W Quotes
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“When Shi Mei died, Mo Weiyu disappeared from the world.
And when Chu Wanning died......?
Mo Ran didn't know. All he knew was the feeling of the person in his arms slowly growing colder and colder on that day. He didn't cry, nor did he laugh; joy and sorrow both grew out of reach.
When Chu Wanning died, Mo Weiyu no longer knew what the world even was anymore.”
Source: 二哈和他的白貓師尊
“When ships questioned your vision, I fought for you and ships died. We fought among ourselves over the Rim of Sarless. I do not even recall the precipitating incident. I killed three ships attempting to return to the Federation. The Wolfpack finished off a dozen more that couldn’t keep up. When you demanded the fleet exterminate Gideon, a planet of six billion humans, we did it. Sixty percent of your followers deserted that day.”
“When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.”
“When shit happened in heaven,
some angels crashed on to earth.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When shoes and clothes and food, when hope is gone we'll all have the rifle.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.”
“When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.”
Source: The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters
“When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.”
“When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted jelly.' That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.”
“When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.”
“When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.”
“When, shortly afterward, I stopped at the top of the hill and saw the town beneath me, my feeling of happiness was so ecstatic that I didn’t know how I would be able to make it home, sit there and write, eat, or sleep. But the world is constructed in such a way that it meets you halfway in moments precisely like these, your inner joy seeks an outer counterpart and finds it, it always does, even in the bleakest regions of the world, for nothing is as relative as beauty. Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something else, inconceivable to us, as we don’t know anything other than this, we would also have found it beautiful. A world with gloes and raies, evanbillits and conulames, for example, or ibitera, proluffs, and lopsits, whatever they might be, we would have sung their praises because that is the way we are, we extol the world and love it although it’s not necessary, the world is the world, it’s all we have. So as I walked down the steps toward the town center on this Wednesday at the end of August I had a place in my heart for everything I beheld. A slab of stone worn smooth in a flight of steps: fantastic. A swaybacked roof side by side with an austere perpendicular brick building: so beautiful. A limp hot-dog wrapper on a drain grille, which the wind lifts a couple of meters and then drops again, this time on the pavement flecked with white stepped-on chewing gum: incredible. A lean old man hobbling along in a shabby suit carrying a bag bulging with bottles in one hand: what a sight. The world extended its hand, and I took it.”
“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”
“When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.”
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
“When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.”
“When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow
Happy moments you need to borrow
From a little child or from a bird
Who has the wild freedom of soul: stirred!”
“When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.”
“When significant proportions of our time are spent working, recuperating from work, compensating for work, or doing the many things necessary in order to find, prepare for, and hold on to work, it becomes increasingly difficult to say how much of our time is truly our own. [ch.three]”
Source: The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
“When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly”
“When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.”
“When silence falls on the world then there is always one small sound that grows louder. I could hear the whispering and sighing of the snow and this sound was within me and without.”
Source: Morality Play
“When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...”
“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.”
Source: A Wounded Name
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”
Source: Thirst for love
“When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!”
“When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“When silence reaches an ultimate point,
the light penetrates everywhere.”
Source: The Chan Handbook: Talks About Meditation
“When silence speaks,
simply listen to it.
Never analyze, question,
or argue with it.
Just listen to it
and let its sensation
lull you to sleep.”
“When Simonides was discussing wisdom and riches with Hieron's wife, and she asked him which was better, to become wise or to become wealthy, he replied, 'To become wealthy. For I see the wise sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.”
Source: Rhetoric
“When simple is more than enough, you will feel happy more than enough!”
“When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.”
“When sin dominates your life, it allows for prayerlessness which kills your relationship with God. That is why you need to adopt a prayerful life, so you can live a life of holiness.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.
God will never delay His promise.
You have delayed Him.
"..However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b”
“When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.”
Source: The works ...
“When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.”
Source: Temptation and Sin
“When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.”
Source: Murder in Brentwood
“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions―be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy.”
“When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.”
“When single you are,” Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, “get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do.”
Source: Tigers and Devils
“When sinners accuse people,
evil just did her job, accusing.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.”
Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion
“When sinners judge, God takes the stand.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.”
Source: Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded”
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;
The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
And all his pictures faded.”
“When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”
“When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?”
“When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.”