W Quotes
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“When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.”
“When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.”
“When the world slows down in its song of melancholy, I know, it's October, gently coming.”
“When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.”
Source: The Mystery of Providence
“When the world spins like a cricket ball,
I stand still,
I stand still,
I stand still!”
“When the world stands against you break out your spiritual pepper spray - The promises of God!”
“When the world starts to feel unrecognizable, look to what still grows without permission. That’s where the truth is hiding.”
“When the world stops, time stops.”
“When the world tells us that it is impossible and when the world is falling from underneath us, and we have no where to turn, I feel the safest. For I know that you are there, and you won't let anything happen to me. When that same world tells us that this isn't meant to be,
and that we aren't ready for a life of commitment and adulthood, I still feel the safest. Because I know that you will always be there with me, for you are committed to me, and I am committed to you. I swear to you, in this moment when all of the world is watching and filled with doubts, when the entire world is slowly dying, that I will never leave your side. I want to live my life with you, and I want to die with you. I vow to you to always be true, be faithful, and be not only a wife, but a friend and comforter. My heart is all I can give you; it is all that I own. Therefore I give you my all. I give you everything that I have."
-Lily Potter”
Source: Forever Alive
“When the world throws rocks at you, turn them into diamonds.”
“When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.”
“When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.”
“When the world turns quiet around me, I don’t chase echoes—I become the voice. Their silence isn’t rejection, it’s redirection. I rise not because they called, but because destiny did.”
“When the world wants too much
And it feels cold and out of touch
It's a beautiful place
When you kiss my face
from The Woman In Me”
“When the world was born, everybody was naked.”
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
“When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.”
“When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.”
“When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again”
Source: Life... Love... Kumbh...
“When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.”
Source: Love Poems
“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“When the writer cannot convince his Super-Ego of the "harmlessness" of his imagination, he has no ideas at all. If however, he clears that hurdle but cannot obtain approval of his (harmless) exhibitionism in "writing it down," he cannot write.”
Source: The Writer and Psychoanalysis
“When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages, I don't do email. I take breaks only to read, and usually I read poetry. When it's not going well, I just lie in bed and eat chocolate.”
“When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”
Source: Chaos Magic
“When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.”
“When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.”
“When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.”
“When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.”
“When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.”
“When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.”
Source: Quiet Dell: A Novel
“When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.”
“When the years are dying in the arms of your life,
the earth is in pain moving around the sun.”
“When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.”
Source: The Master's Violin
“When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed.”
“When the young person in question is an agnostic whose ancestors were Puritans, you get a very regrettable state of mind. The Puritan conscience works on without the Puritan theology—like millstones grinding nothing; like digestive juices working on an empty stomach and producing ulcers. The unhappy youth applies to literature all the scruples, the rigorism, the self-examination, the distrust of pleasure, which his forebears applied to the spiritual life; and perhaps soon all the intolerance and self-righteousness.”
“When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.”
“When the young rise, the old myths tremble.”
“When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.”
“When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.”
“When the youth or children describe freedom as being able to drink alcohol freely without supervision, being judged, rebuked, stopped or punished. To be bold, beautiful, proud, confident and being able to express yourself it means you must be naked. Then we had failed as a society or nation to set good example for the youth. Their future doesn’t look bright either. There will be burden instead of a solution to the society.”
“When the Æsir saw Odin flying, they placed their vats in the courtyard, and when Odin entered Asgard he spat the mead into the vats. It was such a close call, with Suttung almost catching him, that he blew some of the mead out of his rear. No one paid attention to this part, and whoever wanted it took it; we call this the bad poets’ portion.”
Source: The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
“When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.”
“When their absence stops bothering you, their presence starts bothering you.”
“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“When their bodies met, she gave a startled gasp. And then he moved against her, and her gasp became a low, sweet sigh.
'Yes.'
"That's it." He rocked his hips against her. "Do you feel it? It's only the beginning, mo chridhe."
She shut her eyes. Her dark lashes fluttered against her cheeks. "You truly must kiss me when you do that."
Logan obliged her, this time pressing his lips to hers.
As he sank into the lush heat of her kiss, a wildness gathered and growled within him.
He wanted her. All of her. Under him. Surrounding him. Taking him into her softness and heat.”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“When their chatter died to a contented lull, a small red squirrel ventured out of the oak grove and turned to the side, watching them with one bright black eye.
"An intruder," Annabelle observed, with a delicate yawn.
Evie rolled to her stomach and tossed a bread crust in the squirrel's direction. He froze and stared at the tantalizing offering, but was too timid to advance. Evie tilted her head, her hair glittering in the sun as if it had been overlaid with a net of rubies. "Poor little thing," she said softly, casting another crust at the timid squirrel. This one landed a few inches closer, and his tail twitched eagerly. "Be brave," Evie coaxed. "Go on and take it." Smiling tolerantly, she tossed another crust, which landed a scant few inches from him. "Oh, Mr. Squirrel," Evie reproved. "You're a dreadful coward. Can't you see that no one's going to harm you?"
In a sudden burst of initiative, the squirrel seized the tidbit and scampered off with his tail quivering. Looking up with a triumphant smile, Evie saw the other wallflowers staring at her in drop-jawed silence. "Wh-what is it?" she asked, puzzled.
Annabelle was the first to speak. "Just now, when you were talking to that squirrel, you didn't stammer."
"Oh." Suddenly abashed, Evie lowered her gaze and grimaced. "I never stammer when I'm talking to children or animals. I don't know why.”
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.”