W Quotes
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“When one screams of being insulted, the idea is clear - to insult the other one.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.”
“When one Sees and Knows yet attachment and abhorrence do not arise, that is called vitaraag charitra (conduct that is free of attachment and abhorrence)!”
“When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.”
“When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!”
“When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.”
“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“When one sense is diminished, the others burn more brightly. In a blindfold, you feel every minute motion of his hand as it crosses your body, his fingertips finding secret places, his palm on bare buttocks, his cock nudging at your clitoris.”
Source: The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
“When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.”
“When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.”
“When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.”
“When one sleeps on the floor, one need not fear falling out of bed.”
“When one soul mirrors another...what would it do if it had nothing to reflect?”
Source: Enticed
“When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.”
“When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“When one spends a long time alone in the Frankfurt airport, one goes crazy at receiving even the tiniest crumbs of affection.”
Source: Kassel no invita a la lógica
“When one star sets, a million spring forth.”
Source: Dreams Reign Supreme
“When one starts a new chapter, the page shouldn’t be messy with commentary but white and crisp, ready for one’s best self.”
Source: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.”
“When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.”
“When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
“When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'”
“When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.”
“When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.”
“When one studies the history of terrestrial religions, it soon becomes clear that so-called primitive peoples everywhere shared a belief in the divinity of the earth. In other words, Goddess worship was universal—until the dawn of the monotheistic, paternalistic religions.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.”
“When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.”
“When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.”
“When one teaches, two learn.”
“When one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.”
“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.”
Source: The Diary of a Chambermaid
“When one that holds communion with the skies
Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,
And once more mingles with us meaner things,
'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.”
“When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.”
“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”
Source: Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal
“When one thinks of a romantic weekend, one imagines ax murder. Usually avoiding it, but tastes vary.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.”
“When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.”
“When one-third of the population of the erstwhile Confederacy had consisted of the much-maligned Sons of Ham, the blacks had really been of economic, social and psychological value to the section. Not only had they done the dirty work and laid the foundation of its wealth, but they had served as a convenient red herring for the upper classes when the white proletariat grew restive under exploitation. The presence of the Negro as an under class had also made of Dixie a unique part of the United States. There, despite the trend to industrialization, life was a little different, a little pleasanter, a little softer. There was contrast and variety, which was rare in a nation where standardization had progressed to such an extent that a traveler didn't know what town he was in until someone informed him. The South had always been identified with the Negro, and vice versa, and its most pleasant memories treasured in song and story, were built around this pariah class.
The deep concern of the Southern Caucasians with chivalry, the protection of white womanhood, the exaggerated development of race pride and the studied arrogance of even the poorest half-starved white peon, were all due to the presence of the black man. Booted and starved by their industrial and agricultural feudal lords, the white masses derived their only consolation and happiness from the fact that they were the same color as their oppressors and consequently better than the mudsill blacks.”
Source: Black No More
“When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'”
“When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.”
“When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.”
“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.”
“When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness