W Quotes
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“When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and they try to get into as free a space as they can so they're really ready to go. They give away all their possessions and are as generous as possible. They give up old hatreds and grudges, and that's a wise intuitive thing, because it's much freer to live like that.”
“When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.”
“When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.”
“When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.”
“When people are feeling fabulous, they don’t want to take any crap from anybody, particularly the cops.”
Source: The Stonewall Reader
“When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.”
“When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.”
“When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.”
Source: Lucia, Lucia: A Novel
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”
“When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews
“When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.”
“When people are forced to reap what they sow, the benefit of consequence is appropriately placed, and health and healing become possible.”
Source: For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.”
“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.”
Source: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
“When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.”
“When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.”
“When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.”
“When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.”
“When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.”
Source: The Table of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi
“When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.”
“When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.”
“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“When people are helpless, to them be a christ - but when they behave heartless instead, be the light to their lies.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“When people are in a workplace where it's possible to organize and engage in labor actions, that's how they fight, and it can be very effective. When people are not in that situation, they fight in other ways. They fight in the marketplace. One need only notice that there's been a meaningful shift in where people are over the last thirty, or fifty years from traditional productive industries toward a kind of work that involves circulation of capital and products, and toward unemployment. People who are in that situation are unlikely to fight somewhere else.”
“When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.”
“When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.”
“When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you’re suffering with them.” “The good side of bad acts?” I say. “I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.”
Source: When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
“When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.”
“When people are in trouble they need to talk.”
“When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.”
“When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.”
“When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )”
“When people are lame, they love to blame.”
“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.”
“When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.”
Source: The great crash, 1929
“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“When people are like you, conversations flow naturally and feel more relaxed, don’t they? You know what to say, how to talk, what to expect, and how to understand them on an intuitive level.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.'”
“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”
“When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.”
“When people are missing out in their choices and cannot make a distinction between cheery, witty, funny, filthy or scurrilous walks of life, they will have a hard time to inhabit a pleasing and enriching life; and to integrate into a world of understanding and recognition. ("Love lying fallow " )”
“When people are motivated by money, they make bad decisions.”
“When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.”
“When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.”
“When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.”
“When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.”
“When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory