W Quotes
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“When Nora thought of her closest access to happiness, it was music. Yes, she still played the piano and keyboard sometimes, but she had given up creating. She had given up singing. She thought of those happy early pub gigs playing 'Beautiful Sky'. She thought of her brother larking about on stage with her and Ravi and Ella.
So now she knew precisely which book to ask for.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“When normal people fall in love, they want a lot of unstated stuff—ridiculous stuff. If they don’t get it, they tend to get angry and do a lot of ridiculous stuff. That’s when endings happen. With true love, endings don’t happen. Situations can certainly end, but love doesn’t end. Otherwise, it isn’t love, is it?”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.”
“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
“When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.”
“When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.”
“When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.”
Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh
“When not through external events, spirit communicates “internally” via symbols and signs. Symbolic language, like music, is universal and crosses beyond the limitations of verbal and written languages. It is a divine communication. Essentially, the Spirit is using All means necessary to inspire us and to get our attention – not an easy task in the material world of sights, sounds, online messages, TV and movies - and commercialism!”
Source: Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook
“When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.”
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory”
“When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.”
“When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.”
“When nothing goes your way, you're on the right track.”
“When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.”
Source: Jean-Christophe: Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt
“When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“When nothing is done, nothing is won!”
Source: Become a Better You
“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.”
Source: Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation
“When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.”
“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
“When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.”
“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”
“When nothing seems to work, just LET GO! The Higher Source is always there to take care of you! Hold on to TRUST and BELIEF...”
“When nothing softens the grief, may the grief soften me.”
“When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.”
“When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.”
Source: The Famous Ghalib
“When nothing works, persistence will.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”
“When now and then among the other ladies, Love makes his home within her charming face, the ways in which each one can't match her beauty renew desire, and my passion thrives.”
“When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.”
“When Nureyev appeared in San Francisco not long ago there were quite a few ballet fans who flew all the way from New York to see him. The mystics would point out how fruitless it is to go to see important people when our first priority is to see ourselves. We think we know Tom, Dick and Harry, but we really know everyone, including ourselves, only on the surface level. If we could see our real Self coming down the street, we would wonder who this beautiful, radiant, magnificent creature could be. We would not be able to take our eyes off him.”
Source: The End of Sorrow
“When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at Sulafa and felt the fire in her heart die.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt
“When NYDJ called me and told me that Christie Brinkley was going to be on set with me I freaked out. And when I met Christie, she had a little freak out because she said that her daughter Sailor loved me so much.”
“When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.”
“When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.”
“When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!”
“When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.”
“When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.”
“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.”
“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.”
“When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.”
“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community
“When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.”
“When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as are any objects in the world, and an aesthetic consideration of an object existing in the realm of art means that the object's existence or functioning in an art context is irrelevant to the aesthetic judgment.”
“When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”
“When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held, will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.”
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”
“When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.”
“When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.”
Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus