W Quotes
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“When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.”
“When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ("Back garden of a dream")”
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
“When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.”
“When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.”
“When identity is derived from projecting an image in the public realm, something is lost, some core of identity diluted, some sense of authority or interiority sacrificed. It is time to question the false equivalency between not being seen and hiding. And time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? Going unseen may be becoming a sign of decency and self-assurance. The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, propriety, autonomy, and voice. It is not about retreating from the digital world but about finding some genuine alternative to a life of perpetual display. It is not about mindless effacement but mindful awareness. Neither disgraceful nor discrediting, such obscurity can be vital to our very sense of being, a way of fitting in with the immediate social, cultural, or environmental landscape. Human endeavor can be something interior, private, and self-contained. We can gain, rather than suffer, from deep reserve.”
Source: How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
“When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.”
“When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.”
“When, if ever, do people find themselves if they’ve had somebody else tell them who they are for all of their formative years?”
Source: You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened
“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.”
Source: A Confession: Easyread Edition
“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“When ignorance invites you to a dinner, let understanding be your cutlery”
“When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.”
“When ignorance reigns, life is lost...”
“When ignorance was default thinking, magic defined a person's capacity. Real miracle is an act of kindness, nothing is higher and more divine.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”
“When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.”
“When ill health shows up in your body, it is a wake up call to change your thinking, speaking, feelings or actions. Wellness - think and speak well, feel and do good for others and yourself. Wellness is created from being well within,”
“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.”
“When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.”
“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)”
“When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”
Source: Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama. episode 2
“When Im competing, I need to be strong.”
“When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.”
“When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.”
“When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.”
“When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.”
“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”
“When imagination comes in action, creative things are likely to happen”
“When [Imam] Samudra was tried, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, 'His lawyer, Qaidar Faisal, later delivered an official defence submission.' The defense summation praised the Taliban and its version of Islam and concluded with this telling detail: 'Mr. Faisal also quoted from American satirist Michael Moore's book Stupid White Men and other anti-western texts.'”
Source: Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man: The Crockumentary Dissected―Camera Tricks, Spinning Statistics, and the Truth
“When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.”
“When immigrants arrive in another country, we experience a lot of stress. We learn a new language, go to school, and work in a new environment, which is most likely some survival or transitional job initially. We probably lose social and professional status, and the overall experience is unpleasant and stressful. It sucks. I’ve been there myself.
We also have less time compared with locals. For example, we have to spend time learning English - they don’t. Most likely, they can get a job with a higher pay. In our case, we most likely get a minimum-paying job first, which means we have to work more and longer hours.
This means that if we want to progress in private and business life at the same rate as locals, we need to be better organized, more efficient, and more disciplined and use more effective and innovative tools and approaches. There is no other way around it.
Therefore, I wanted to emphasize that we immigrants need our unique approach to dating.”
“When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.”
“When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.”
“When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. I think that your people, when you save a place. But the problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down.”
“When immortality comes at the cost of humanity, rebellion is inevitable."
― *Ascension Divide*”
Source: Ascension Divide
“When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.”
“When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”
“When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.”
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been published only four years before, and the thesis that man was literally a part of nature, rather than an earthy vessel charged with some sublimer stuff, was so novel and so offensive to current metaphysics that it needed the most vigorous defense. Half the civilized world was rudely shocked, the other half skeptically amused.
Nearly a century has passed since the Origin shattered the complacency of the Victorian world and initiated what may be called the Darwinian revolution, an upheaval of man's ideas comparable to and probably exceeding in significance the revolution that issued from Copernicus's demonstration that the earth moves around the sun. The theory of evolution was but one of many factors contributing to the destruction of the ancient beliefs; it only toppled over what had already been weakened by centuries of decay, rendered suspect by the assaults of many intellectual disciplines; but it marked the beginning of the end of the era of faith.”
Source: Man and His Gods
“When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.”
Source: The Book of Five Rings
“When in a frying pan, thank your stars. You will reminisce about it moments later, when you fall in the fire.”
Source: The Jeera Packer
“When in a little corner
on a tiny blue dot,
deep under the ocean,
in a very special spot...
an itty bitty thing
woke up anew
and came alive.
I tell you, it's true!”
Source: Annabelle & Aiden: The Story Of Life
“When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.”
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When in a relationship, short or long term, one becomes so used to doing things, even mundane activities, with the other person. Then the relationship ends, and it's like trying to play the piano with an amputated finger. You can do it, but it doesn't feel right for quite a long time.”
“When in a spin, facing the direction earlier, controls the destination.”