W Quotes
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“When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.”
“When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.”
Source: The Door to Satisfaction: The Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master
“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of "greatness." "Greatness," it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed.
"C'est grand!"* say the historians, and there no longer exists either good or evil but only "grand" and "not grand." Grand is good, not grand is bad. Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes." And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand, and his soul is tranquil.
peating: "Sublime! Grand! Napoleon le Grand!" Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.("From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.")
And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”
Source: War and Peace
“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.”
Source: War and Peace
“When it is late, everyone cares!”
Source: Six Words Inspiration
“When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.”
“When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.”
Source: Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing
“When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.”
“When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.”
Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard
“When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.”
“When it is not good enough to BE good, and we want people to also THINK we are good, then we are likely to protect our reputations in destructive ways.”
Source: The Cost of Control: Why We Crave It, the Anxiety It Gives Us, and the Real Power God Promises - Library Edition
“When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.”
“When it is not necessary to say anything, then it is necessary to say nothing.”
“When it is not possible to attack what is said, they attack who said it.”
“When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.”
“When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”
Source: Marlborough and Other Poems
“When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.”
“When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!”
“When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.”
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.”
Source: The Crucible
“When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.”
Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
“When it is time for you to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend, remember that while the physical interaction ceases, the soul connection you share is eternal and remains with you both forever.”
Source: Beyond Companionship: Connecting with Kindred Souls of Animal Companions.
“When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.”
“When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.”
“When it is time to plant a seed, plant a seed. So that when it is time to succeed, you can succeed.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When it is time to sleep, Tiernan and Oak wrap themselves in bearskins. Oak drapes one over my shoulders. I say nothing to indicate that I don't need it, that I am never too cold. When we lie down by the fire, he watches me. The light dances in his eyes.
'Come here,' he says, beckoning with a hand.
I am not sure I know the me who moves, who shifts so that I am resting my head against his shoulder. The me who feels his breath against my hair and the pressure of his splayed fingers at the small of my back. His feet tangle with mine, my toes brushing against the fur just above his hooves. My fingers are resting against his stomach, and I cannot help feeling the hard planes of him, the muscles and the scars. When I move my hand, his breath catches.
We both go still. Tiernan, close to the fire, turns in his sleep.
In the firelight, the prince's amber eyes are molten gold.
I am aware of my skin in a way I have never been before, of the slight movements of my limbs, of the rise and fall of my chest. I can hear the beat of his heart against my cheek. I feel as though I am shouting kiss me with every restless shift of my body. But he does not, and I am too much of a coward to do more than lie there and yearn until my eyes drift closed at last.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”
Source: Manual of political economy
“When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us In the dark don't we know And when we are paralyzed by nightmares We know what you are. With our first cries we rail against you. We see you in every drop of blood in every tear.”
“When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.”
“When it isn’t possible to attack what is said, they attack the one who said it.”
“When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.”
“When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.”
“When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!”
“When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.”
“When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.”
“When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.”
“When IT moves beyond commodity management and begins to show a higher level of strategic value and dedicate more resources to innovation, IT is on the right track to improve its performance and maturity.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important,
and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him,
he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply
the fact that there are no brick and no temples. Any visible expression
of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers.
Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the
desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one
knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself.”
Source: Open Boat
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
“When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
from "When the death comes”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“When it rages enough, hate doesn't need a reason. It burns for the sake of its own heat and devours whatever, or whomever, is set before it.”
Source: The Monster in the Hollows
“When it rains, God sits on his throne and listens to his favorite music — the sound of thunder.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“When it rains," her father said "it pours.”
Source: Salem Falls