W Quotes
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“When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.”
“When the people under your influence notice that you stopped growing, they look somewhere to get fed; they search for another influencer...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.”
“When the people we meet demonstrate that their presence brings value, consideration, or contribution, we are much more likely to be open, trust their motives, and engage on meaningful levels. However, if their behavior demonstrates that they are only out for themselves, we are more likely to resist, reject, or in some cases, run away.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.”
“When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.”
“When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.”
“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.”
“When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.”
“When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.”
“When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.”
“When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.”
“When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.”
Source: An Object of Beauty
“When the person is no more, the personality is missed.
A vacuum is created, nothing can filled the space.”
“When the person whom you always loved never loves you back, then you love the person who loves you, thinking it would be easy.
But pretending love to someone you don't love is as difficult as actually loving someone who never loved you back.”
“When the person with a chokehold on your soul says, “Jump,” you pack your parachute and hope for a soft landing.”
Source: Wild Card
“When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”
“When the person you love has died, any indication that they once lived is received gratefully, or alternatively, you want to pretend that nothing good has ever taken place in the world.”
Source: Census
“When the person you rely on for support and survival shows themselves to be not what you expected, it can cut deep.”
Source: He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and A Former Addict Answer Your Questions
“When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul that is authentic empowerment.”
“When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“When the petty identities are gone, a human is born.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!”
“When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”
“When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
“when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.”
“When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.”
“when the photo looks deep into your spirit and tells you a thousand stories..... stories from your past even before you existed..... then the photo is way above any description.”
“When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'”
“When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.”
“when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.”
“When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.”
“When the pieces fell around him, he'd pick them up.
It was what he was good at, after all.
Restoring what was once lost, what could never be perfectly whole again.”
Source: Love Restored
“When the pies were taken out of the oven, melted fat was poured in through a hole in the lid to exclude air, thus preserving the contents. Once the pie was cut this airtight seal was broken, leaving the contents prone to rapid spoilage - which perhaps gave rise to the old superstition that it is unlucky to take just one slice from a pie.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“When The Pillar Gets Weary (Dervish Sonnet 2776)
I don't utter a single word that
I wouldn't want to become part of the canon,
but person can't live on discipline alone,
so, having no lover to take my armor off for,
I found a different way to vent my vulnerability -
in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength,
while turkish is quite literally my love language -
english is the language where my brain feels at home,
turkish is the language where my heart finds rest -
none my mothertongue, yet both are my first language,
with spanish as my occasional substitute for english.
English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.
My territory is planet earth -
humanity, my civilization.
Figure what I didn't mention,
you'll learn the law of assimilation.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“When the pirate Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century Úrsula Iguarán's great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove. The burns turned her into a useless for the rest of her days.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“When the plan is executed with pedantism, creativity and innovation are like shadows in a completely dark room.”
“When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.”
“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.”
“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.”
“When the Planters fled from Haiti, they established coffee farms or cafetales, as part of their newly formed Plantation. Generally, coffee profits were about 5%, whereas sugar gave them a 10% return, but much was dependent on the economy and local conditions. Cafetales were easier to start and with as little as 10 slaves, a planter could begin his enterprise. Most of the French plantation owners took great pride in their holdings and beautified their plantations with magnificent palms lining grand entryways and spectacular wrought iron gates. The eastern end of Cuba was still available for development and many big plantations started in this modest way, but eventually the coffee plants were replaced with sugar cane due to the greater profit margin. Though blamed by many as the sole cause for the decline of Cuba’s coffee industry, the U.S. Import Tariff of 1835 was only partially to blame for the fall in coffee production.
From the beginning, the prices of sugar fluctuated and prevented the Cuban economy from ever becoming stable. The first time was when the prices reached a high, during the Peace of Amiens in 1802. The treaty only survived for a year and shortly thereafter prices plunged, when the supply exceeded demand. During the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the price of sugar soared again, until the British conquest of Martinique and Guadeloupe brought the price tumbling down. The following year during the War of 1812 prices rose again, and by 1814 they reached another all-time high. This continued into modern times, creating a feast or famine economy.”
“When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.”
“When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.”
“When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.”
“When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.”
“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.”
“When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.”
“When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.”