W Quotes
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“When the south wing collapses, there could be flying debris," Father remarked. "Any one of us could be injured." He sounded very cheerful about this. 'Best to stop on our way home and see the Silent Brothers.”
Source: Nothing but Shadows
“When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.”
“When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.”
Source: National and international dimensions
“When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.”
“When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.”
“When the Spaniards first arrived in Mexico, natives bearing incense burners were assigned to accompany them wherever they went. The Spaniards thought it was a mark of divine honour. We know from native sources that they found the newcomers’ smell unbearable.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“When the spark of sarcasm ignites the fire of cynicism, you might find yourself on the harlequin-pyre before even noticing it.”
“When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.”
“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”
“When the spectre of the monotony he’s escaped sometimes rises in memory, it’s like childhood: another time entirely, a planet to which you can never return after leaving, a womb that nourished you until you were ready to breathe on your own.”
Source: Universal Harvester
“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”
Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949
“When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted.”
“When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.”
“When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.”
Source: By Love Transformed
“When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.”
“When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.”
“When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.”
“When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.”
“When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.”
“When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.”
“When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.”
Source: Portraits of Devotion
“When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!”
“When the Spirit of the Lord gets into your heart,
You live in Spirit and You are filled with His Spirit.”
“When the spirit shines with the flames of morality, there remains no question, confusion or compliance - all that there persists, is you being the manifestation of morality absolute.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
“When the spoiled child within us is bent on ranting until they get what they want, the best punishment might be to give it to them.”
“When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.”
Source: The Works of Daniel Webster ...
“When the spotlight is on its too late to prepare. You'll only have two options: Sink or Swim”
“When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.”
“When the stakes are high, bow down low.”
“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”
“When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.”
“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”
“When the stars came out that night, I sat in the garden on a small stone bench and I read the letter that Will had
written first. My head had decided that it would be easier to read before my heart could feel too hard about what he might have written.
My head was wrong. My heart cried with sadness and with joy. They were perfect words, written by a perfect man. They were words so filled with heartbreak, love and compassion that I held my breath throughout reading every single word. Words have the power to break you or to fix you. That night, sitting under those stars and reading those words, they seemed to be the glue that slowly started to fix my broken heart.”
Source: What it's Like to Keep Living
“When the stars fall into darkness, I will quietly shine for you.”
“When the stars imploded billions of years ago, iron and silver, gold and carbon came raining down. And the iron from that stardust is in us today-in our mitochondria. Mothers pass on the stars and their iron to their children. Who knows, Jean, you and I might be made of the dust from one and the same star, and maybe we recognized each other by its light. We were searching for each other. We are star seekers.”
Source: The Little Paris Bookshop
“When the stars swim in the sea of night, opening in the dark as silver blossoms, there's life in the veins, sending shoots of thrill.
This is the light, shouting in the dark, to sense ecstasy, while still alive.
This is the thrust from the lifeless to life, telling us, we are more than a body, more than a flesh.
This is when the burning begins for something of the otherworld.”
“When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears
- William Blake”
Source: Acid for the Children
“When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
“When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.”
“When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.”
“When the State institutions overstep their pre-defined boundaries in the Constitution and become bigger than the State itself, it is time to de-fund them.
The taxpayers should never allow any such institute to hijack the State and hold the general public as a hostage.”
“When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.”
“When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.”
“When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.”
“When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.”
“When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.”