W Quotes
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“When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy”
“When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.”
“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
“When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.”
“When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.”
“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”
Source: Self-culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual : a Course of Lectures
“When I constantly beg someone to treat me right, love and respect me, I am projecting the kind of love I wish to receive and know I deserve, but I have somehow allowed my limitations to inform me that I need to crawl on my knees, appealing for this love.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
“When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.”
Source: The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface
“When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.”
“When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.”
“When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.”
“When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.”
“When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.”
“When I cook, I mean when I'm working crazy hours I always do Sunday dinner and I'm not afraid to ask for help, whether it's from Boston Market or from my friends to bring a dish ... it's all about community and really connecting.”
“When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.”
“When I cook, my brain stops completely.”
“When I could escape the tedium of my baby and seize a respite, I might take a walk by the city walls, wondering if I could muster the energy to fling myself from their height onto the rocky slopes below.”
Source: Ariadne
“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.”
Source: The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
“When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any”
“When I could hold my eyes open long enough, I did stare up at the rain pelting down on me. I’ve never looked at it like that, straight up into the sky, and while I flinched more than I could actually see, when I could see it was absolutely beautiful. Like each drop rocketing towards me was separate from the thousands of others and for a suspended moment in time, I could glimpse it and see its delicate facets. I saw the gray clouds churning above me and felt the car shake when the wind from the traffic pushed against it. I shivered even though it’s warm enough to swim. But nothing I saw or felt or heard was as warm and fascinating as Andrew’s closeness.”
Source: The Edge of Never
“When I could look beyond the external beauty.....I found immense ental love in the world”
Source: My Experiments with Love: A collection of Poems
“When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.”
“When I could not stay on top of everyday activities was when I realized I was retired through ill health.”
“When I couldn't distract myself with work, that's all I had. They were faceless women, angel."
Dipping, he pushes his scratchy cheek into mine and whispers in my ear.
"I see you”
Source: The Protector
“When I couldn't get that sensation in the real world, I would quietly let my memory of those feelings awaken inside me. In this way, memory became one of my most valued emotional tools, a means of survival, even. Like a warm kitten, softly curled inside an oversized coat pocket, fast asleep.”
“When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.”
“When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.”
“When I count my blessings, I find the best comfort in a blessed existence.”
“When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“When I count my blessings, it is immeasurable”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.”
“When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'”
“When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.”
“When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" I never expected it to be such an emotional journey into a life I left four decades ago.”
Source: Escape from Saigon
“When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.”
“When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.”
“When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.”
“When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.”
“When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.”
“When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.”
“When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.”
“When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.”
“When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."”
“When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.”
“When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.”
“When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.”
“When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.”