W Quotes
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“When the poet finds it advisable to repeat a given description or incident, he makes this repeated passage coincide with the original to the very last detail. Thus when a god or hero orders his messenger to deliver a message, this message, no matter how long and detailed, is given twice in the text, first when the messenger is instructed by his master, and a second time when the message is actually delivered.”
Source: Sumerian Mythology
“When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.”
“When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.”
“When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies.”
“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.”
Source: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
“When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.”
“When the police are corrupt, the government is also corrupt.”
“When the police are messing me around, I take comfort in the knowledge that I will be filing a police internal affairs complaint regarding the incident.”
“When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.”
“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“When the police cracked down, did the sex workers simply move one or two streets over?
...
Was there displacement? There was not.
It turns out that most [sex workers] would rather try something else, leave the field entirely, change their behavior, than shift their location.”
Source: Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers
“When the police enforce the law, they do so unevenly, in ways that give disproportionate attention to the activities of poor people, people of color, and others near the bottom of the social pyramid. And when the police violate the law, these same people are their most frequent victims. This is a coincidence too large to overlook. If we put aside, for the moment, all questions of legality, it must become quite clear that the object of police attention, and the target of police violence, is overwhelmingly that portion of the population that lacks real power.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“When the police found Brynn that fall, Adam had no explanation. Shattered wrists, sunken face, and a broken leg – it was never clear what had happened. Bailey found her at the bottom of the stairs and called for help. Adam sat in the parlor, tipping cigarillo ash into the glass tray. Though the charges for assault were dismissed due to lack of evidence, Bailey couldn’t escape her suspicions, and by Christmas, she moved away. The divorce papers arrived in the mailbox, crinkled and brief. Adam pulled them from the box and walked toward the house. Looking up, he was sure he saw something falling from the sky.”
Source: In Her Arms: A Child of Lily Ames
“When the police, magistrates, and prosecutors receive incentives from criminals or benefit from crime, there will be no justice, and criminals will never be punished for their actions. Criminals will live like kings, and crime will remain high and continue to rise.”
“When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.”
“When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.”
“When the police withhold requested records from their victim, it does make the victim wonder what is in the records that they do not want to be witnessed.”
“When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them”
“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”
“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”
“When the poor have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
“When the poor man loose control of the best in himself... it ain't his fault at all, it is the fault of people who go 'round making poppits of other poor people.”
Source: In the Castle of My Skin
“When the pop culture is littered with TV shows that portray men as rapists, brutes and predators and women as the never ending victims no matter how much power they acquire, no matter how much the decks are stacked in their favor politically, they're still portrayed as weak and victims and not fairly paid and so forth. And all men want to do is get along.”
“When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.”
“When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.”
Source: Handbook for the Positive Revolution
“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”
Source: The Long-Legged House
“When the possible doesn't fit, one must take a closer look at the impossible.”
Source: Bloodfire Quest
“When the power goes out, we jump up to...To what? It's weird. We're so used to electricity, when it's gone, we don't know what to do. So we jump up or squeal or start jabbering like idiots. We panic. It's like someone cut off our oxygen.”
“When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!”
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
“When the power of the shift rips the human body apart and transforms it into its new shape, there lives a second, less than a second, a mere shimmer of time when the mind is without a home, no body to call its own. Existence is painless in there, nothing but formlessness beyond understanding. A secret place, it contains nothing but the essence of self, a lost self. In the fire of pain, Colton found a whisper of that place, its ghost, its echo, and from that echo he withdrew a thread of deepest black.”
Source: A Thread of Deepest Black
“When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.”
“When the powerful wisdom that understands the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear. Beyond the ego—the agitated, uncontrolled mind—lie everlasting peace and satisfaction. That’s why Lord Buddha prescribed penetrative analysis of both your positive and your negative sides. In particular, when your negative mind arises, instead of being afraid, you
should examine it more closely.”
Source: Becoming Your Own Therapist
“When the praying does no good, insurance does help.”
Source: The Mother
“When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.”
“When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.”
“When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.”
“When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!”
“When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.”
“When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.”
“When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.”
“When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.”
“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”
“When the president Donald Trump has leaked out what happens in his phone calls, and he's really taking on some of our dearest allies and partners around the world, people don't know what to expect and whether they can rely on the United States anymore.”
“When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.”
“When the president, government, politicians, or leaders feed you lies, the truth is that they are the ones behind the suffering, oppression, and problems you are experiencing.”