W Quotes
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“When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him.”
Source: Pulphead
“When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.”
Source: Out of the Dust
“When MacDiarmid spoke of "Synthetic Scots" he merely referred to another aspect of this necessary revolution; that we should forget the whole poverty-stricken "dialect" tradition that Burns and his immediate predecessors had been unconsciously responsible for, and use again all the rich resources of the language as Dunbar and the Makars had used it, as had Burns and Fergusson, Scott, Galt, Stevenson and George Douglas Brown.”
Source: A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature
“When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist”
“When machines failed and the world froze, salvation rode on four paws, guided by an instinct as ancient as the ice itself.”
Source: Frozen Frontlines
“When madness becomes beautiful, you become insanely creative and that's when the dance begins...”
“When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.”
“When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands.
"Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?"
"I was simply overcome," Imasu said in a faint voice.
Magnus preened slightly. "Ah. Well."
"By how awful that was," Imasu said.
Magnus blinked. "Pardon?"
"I can't live a lie any longer!" Imasu burst out. "I have tried to be encouraging. Dignitaries of the town have been sent to me, asking me to plead with you to stop. My own sainted mother begged me, with tears in her eyes - "
"It isn't as bad as all that - "
"Yes, it is!" It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavor now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in the lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. The townspeople believe that you and I are performing arcane magic rituals - "
"Well, that one was rather a good guess," Magnus remarked.
" - using the skull of an elephant, an improbably large mushroom, and one of your very peculiar hats!"
"Or not," said Magnus. "Furthermore, my hats are extraordinary."
"I will not argue with that." Imasu scrubbed a hand through his thick black hair, which curled and clung to his fingers like inky vines. "Look, I know that I was wrong. I saw a handsome man, thought that it would not hurt to talk a little about music and strike up a common interest, but I don't deserve this. You are going to get stoned in the town square, and if I have to listen to you play again, I will drown myself in the lake."
"Oh," said Magnus, and he began to grin. "I wouldn't. I hear there is a dreadful monster living in that lake."
Imasu seemed to still be brooding about Magnus's charango playing, a subject that Magnus had lost all interest in. "I believe the world will end with a noise like the noise you make!"
"Interesting," said Magnus, and he threw his charango out the window.
"Magnus!"
"I believe that music and I have gone as far as we can go together," Magnus said. "A true artiste knows when to surrender."
"I can't believe you did that!"
Magnus waved a hand airily. "I know, it is heartbreaking, but sometimes one must shut one's ears to the pleas of the muse."
"I just meant that those are expensive and I heard a crunch.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“When mainstream male gay sexual practice eroticises dominance and submission then male gay s/m has to be explained in the context of the construction of male sexuality.”
Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution
“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”
“When makes are kneeling between my legs, Athalar,' she said, 'they're not usually grimacing.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.”
“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”
“When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".”
“When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.”
“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”
“When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.”
Source: Killosophy
“When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.”
“When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off.”
Source: Back on the Fire: Essays
“When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.”
“When making observations. If you’re thinking as a problem solver. You have to remember there are 2 or 3 people in any given situation who make decisions for the masses. Put yourself in their shoes. See the world as a leader.”
“When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.”
“When making the case for liberal education to low-income students and families, I often point out that there is a long tradition of steering working-class students toward an education in servitude, an education in obedience and docility, an education in not asking questions. The idea that liberal education is only for the already privileged, for the pampered elite, is a way of carrying on this odious tradition. It is a way of putting liberal education out of the reach of the people who would most benefit from it—precisely the people who have historically been denied the tools of political agency. I ask them to take a look at who sends their children to liberal arts colleges and at what liberal arts college graduates go on to do with their “useless” education.”
Source: Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
“When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.”
Source: On Character and Mental Toughness
“When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.”
“When making your ass, always draw the shape of Africa. Or as Latrice would say, the homeland.”
“When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.”
“When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.”
“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
“When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.”
“When Malingeau drew himself from his long sleep, the music was still droning in his head. Christelle was already gone. She had taken care to scribble a line on a scrap of paper.
"I drank your body until my thirst was worn.”
“When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.”
“When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.”
Source: Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
“when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom”
“When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.”
“When man becomes fully conscious of his powers, his role, his destiny, he is an artist and he ceases his struggle with reality.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Heart
“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.”
“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.”
“When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.”
“When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.”
“When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals.”
Source: Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
“When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.”
“When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind”
Source: The Stationary Ark
“When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble”
“When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.”
“when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.”