W Quotes
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“When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn't care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer.”
“When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.”
“When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World.”
“When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.”
“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.”
“When they approach with lapis lazuli, accept their offer of clarity.
When they approach with the blue turban of the open country, accept their offering of courage.
When they approach with the twin-egg beads, accept their offering of abundance.
When they approach with the lapis brooch, accept their offering of life.
When they approach with the jeweled measuring rod, accept their offer of beginnings and endings.
When they approach with the sapphire ring, accept their offering of rulership.
When they approach with the glittering eyes, accept their offer of a mother’s love.
For every gift, a terror.
For every radiance, a sacrifice.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.”
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)
“When they are among us cats are angels”
“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
“When they are awake, the spiritually asleep—the vast majority of people—are under the illusion of stepping into, or out of, the present moment.”
“When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is supposed to be, where you left it. Sometimes The Baby moves it, or she takes it with her, and you have to settle for some other toy. You bring it into the living room and set it between your paws as you sleep. It helps you believe that one day you might be a real mother.”
Source: You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend
“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“when they are meant to love you, they would have to fight it to not feel it… it will be in their stars”
“When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.”
“When they are stealing from us and enjoying the money they stole from us. They want to be as far away as they can be from us. When they are caught. They want to be so close to us as they can be. They want us to fight for them. They are not reminding us that they are one of our own.”
“When they are tired of you, they will wish for your retirement”
“When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps of money at it, research it endlessly, and do whatever seems necessary to draw closer to it. You sense real passion there.”
Source: Where the Wild Ladies Are
“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security and that while ma'am had been in the Lords the sniffer dogs had been round and security had confiscated the book. He though it had probably been exploded.
'Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?”
“When they ask you who is your greatest love in life, just smile and do not tell them about me. Your mere smile indicates that I am your eternal and absolute happiness. I love you, the most beautiful person in the universe.”
“When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.”
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
Source: the bell jar
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
Source: the bell jar
“when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?
my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page.”
“When they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again 'NO!' ... one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance.”
“When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.”
“When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.”
Source: the bell jar
“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”
“When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.”
“When they brought in communism it was for the people, so they killed the people. Now they've brought in capitalism, which is for the rich, so they only kill the rich. This time you and I have nothing to worry about.”
Source: Solo
“When they built you brother they broke the mold.”
“When they burst through, a small chain of colorful mountains appeared below them. The range spanned from the deepest, darkest blue to the shiniest, brightest white and everything in between. The foot of each mountain was a single color– midnight blue, mossy green, burnt umber – and this color, whatever it was, was the darkest shade it could be. As the color moved up the mountains, the shade grew lighter and lighter until it reached the peak. The peaks were glorious pastels, shimmering with only the faintest pigment.”
Source: The Lost Track of Time
“When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.”
“When they call it unattainable, it’s the signal to begin.”
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'”
“When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'”
“When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.”
“When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.”
“When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.”
“When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.”
“When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What’s Groton into you? What did Danbury his Hartford? New Haven can wait. Darien’t no place I’d rather I’d rather be.”
Source: Are We There Yet?
“When they can no longer use your craft they call you a witch.”
“When they can't be kind, they start questioning your kindness.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“When they can't control or manipulate you, they smear you.”
“When they can't steal your success, they tarnish your character but at the end, they surrender to your strength.”
“When they can't understand your worth, they call you worthless.”
“When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.”
“When they cannot see value in your ideas or company, do not waste your valuable time trying to convince them otherwise. As long as you know who you are and what you bring to the table of life, care less about what is on other people’s minds.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“When they challenge the innocent morality of the rights regime, anthropologists join a number of political and legal theorists who have asked whether humanitarianism is the new face of colonialism. Some have pointed out the paradoxes of rights-based arguments: that they allow people to make claims, but lock them into fixed identities defined by their injuries rather than freeing them from these identities into a world of equals; or they absolve the perpetrators of past violence by making them the defenders of rights.”
Source: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?