W Quotes
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“When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.”
“When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.”
Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
“When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.”
“When one considers such ancient times one's only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.”
Source: Return of the Crimson Guard
“When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.”
“When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.”
“When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.”
“When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.”
“When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.”
“When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.”
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the famous Postulatum of Euclid, relative to the theory of parallels. This demonstration rested on an obvious paralogism, which appeared as such to everybody; and probably Lagrange also recognised it such during his lecture. For, when he had finished, he put the paper back in his pocket, and spoke no more of it. A moment of universal silence followed, and one passed immediately to other concerns.”
“When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.”
Source: In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
“When one develops one’s natural needs, desires, inclinations, and capacities in ways that harmonise and unify one’s inner psychological states and fits these into a grand natural order that facilitates successful action in the world, and when one reaches the point where one regularly and spontaneously achieves these dual aims, one feels that one is one’s element, has found one’s home, and is performing one’s proper role in the world. Such action generates a special feeling of joy or happiness not only for those who behave this way but also for those who observe such behaviour.”
Source: Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected
“When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.”
“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.”
“When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”
“When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.”
“When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.”
“When one does not feel life or death, it's the best future.”
“When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.”
“When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.”
“When one does not know their own self the madness spreads within without recognition, without hindrance. You don’t even know the beast is there until it strikes and with a sting of fangs on flesh, tears you apart leaving the remains poisoned with venom.”
Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl
“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
“When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.”
“When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.”
Source: Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.”
Source: Flaubert in Egypt
“When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.”
“When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.”
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
“When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.”
“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.”
“When one door closes, pull it off its hinges and make sure it STAYS open. Or just wait for another one to become available, which is much smarter. Alas. Less fun.”
“When one door closes, several opens”
Source: Retirement is fun
“When one door closes.......
Take a hammer and nails and make sure that freakin thing stays shut.”
“When one door closes, another one opens.”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“When one door closes, find another." Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?" "Then you try the window." "And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked. "Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.”
Source: Awake at Dawn
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”
“When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.”
“When one door opens, so does another one.”
Source: Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization
“When one door shuts... sometimes it's best to leave it shut, and move on...”
“When one doubts accomplishment is impossible then death occurs before birth.”
“When one dream dies we replace it with another.”
Source: Synchronesia: A Depressing Existential Novel
“When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.”
“When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love”
“When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wild spell of the remembered interlude is lost altogether and the memory of sadness claims its rightful place in the mind? And what is it we expect from the sun-drenched past? There is no formula for re-entry, nothing we can do to enable reconstruction.”
Source: The Stone Carvers
“When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.”
Source: The Illusions of Postmodernism
“When one encounters an extreme feminist it is only polite to ask her if she prefers to be called Ms or Miss Andrist.”