know you've found a tough part of the world.”
“When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.”
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.”