W Quotes
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“When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.”
“When rich people are pushing communism, you know what you are really facing is fascism.”
“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
“When rich people say they are helping, they mean they are helping themselves by assisting you. They assist you because they want to control you. They only spend to gain control. They are about profit, not loss, so they won't just give away their money for free.”
“When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“When Richard said the word ‘baby’ somehow it didn’t seem condescending. It was gentle, kind.
Baby from Richard meant, ‘It’s okay not to be in charge right now, it’s okay to feel small.’
It meant, ‘It’s okay because I’ve got you.’
It meant, ‘I’m sorry for your loss.’
It meant, ‘It’s going to be okay.”
Source: Bite Me! - You Know I Like It
“When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.”
“When Rick Perry was told about Kim Jong Il, he said, 'I never heard of him, but then again, I don't listen to that rap.'”
“When riding, ask yourself, ‘What will my horse get out of this if I get what I want?’ Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.”
“When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.”
“When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.”
“When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“When righteous desires back up your motivation, you'll find that your inner gas tank will always have fuel to spare. Brick walls cannot stand in your way, detours cannot get you off track, and road construction will not make you turn around and head back. Your strength will surprise you, and whatever it is that your heart desires will eventually be accomplished.”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“When rigidity and suspicion take over, joy dies out.”
Source: Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
“When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.”
“When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.”
“When rivers are dammed, so too are the stories they carried.”
“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.”
“When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye reports to the brain, but the ear reports to the heart." Perhaps this is the thing that musicians can do that writers can't ever, quite, but it is what I aspire to, that sense/power of the auditory, and the belief that to hear more clearly is to see more clearly, and that to see more clearly is to feel more deeply.”
“When Robert drew a human face he felt as if he'd pinned a butterfly for study. As if he'd taken something that flickered with life and beauty and killed it.
He would not do that to her.
And so instead he decided to draw something else to remind him, secretly, of her. Something that recalled the lustrous spread of her fins, the quivering spines. Something that was beautiful and vicious all at once.
A lionfish.”
Source: The Sirens
“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”
“When Robert was younger he lived somewhere else. When asked, he could never say exactly where, for the simple but painful reason that the nature of his removal from his home had been so sudden and rough and frightening, and had taken such a long time to end, that by the time he found himself in his new home and dared to open his eyes, he had not the slightest idea where he was or where he had come from.”
Source: Robert The Frog
“When robots took the wheel and drones soared the skies, repaving 160 kilometers of road without a single human in sight, it wasn’t just China showing off its tech chops, it was a loud, metallic wake-up call to businesses everywhere that the future of work is being paved by gears and algorithms, not just by people.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.”
“When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.”
“When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.”
“When rock was young, the earth was cooling its heels.”
“When Roger Ailes said that NPR executives were 'the left wing of Nazism," he wasn't trying to tar NPR as evil in the eyes of the general public or the Congress, but to signal to others on his team that they owed NPR no courtesy or respect and had permission to be assholes about the organization. (209-10)”
Source: Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
“When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.”
“When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.”
“When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."”
“When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.”
“When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.”
Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels
“When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.”
“When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.”
“When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.”
“When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976, he had already developed an unwavering and steadfast faith in the correctness of whatever came out of his mouth.”
“When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.”
“When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.”
Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
“When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.”
“When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.”
“When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.”
“When rooted and grounded in The Divine, you can rise above every misery." Tirzah Libert”
“When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.”
Source: Chime
“When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.”
“When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your grief to your friends"(III, ii, 844-846), Hamlet responds, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." (III,ii, 371-380)”
Source: Hamlet
“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”
“When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.”
Source: Euripides :in Three Volumes