W Quotes
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“When the realization of what is beneficial and harmful in worldly life sets in, meaning the awareness of all aspects of what is beneficial in worldly life and all aspects of what is harmful in worldly life arises; that is when complete awareness (jagruti) related to worldly life arises. After complete awareness of worldly life has arisen, then the awareness regarding what is beneficial and harmful to the Self arises.”
“When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.”
“When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.”
Source: Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen
“When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.”
“When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.”
“When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again. Today, we are on the verge of a very uncertain situation when either everything will end in catastrophe, or better people will come to power.”
“When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.
Then a banished writer, one of the best,
scanning the list of excommunicated texts,
became enraged: he'd been excluded!
He rushed to his desk, full of contemptuous wrath,
to write fierce letters to the morons in power —
Burn me! he wrote with his blazing pen —
Haven't I always reported the truth?
Now here you are, treating me like a liar!
Burn me!”
“When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.”
Source: The transfer agreement: the untold story of the secret agreement between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
“When the release never comes, it turns into torture. There is nothing worse than to be perpetually on the verge of heaven, while trapped always in hell.”
Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery
“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.”
Source: Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
“When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no escape from it, and then I don't think it's something you should try to hide your face from.”
“When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.”
“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”
“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”
Source: Story of a Girl
“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”
“When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.”
“When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.”
“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”
“When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. Here's what cheering is: "Look at me!" That's what cheering is. Cheering is not "Hey, I agree with what you're saying"; cheering is "I'm liking this more than anybody else!"”
“When the response to mistakes, failures, and misunderstandings is emotional, psychological, economic, and physical punishment, we breed a culture of fear, secrecy, and isolation.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.”
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature
“When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.”
Source: The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman
“When the rest of the mind has fled, sometimes there’s music left.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“When the rest of the world watches the news from America, they see a third world dumpster fire. A failed state.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.”
“When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“When the result exceeds expectations
inspiration is born...
Когато резултатът надмине очакванията
се ражда вдъхновението...”
“When the results are not there, work. When the results are there, work.”
“When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.”
Source: Liberace: an autobiography
“When the revolutionaries say they want to ‘change’ the world, they mean they want to heal it, but the conservatives hear the word as ‘destroy’.”
“When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.”
“When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.”
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.”
“When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.”
“When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.”
“When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.”
“When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.”
“When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same social circles. Perhaps it's now the custom in those circles to host your daughter's wedding reception at home rather than in a hotel or country club. So the near rich feel they too need a house with a ballroom. And when they build bigger, they shift the frame of reference for the group just below them, and so on, all the way down.”
“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis
“When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.”
“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
“When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.”
“When the ‘right belief’ occurs, the world will appear quite different. ‘Right belief’ will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the ‘wrong belief’ will take one towards the worldly life.”
“When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass.”
“When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.”
“When the right person hugs you, it's like medicine. I'm so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul.”
“When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
“When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”
Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren