W Quotes
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“When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.”
“When I research, I try to do unique research.”
“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.”
“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.”
“When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.”
“When I rest my head against him again, he sighs.
“What?” I ask, curious.
“I am not convinced these human holidays are worth it.” He gestures at our small cave, still leaf-strewn from his earlier efforts. “Look at all the work I did, and not a single kiss on my cock from my mate.”
Source: Ice Planet Holiday
“When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.”
“When I retire and I'm back at home with me kids, they're not going to care that I smiled too much on the field. They're not going to care what kind of team player I was.”
“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”
“When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!”
“When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.”
“When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I want it to be like, 'Hey who donated that hospital wing that's saving so many lives?' 'I don't know. It was anonymous.' 'Well, guess what. It was Michael Scott.' 'But how do you know? It was anonymous.' 'Because I'm him.”
“When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.”
“When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.”
“When I retire, I'm going after his job. If I don't make sheriff, I'm going after his job. He's not that good. You can quote me on that.”
“When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.”
“When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.”
“When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.”
“When I retired from the championships in 2012, I had finished in fourth place in the international division, second place in nationals, and first in our state three years in a row. This journey not only helped me overcome my fears, it taught me discipline and perseverance. The biggest medals were the friendships that I still enjoy today.”
“When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.”
“When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.”
“When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.”
“When I return, Charles stands at my station and he says, "Come here. You have to taste this."
I set the bottle down and step up to him. He holds out a berry, but before I can reach for it, he places it in his mouth, half sticking out. He pulls me toward him and raises his brows. I'm so into this. My lips part and we're like human forms of Lady and the Tramp---our lips touching, a quick chew, and our tongues meet. I'm not trembling from fear of the paparazzi anymore but from full-blown lust. When we separate, Charles licks his lips and traces my mouth with his finger. "That was the best damn strawberry I've ever eaten. You're delicious, Kate---”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“When I return the energy that you all give me, all of a sudden, you all want to act like the victim—and I am the bad guy! How is that? When you all are the ones who fucked me over.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.”
“When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?”
“When I returned from the triclinium, where the guests were finishing their honey cakes and drinking from jeweled goblets of pear juice, a woman entered the kitchen from a side door.
Out of all the surprises I'd had that day, she was the most surprising of all. The vision of her dark eyes, waves of auburn curls, and the sylphlike curve of her hips would haunt me in the days to come.
"I came for Apicata's meal," she said. Her voice floated across the room, undulations of sound washing over my skin. This was the woman Aelia had said would come for the tray. Passia. The name glittered in my mind as I made the connection.
"Is that it?" She pointed, one long finger tipped with carefully curved, pink-pale nails. I had been standing like a statue, stunned by my close proximity to what I thought might be the physical manifestation of Venus herself.
"That's the plate, yes, over there. There." Suddenly I wished she would leave. If not, all would be lost. I wouldn't be able to complete the cena, wouldn't be able to direct the servers, and would end up under the lash as the result of my gloomy failure to live up to Apicius's expectations. Inside my head, I said a prayer to Venus that Passia would go, but in the same breath, I begged the goddess that Passia would remember me, as I knew I would remember every sumptuous detail about the moments she stood before me.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that runs right above it’s river and docks, a castle which never existed and a fountain which is really a sewer, a gust of wind far sweeter and more fragrant than any red rose carried the smell of shit and floating soil like a tongue into my nostril.”
Source: Eurydice in the Underworld
“When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.”
Source: Sonora
“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”
Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
“When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.”
“When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.”
“When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.”
“When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I had a secret. It was a guilty secret, certainly. But it was MY secret. I had something to hold on to. It was company. It kept me calm. It filled me up and emptied me out.”
Source: Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I'm sure plenty of people probably thought that. That's one of the reasons I did it - especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that - it's frustrating.”
“When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.”
Source: Essays on Hayek
“When I reviewed the range of toxins I had been exposed to in the workplace, I was not surprised to find I had lung disease.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.”
“When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.”
Source: Farming: A Hand Book
“When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn't see anything wonderful.
I didn't see anything better than what I already had.
Home.”
Source: Out of the Dust
“When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!”
Source: The Utterly Amazing BUMBLING-BOY VS. THE GREEN BOGEY: To bee or not to bee, that is the question
“When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.”
“When I run a business, and I run a business, if I don't take advantage of the five deductions that are available to me, even if you think those deductions are unfair, then I've violated my fiduciary duty.”
“When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.”
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”
Source: Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses
“When I run around with my children and keep my thoughts on the simple beauty of nature, I develop a great bond with the real world.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.”
“When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.”
“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”