W Quotes
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“When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.”
Source: Brother Odd
“When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!”
“When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.”
“When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.”
“When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.”
“When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.”
“When my world
was nothing but darkness
I set my soul on fire.”
Source: Hope Between Heartbeats
“When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.”
“When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.”
“When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.”
“When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.”
“When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.”
“When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.”
“When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.”
“When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice;
It looks through light to ever greater light
And sees Eternity ensphering Life.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.”
“When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.”
“When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.”
“When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.”
“When NASA had awarded SpaceX the contract to build a rocket that would take astronauts to the Space Station, it had, on the same day in 2014, given a competing contract, with 40 percent more funding to Boeing. By the time SpaceX succeeded in 2020, Boeing had not even been able to get an unmanned test flight to dock with the station.”
Source: Elon Musk
“When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.”
“When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.”
“When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.”
“When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.”
Source: Poems of William Cowper, Esq
“When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“When natives are treated alien,
and aliens take over as master,
cultures uprooted by legal decree,
honor is stolen as spoils of war,
defying the delirium of king and country,
rise and stand human against imperial larceny.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”
Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
“When natural music is
heightened and polished by art”, he said once, “there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent, (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music, in which this is most singular and indeed astonishing, that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four or five voices also sing, which as it were
play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully
grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed, and believe that there is
nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
“When natural music is heightened and polished by art, there man first beholds and can with great wonder examine to a certain extent (for it cannot be wholly seized or understood) the great and perfect wisdom of God in His marvellous work of music. In which this is most singular and indeed astonishing: that one man sings a simple tune or tenor (as musicians call it), together with which three, four, or five voices also sing, which, as it were, play and skip delightedly round this simple tune or tenor, and wonderfully grace and adorn the said tune with manifold devices and sounds, performing as it were a heavenly dance, so that those who at all understand it and are moved by it must be greatly amazed and believe that there is nothing more extraordinary in the world than such a song adorned with many voices.”
“When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.”
“When nature gave all the animals their organs for conception, it equipped those organs with a special facility for creating pleasure, and the soul with a ‘marvellous and indescribable desire to make use of them.”
Source: Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World
“When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”
Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.”
“When nature looks so philosophical, you know you're in the autumn!”
“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.”
Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“When nature no longer enchants us, we must face disenchantment, the sense that the world has lost its wonder. If we suffer from the loss of authentic experience, it is because beauty has been commodified or simulated, and the sublime has become unreachable. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ ).”
“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures
“When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.”
“When nature tries to communicate with you, you can't help but take it personally...
Когато природата се опитва да общува с теб няма как да не го приемеш лично”
“When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.”
“When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.”
“When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone”
“When nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11, it was enough to create massive change in our society. Over ten times as many people die from guns each year. Where is the social change?”
“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.”
“When need for the supreme vanishes ,the nascent value of incorrigibilty tends to infinity.”
“When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.”
“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”
Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right