W Quotes
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“When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.”
“When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.”
“When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.”
“When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all of the things I could have watched and learned - and I didn't. And how, now, in my career, how I would love to have a ton of takes.”
“When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.”
“When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.”
“When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.”
“When I look at the beautiful blessedness of life, I find the joy of existence.”
“When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.”
“When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.”
Source: The Jesus Style
“When I look at the cross, I learn to say: 'The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). I begin to believe with Paul that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to the cross for me, then He loves me so much He will always give me only what will bring me blessing (Romans 8:32).”
“When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.”
“When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.”
“When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!”
“When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.”
Source: And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings
“When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.”
“When I look at the high level of science that I have been able to produce on just a few thousand dollars per year, I shake my head in disbelief at the need to spend 1.4 billion dollars on a single research project.”
“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.”
“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.”
“When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.”
“When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.”
“When I look at the night sky, I'm overwhelmed by the enormity of the universe. But this doesn't make me question my significance in God's eyes, no. Instead, it makes me drop to my knees in awe of God. If God created all of this, how powerful must He be to be able to manage and sustain all of it? God has to have enormous power to manage the entire cosmos. How mighty must He be to hold this massive universe in the palm of His hand?”
Source: Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods
“When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.”
“When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.”
“When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.”
“When I look at the sky, It remind me of you. When I look at you, It remind me of the sky.”
“When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.”
“When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.”
“When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.”
“When I look at the US now, I am devastated and angry that we live in a country that supports the narrative that it is okay to medicalize young girls and women by prescribing testosterone and performing mastectomies as a first response to the girls’ gender confusion, stress, or mental health concerns.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“when i look at the waves i realize not every time it meets the shore, sometimes it even end before reaching it's destination.”
“When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.”
“When I look at the women, it's from a male gaze of being fascinated, because beyond my mother, I've been around notorious women all of my life, and then, secondly, when I look at women and try and create fictional stories around them.”
“When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.”
“When I look at the world I see only people trying to do good and failing often”
“When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”
“When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.”
“When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick.”
“When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.”
“When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.”
“When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?”
“When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.”
“When I look at you, all I see is magic. You put quite a show - The Magician”
Source: Coming Home
“When I look at you and you look at me,
I wonder what wonderful things you will be.”
“When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.”
“When I look at you, I can feel it. When I look at you I’m home”
“When I look at you I see all the beauty the world has to offer wrapped up in you like a gift.”
Source: Drawn Together