W Quotes
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“When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.”
“When the teachings of Christ were implicitly followed, the lives of females improved dramatically.”
Source: The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns
“When the team members have achieved a deep understanding of the current state and they are mapping on consecutive days, designing the future state often occurs organically- as long as people are open to challenging their existing silo-centric paradigms about how and where work should be performed”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“When the tech behemoths claim, as they routinely do, that they couldn’t exist without Section 230, they are only slightly exaggerating. They couldn’t exist without the new and improved Section 230 that they rewrote with the help of the courts.”
“When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.”
“When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.”
Source: Fables: Stevenson's Vol. 18
“When the telephone rang in the middle of the night, I knew.
The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
“When the telescope displaced the miracle, and the microscope unveiled the invisible, faith didn't evaporate; it merely retreated into the ever-shrinking pockets of human ignorance, proving itself a symptom, not a cure, for our fear of the unknown.”
“When the television doctors look worried talking about COVID-19, you know it is far worse than what they are saying.”
“When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“When the tempter me pursueth
With the sins of all my youth,
And half damns me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!”
Source: Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick
“When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).”
“When the tender breeze brought me your fragrance I felt alive!”
“When the tension between "being" and "becoming" is too high, we may be caught in the cycle of perpetual yearning and remain locked in a state of potentiality, forever suspended between wish and fulfillment. If we refuse to commit to concrete steps toward self-actualization, we risk losing our ability to truly engage with the world. ("Like a fallen star")”
“When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.”
“When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.”
“When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.”
“When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.”
“When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“When . . . the therapist registers an unexpected shift of mood in herself when she is with a patient, she begins a private inner dialogue with herself as to what it might mean. First she checks herself out, as though she is an object of study. What does the patient evoke in her? Why did she feel uptight just then? Why did she feel sad when the patient was making a light remark? Did the patient hit a particularly personal nerve? Such emotional states, which the therapist notices in herself, are called the counter-transference. As she cordons off the feelings and reflects on them, their dissonance alerts her: something difficult needs understanding. Her body, her emotional state, become a stethoscope-like instrument for hearing what might be askew.”
Source: Bodies
“When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief”
“When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.”
“When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up.
He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.”
“When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.”
Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
“When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“When the things get hard, there is a success near about.”
Source: I Love the Way You Love Me
“When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.”
“When the thought arises to reach out, express care, or nurture our connections, “immediacy” can prevent “inertia” if we eschew repeated delays and unfulfilled promises. (“All the words he always wanted to tell her”)”
“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.”
“when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.”
Source: Goddess Of The Sea: Number 1 in series
“When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?”
Source: One Taste
“When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Trying to stay young,
Have left us parched and old instead.
When my courage crumbles,
When I feel confused and frail,
When my spirit falters on decaying altars
And my illusions fail --
I go on right then.
I go on again.
I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
I go on.
If tomorrow tumbles
And everything I love is gone,
I will face regret all my days, and yet
I will still go on.”
“When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears.”
“When the tidal waves wildly behaving
My bare feet on the shore busy saving
The calm warmth leaking out of the sand
To let my heart feel peacefully tanned!”
“When the tide gets high, Sail on.
You'll make it safe to the shore,
...And all the hidden treasures will be Yours!”
“When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time”
“when the tides of life toss you around, learn to be shaped by the highs and lows. you will emerge weathered but wiser.”
Source: Submerge
“When the tides of realization rise, words scatter and fade away.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.”
“When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.”
Source: The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
“when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.”
“When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.”
Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.”
“When the time came to move forward, don't even think about to look at back for even a second!”
“When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.”
“When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.”
Source: Earth's Embrace
“When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.”