W Quotes
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“When the environment says, "Give up," heart whispers, "Try it once again.”
“When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world.”
“When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.”
“When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.”
“When the establishment chooses you, it's politics; when the people choose you, it's a movement.”
Source: Words of a Klassikan
“When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.”
Source: Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
“When the eternal God looked at my record and said, “Michael is found guilty, the penalty of his crimes is death and his crimes must be paid for in hell,” Jesus didn’t just sit there pleading for my forgiveness saying, “Please forgive Michael. Please have mercy on him.” No, He made a case for me and got a verdict on my behalf. He took the penalty on Himself and fulfilled everything that the law required.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.”
“When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life.”
“When the evening comes, prepare yourself for the morrow ~Donald Pillai”
“When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“When the evil forces try their best to harm you, then the angelic beings work together to protect you!”
“When the evil in him masters the good and has its way, it destroys other people through him, but it also destroys him. At the close of the struggle he has vanished, and has left behind him nothing that can stand. What remains is a family, a city, a country, exhausted, pale and feeble, but alive through the principle of good which animates it; and, within it, individuals who, if they have not the brilliance or greatness of the tragic character, still have won our respect and confidence. And the inference would seem clear. If existence in an order depends on good, and if the presence of evil is hostile to such existence, the inner being or soul of this order must be akin to good.”
Source: Shakespearean Tragedy
“When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.”
Source: Caviar and Cabbage
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
Source: U and I: A True Story
“When the expectations fail, reasons should not be shouldered to meet the expectations.”
“When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“When the experience speaks, the youth listens, learns, is inspired and imitates.”
“When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!”
“When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.”
“When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.”
“When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.”
Source: Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality
“When the eye meets what is not beautiful—when it stumbles upon the grotesque—it’s not just a fleeting inconvenience. It’s a violation. A crack in the order of things. A mockery of the universe’s relentless attempts to weave harmony into chaos.”
Source: Four of a Kind
“When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“When the eye sees blackness, the mind sees trouble.”
Source: Les Misérables
“When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.”
Source: Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action
“When the eyes are teary and lips are dreary, never consider sitting still.
Obliterate loyalty to atrocities of the norm waking up to liberationville.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“When the eyes meet while making out, souls speak to each other.”
“When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.”
“When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.”
Source: O Pioneers!
“When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.”
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.”
“When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.”
“When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.”
“When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.”
“When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.”
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
“When the facts change, I change my mind.”
“When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.”
“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to
struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.”
Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.”
“When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”
“When the faithful are asked whether God really exists, they often begin by talking about the enigmatic mysteries of the universe and the limits of human understanding. ‘Science cannot explain the Big Bang,’ they exclaim, ‘so that must be God’s doing.’ Yet like a magician fooling an audience by imperceptibly replacing one card with another, the faithful quickly replace the cosmic mystery with the worldly lawgiver. After giving the name of ‘God’ to the unknown secrets of the cosmos, they then use this to somehow condemn bikinis and divorces. ‘We do not understand the Big Bang – therefore you must cover your hair in public and vote against gay marriage.’ Not only is there no logical connection between the two, but they are in fact contradictory. The deeper the mysteries of the universe, the less likely it is that whatever is responsible for them gives a damn about female dress codes or human sexual behaviour.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“When the Faithful open their hearts to a life of Faith, the will of God prevails.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“When the familiar landscape of your days begins to fade, and the light that once brought clarity softens to a dim glow, do not fear the shadows that stretch long before you. The colors that once painted your world may now appear drained, but in their quiet retreat, a new vision is born. This unfamiliar space, where certainty dissolves, invites you to slow down and breathe, to trust the unfolding of what is yet to be seen.”
“When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“When the family dies, the nation follows.”