W Quotes
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“When the lights go off in a movie theatre, everyone becomes this one entity: the audience watching the film. And most films aim to get the same emotions out of people. The same reactions. To laugh or be scared or cry or be inspired. The audience goes in as individuals and comes out as people who’ve all experienced the same thing, are all feeling the same way.”
Source: This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
“When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.”
“When The Lights Go Out by Stewart Stafford
When the lights go out,
From the seeds of doubt,
Phantoms come a-skittering.
Slow at first,
Then, as if a dam burst,
My psyche starts withering.
From a dune of sand,
Grabs a clawing hand,
My heartbeat takes to dithering.
Then an immovable object,
A vast shadow standing erect,
My paralysis is blithering.
But come the dawn of day,
I can finally break away,
My consciousness starts filtering.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“When the lights go out, the parents cry and ask each other what did he do to her, but the girls are burning with a question of their own: what did she do? What does she know now that makes her so dangerous, like the slow amber leak of a noxious fume?”
Source: The Rehearsal
“When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn”
“When the likes and dislikes of the heart are totally sound then one's actions will follow this, in so far as one is able to act; but the fullness of the reward is due to the sincerity of the heart.”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”
Source: Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything
“When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that’s wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!”
“When the line is delivered, Hamlet is gazing on Yorrick's skull, casually unearthed by the gravedigger. Yorrick's fame grew out of being the line which accompanied what is perhaps the single most recognizable iconic image in literature: a man in black, considering a human skull. Show some form of that picture to most moderately educated people and plenty who aren't and they'll know that the man is Hamlet. Such things don't find their way into the popular consciousness by accident and trivial though the line may sound, it speaks to the heart of the play: a man compelled by circumstances outside of his control to confront his own mortality.”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.”
“When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.”
“When the lion feels old and weak، he chooses loneliness.”
“When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.”
Source: Reflections
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all the mice in the district, in their holes were overcome by trembling and shaking; with eyes blinking uncontrollably they gazed at each other one by one, while their tails scraped the ground busily and senselessly. Then they came out, hesitantly, pushing one another, all drawn towards the scene of death. There it lay, the dear little mouse, its neck caught in the deadly iron, the little pink legs drawn up, and now stiff the feeble body that would so well have deserved a scrap of bacon.
The parents stood beside it and eyed their child's remains.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.”
“When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.”
“When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.”
“When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.”
Source: Songs of the Mist
“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.”
“When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.”
“When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.”
Source: Quiet as moss: thirty-six poems
“When the longhorns could be gathered up and driven, it was theorized that the heat from the herd's mass attracted lightning. (Such was the radiant heat from a large herd that a cowboy's face would be blistered on whichever side of the herd he'd ridden by the day's end.) Their great horns also seemed to attract electricity, so that lightning and ground-electricity would bounce around from horn to horn throughout the herd - a phantasmagoric burning blue circuitry. The cracking of the cowboy's whips and the twitching of the cattle's tails also emitted sparkling "snakes of fire.”
Source: The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest
“When the longing for discovery pushes you to a profound exploration of the self, the unknown becomes known, the real becomes surreal and the lowly turns sublime. It then becomes a descent into life as you journey between the valleys and mountains and beneath the ordinary, a world of extraordinary beauty is exploding inside.”
“When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.”
“When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.”
“When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.”
“When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.”
“When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.”
“When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.”
Source: Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks
“When the lord gives a human a life to live with and all the things they need, why do the humans give back the money to the lord ? Are humans that crazy ? Or do we have a mask of saying it out instead of delivering what is called as mankind ?”
“When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power.”
“When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.”
Source: Scientific Christian Mental Practice
“When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.”
“When the LORD leaves us to captain our lives, giving us over to our reprobate mind, it is a clear sign of judgment. No more can we witness the protective hand of the LORD. All that we should remember is that we have unquenchable wrath ready to consume our being. The LORD is a gentle shepherd, at the same time, He is also the worst enemy.”
“When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.”
“When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.”
“When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.”
“When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well...What is important is the whole journey by which we arrive at the mission the Lord entrusts to us...when the Lord gives a mission, He always has us enter into a process, a process of purification, a process of discernment, a process of obedience, a process of prayer.”
“When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.”
“When the loss of a mother results in family chaos or feelings of abandonment, even the risk of subsequent loss can cause anxiety in the child and inspire behaviors designed to preserve the status quo. As the child matures, this anxiety may extend to concerns beyond and unrelated to the original loss, turning her into an adult who has difficulty making decisions out of fear of catastrophic results. Taking chances may feel too risky to her, and instead she seeks safety through controlling whatever aspects of her life she can.”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!”
“When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.
'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.
'I will,' said Gabriel.
And she smiled on him again.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“When the love of God is absent from friendships, friends don’t become platonic friends anymore; they become boyfriends and girlfriends.”
“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”
Source: Trumpet: Picador Classic
“When the love walks with an innocent morning,
the empathy of an unheard song will mean the world to me”
“When the love walks with an innocent morning,
the empathy of an unheard song will the world to me.”