W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.”
“When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!”
“When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.”
“When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.”
“When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them”
Source: Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism
“When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.”
“When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.”
“when the if and of the when and of and when and the of and you and then and if”
Source: SEX TOYS BY LENA THE PLUG
“When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.”
“When the ill wind blows into our life, it leaves a devastation emotional unbalance, it blows away all the things we though it was important but we realise they were not that important after all, but this moment in the eye of the storm, can leave us wrecked upon the shores of life, and yet this to shall pass, as all the other storms we faced in our life, that has come and gone through the years, it arrives in twos and threes, and our emotions are rattled and shaken like the leaves on the trees, this phenomena is not for the select few in the world, but it comes to us all, its called upon the invisible writings of life, as part of life, this storm in life can be found in Grieving, in Love, in disappointment, this invisible writing in the book of life, comes to us, in times of good times and bad times, it is the measure of life, its called living, its called experiencing, its called the invisible book of life that we all collectively experience one time or another, it is written in friendship, laughter a hope for tomorrow, we don’t know what pages in life this invisible writing will come and find us, or in what form, it can be happy or sad, depending on what is going on around you and how you react to everything around you, we are work in progress we are fragile, we are strong, sometimes we even feel invisible, everything passes as life itself passes, as we age and grow old, our thinking becomes more clear, to the events of life and the challenges of life, and we no longer have the desire to compete in the trivial things of competition in life to have this or that thinking it will make us happier, if your not happy in this blessed moment as who you are what you stand for and what you represent in life, if you had the whole wealth in the world this would not make you happy, Love is the power plant the transformer of life that lets you keep beauty grace and elegance intact, though the journey of life, from beginning to the end”
“When the image is new, the world is new.”
“When the image of the church is a speeding bus that will not stop even for its own leaders, we know that the logic of acceleration has captured our imagination.”
“When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy rises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms.”
Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... 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 the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos”
Source: Complete Poems
“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.”
“When the… incident is brought up, it causes a conflict of drives and memories within me that draw upon disproportionate computational power. It endangers the efficiency of my processes,’ [explained Uncharles].
‘That is the longest-winded way of saying it upsets you that I ever heard,’ the Wonk noted.”
Source: Service Model
“When the Indian British government footprinted Mahatma Gandhi to wear their dress material, he preferred to weave his own dress material and when my government footprinted me to stop my education, I preferred to educate myself, like the father of my nation, like the son of his nation”
“When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.”
Source: Patience & Sarah
“When the individual consciousness and social consciousness become one, the slightest trace of human act can trigger a tsunami of change in the world. When the illusory separation between the self and the society is demolished by the ambition-less will of the self, all that there remains is peace, piety and progress.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“When the individual feels, the community reels.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“When the individual people have the freedom to engage in permaculture activity, the effect is that ultimately the standards of living are improved for everyone, such that poverty is ultimately eradicated and even the people with the least among all still enjoy considerable wealth. When government or central planning agencies forcefully redistribute wealth, it has the ultimate effect of eradicating wealth such that eventually most people among all are poor; while even those people who have some temporary riches do not have real wealth”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”
“When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.”
“When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.”
“When the inevitable meets the unstoppable, that is where souls turn to lust...”
Source: الحب الضائع
“When the infamous Shotts riot of ‘93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friend’s cell, smoking hash, waiting for the riot to end. Dingus had seen all the crazy shit before.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
Source: The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…
“When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.”
“When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.”
Source: The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
“When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.”
“When the injustice on earth considered as justice, expect a strong response from heaven.”
“When the ink runs dry, you're most likely writing at the wrong angle.”
“When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.”
“When the inner perspective changes, the outer circumstances re-align themselves accordingly.”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“When the insect carry its load, it is with its head that it will carry it. Owner of sicknesses and diseases, carry your loads with your head, in Jesus name.”
“When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!”
“When the institution of transnational corporations and the phenomenon of consumerism emerged in the early twentieth century, nobody could have predicted the dominant role that corporatism and consumerism were destined to play in American capitalism and in American empire-building.”
Source: Lost in Transformation: South Africa's Search for a New Future Since 1986
“When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.”
“When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.”
Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings
“When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.”
“When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.”
Source: The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism
“When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“When the intents of like and dislike arise in sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), keeping tolerance in it, (and) to not put blame on any one is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“when the interest of the AI owner diverges from the interest of the AI users, the users lose”