W Quotes
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“When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.”
“When the internet came along, everybody said it would mean the death of television, newspapers. There is a dip, and it comes back to a new normal. We're in the dip; we're waiting to see what the new normal is.”
“When the internet came in, Hulaki became a dinosaur.”
Source: Hulaki
“When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.”
“When the internet is silent, children will learn that there is a whole new world outside.”
“When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.”
“When the invader stomps on innocent lives, not choosing a side is a consent to oppression.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.”
“When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?”
“When the invisible wall between two secret gardens crumbles down, it may provoke an irreparable emotional earth slide or it may be an unexpected opportunity of building a newfangled bridge between clandestine desires and furtive impulses. .( "No handkerchief, when you need it")”
“When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it.”
“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”
“When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.”
“When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.”
“When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.”
“When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.”
Source: Critical Writings
“When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.”
“When the iron is hot, strike.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“When the islands were taken over, the princess,
Ka’iulani, who had been tricked out of her kingdom cried out to Aloha Ke Akua.” The dots danced into the figure of a young woman, broken-hearted, sobbing on the floor beside her bed.
“Aloha Ke Akua’s heart was torn apart by what he saw, so in one last act he touched the island of O’ahu.” The dots formed a giant hand and finger that touched the shape of the island.
“And created Hunaia Awāwa. A sanctuary. The resting place of the resting place.”
Source: Islanders: The Pacific Chronicles
“When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.”
“When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.”
“When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.”
Source: Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works
“When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.”
Source: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.”
“When the Japanese invaded, informers said mother was an important member of the resistance. She was taken in, badly tortured and never confessed. Her life was spared because the Japanese interrogators could not believe a woman could have held such a key role.
When her children were grown-up, mother would tell us, ‘It’s not as bad as it sounds. The first time, you’re scared you’ll give away your friends. But there comes a point when you pass out. Once that happens, you cannot feel pain anymore. Once you have learnt that, you can beat your torturers.”
Source: From Beirut to Jerusalem
“When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.”
“When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.”
Source: The Late Great Planet Earth
“When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.”
“When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.”
“When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.”
“When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.”
“When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.”
“When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened and showed her how the possibility of many personalities in a single body was philosophically untenable. MPD did not fit into Steve's system of beliefs, and therefore it did not exist.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.”
Source: Authority and the Individual
“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”
“When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.”
“When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.”
Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet
“When the Judge Imposter is our superpower, we’re able to see the world with clarity and impartiality. But when this Imposter works against us, it feeds our judgmental nature and we become our own worst critic. Integrating the Judge Imposter is a noble act that comes through self-awareness and the ongoing practice of truth-telling.”
“When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.”
“When the judiciary is the midwife of tyranny, the law becomes the most lethal weapon of a fascist state.”
“When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.”
“When the jump is beyond, you don’t need to solve every tiny problem one at a time.”
Source: HOW PEOPLE WASTE TIME IN SPIRITUALITY?: The Struggle of Modern Mind to Access the Real Essence
“When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.”
“When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).”
“When the kid began to flag, Riley picked her up, swung her onto his back, and kept running. The leopard in Mercy growled in approval - whatever his faults (and they were many and legend), Riley knew how to take care of the innocent.”
Source: Branded by Fire
“When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.”