W Quotes
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“When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By recognizing ourselves in the light of our history, we become aware of what we are. ("Going back to yesterday")”
“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.”
Source: Religion: An Introductory Reader
“When the past is altered, the future is altered too (episode 10).”
Source: Marry My Husband - Tome 1
“When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise again.”
Source: Dark Rise
“When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable”
“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”
“When the past is your enemy, all you have is the present.”
Source: Malice
“When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.”
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
“When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.”
“When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.”
“When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.”
“When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long.”
“When the path is unclear, the best step forward is always the one aligned with doing what is right, this isn't always the easiest, but it's the one path that leads to a truly fulfilled heart”
“When the path seems rough, or you currently feel stuck, keep your goals in sight, and never give up.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“When the path to a noble dream is challenging, there is never a shortage of reasons to give up. But if you never stop trying your hardest, as if the dream is just one step away, one day you will be right.”
“When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.”
“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right”
“When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.”
“When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.”
Source: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
“When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.”
“When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.”
“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.”
“When the pendulum swings and it reaches an extreme on either side, you're going to get a totalitarianism, no matter what it starts out calling itself because once people with extreme ideologies actually get some power - although they may have come in on this will make everything wonderful, except we have to get rid of those people, and there's always a those people that have to be gotten rid of - and then that doesn't happen, and they've got some power. And they quite enjoy it, and they wish to retain it.
So the American experiment, one of the hallmarks of it was peaceful transfer of power. That is what we consider, you know, one of the absolute key elements of an open liberal democracy. And when you see that starting to be shut down and going away, rule of law goes out the window, another kind of law replaces it, which is joined at the hip with whoever's running the thing. And if you get on the bad side of that, you're kind of doomed because you're not going to get a fair trial, and you're probably going to get a bullet in the back of the neck.”
“When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.”
“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."”
“When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.”
Source: Considerations on Representative Government
“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.”
“When the people begin to go to the hospitals because they are bleeding from the ears, eyes and mouths, then the world will understand what they has been used in the war.
Fresh oxygen will save those who can be saved.”
“When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.”
Source: Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom
“When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.”
Source: Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment
“When the people come for you, your choice is already made. All you can do is lift up the light God sets in your hand. That light don’t belong to you anyway. It’s not yours to hide.”
Source: The Time of Our Singing
“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.”
“When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.”
“When the people don't give a damn about reason, they can be manipulated quite easily - and in such cases the perception of the people are manufactured by those controlling the narratives. As a result, ask an Azerbaijani, "who do you think is at fault for the conflict at Nagorno-Karabakh" and they'll say, "Armenia of course" - or ask an Indian, "who do you think is at fault for the conflict at Jammu-Kashmir", they'll say, "Pakistan of course". Hard as it may sound, whoever controls the narrative, controls the people. And the only way to break that spell is to practice reason, but without losing your warmth.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“When the people lead, the leaders will follow.”
“When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.”
“When the people of a state think that violence is normal, then it is a failed state.”
Source: The Timingila
“when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.”
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.”
“When the people prefer indifference, society regresses down the savage curve.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.”
Source: Democracy in America
“When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
“When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.”
Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87