W Quotes
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“When someone steals your heart not even the law can help you.”
“When someone steals your original ideas? Feel sorry for them.
When someone steals your thunder or applause? Feel sorry for them.
When someone doesn't support your dreams or work ?
Feel sorry for them.
But when someone steals your truth, your voice, your heart or your words?
Feel truly sorry for them
And then kick their ass.
It's yours.
Because you've been way too fucking polite.”
Source: The Resurrection Waltz
“When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.”
“When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.”
“When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.”
Source: Animal
“When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.”
“When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.”
“When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.”
“When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.”
“When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.”
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
“When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.”
“When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.”
“When someone tells me that they insist on having drinks with me, and there are some cultures where sealing the deal or celebrating or having a guest in the home, it is very traditional to slam down a couple shots or whatever the local grog is. I just tell them I'm allergic, which is not a lie, you know alcoholism and drug addiction in many ways are described as an allergy of the body and the mind. So I just tell them I'm allergic and they're like, "Oh, no problem."”
“When someone tells me they don’t like my books — always a strange way to open a conversation but hey such is life — I first think: How is that my problem? I just wrote the damn thing. And second: welcome to the club.
Books, by nature, disappoint. 99.9999* of the planet will never read, much less like, anything you’ve written. The surprise for me is not that someone didn’t like or read my work but that someone in this messed up Chthulucene planet did. Books are the triumph of humble collectives, offerings to the god of small things.”
“When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.”
“When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.”
“When someone tells you not to cry, it’s pretty much impossible not to cry.”
Source: The Lightning-Struck Heart
“When someone tells you somebody’s been murdered, laughing is probably not the best response. You know, for future reference.
But laughing is exactly what I did.”
Source: Hex Hall
“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”
Source: The Lake
“When someone tells you that there is no agenda, you can be certain there is nothing but an agenda.”
“When someone tells you that you have done something that has hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”
“When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.”
“When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.”
“When someone tells you they are too 'busy'… It’s not a reflection of their schedule; it’s a reflection of YOUR spot on their schedule.”
“When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.”
“When someone tells you who and what they are. Believe them the first time. They know themselves better than you do. They know what they’ve lived. You don’t. You only see an exterior. And whether you choose to invalidate them or not then, is up to the person that ‘you’ are.”
“When someone tells you you're not going to walk again and you spend about a year and half on your back, your clothes don't mean much. I was in a robe every day, so I gave everything away - my whole wardrobe, down to the last dress. But at some point I woke up, maybe about four or five months after having done that that, and I thought, "You know what? I really want to try to wear high heels." That's why I wanted to learn to walk. It sounded really stupid but I just wanted to see. That to me was sort of definitive to who I was. So that was my goal.”
“When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.”
“When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.”
“When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.”
“When someone thanks you for your help, tell them - don't say thanks, instead help others whenever you can and ask them to do the same.”
“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”
“When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“When someone thinks they are getting away with something, they're easier to manipulate. They stop looking closely at the things that might make it feel like their lie is unraveling, and they reveal things they didn't mean to.”
Source: Magic for Liars
“When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.”
“When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top!”
“When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'”
“When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.”
“When someone tries to derail an argument with an insult, your response depends on who the audience is. If the two of you are alone, say something like, “This isn’t recess. I’m out of here,” and walk away. You’re not about to persuade the jerk. But if there are bystanders, ridicule the insult. “So Bob’s answer to the problem of noise in this town is that I’m a jerk. Was that helpful to you all?” You turn sophistry into genuine banter.”
Source: Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
“When someone tries to pull you into the mud, remember that they have to get dirty just to reach you; stay on the high ground and let the rain wash them away.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“When someone truly loves you, they knit their soul towards yours. You are their true affection.
It is only here where true jealousy in her most glorious state is given the holiness to reign. A true lover then, is more than just human, they are your poiema; your special poem. And all of hell erupts at the thought of someone else singing your song.”
“When someone trusts you
gift them your trustworthiness.”
Source: Uns
“When someone try to be nice with you, it is the soon that one day he or she will leave you.”
“When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group”
“When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.”
Source: Just as I Am
“When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.”
“When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.”
“When someone walks into your life and shows you a different world, know that it's okay & life gets even better than before, so enjoy the ride.”