W Quotes
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“When truth confronts you, allow it.
When proof opposes you, accept it.
When error encounters you, challenge it.
When deception engages you, shun it.
When rational annoys you, permit it.
When knowledge enlightens you, appreciate it.
When understanding protects you, value it.
When wisdom helps you, cherish it.
When intuition guides you, treasure it.
When education inspires you, revere it.
When doubt discourages you, defy it.
When despair demoralizes you, repel it.
When bitterness disheartens you, resist it.
When anger depresses you, attack it.
When hatred harasses you, disown it.
When joy strengthens you, welcome it.
When faith preserves you, encourage it.
When patience upholds you, harbor it.
When peace comforts you, nourish it.
When love uplifts you, cultivate it.”
“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
“When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.”
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
“When truth is divided, errors multiply.”
“When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.”
“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
“When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
“When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sparklesoup Classics)
“When truth looks in the mirror, virtue looks out.
When courage looks in the mirror, faith looks out.
When charity looks in the mirror, love looks out.
When contentment looks in the mirror, peace looks out.”
“When truth only emerges after power fades,
it is not conviction—it is convenience.
Silence in privilege, and noise in rejection,
is not principle—it’s manipulation.
Thus, we must always question
the sincerity of those who suddenly find their voice
only after losing proximity to power.
For such a late awakening
smells more of selfishness
than of selflessness.”
“When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.”
Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
“When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.”
“When Trying To Achieve Your Dreams, Never Let Anyone or Anything Stand in Your Way”
“When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.”
Source: Poetry and Poets: Essays
“When trying to fathom an immense, intricate system, drawing direct arrows of causality between micro and macro-components is perilous. Which stock caused the crash of ’29? Which person triggered the outbreak of World War I? Which word of Poe’s “The Rave” suffuses it with an atmosphere of brooding melancholy?”
Source: A General Theory of Love
“When trying to forget a tragedy it is impossible when you are Immortal.”
Source: Deception in the Stars
“When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.”
“When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.”
“When trying to ‘see the forest for the trees,’ you can’t see the forest when completely lost in the thick of it or when stuck in one particular tree.”
Source: In Limbo
“When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.”
“When trying to turn a minus into a plus you can create another minus.”
“When Tucker glanced in Becca's direction and saw her watching, he smiled and winked. That one move, just a wink, made her knees go weak. She swallowed hard and knew with complete certainty, she was going to do it - she was going to spend the night with him.”
Source: One Night with a Cowboy
“When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.”
“When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.”
“When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.”
“When turkeys mate they think of swans.”
“When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.”
Source: The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
“When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.”
“When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.”
“When twilight sleeps holding the night
In your arms you embrace me tight
Runaway hours clenched by kisses
More of your love my heart misses”
“When two agree in their desire,
One sparke will set them both on fire.”
“when two aliebns find each other in a strange place, it feels a little more like home.”
Source: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
“When two are together and one cannot rise, the other can only fall.”
Source: For Better For Worse: Essays on Sex, Love, Marriage, and More
“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united, standing shoulder to shoulder so evil can never cheat and divide them.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.”
“When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.”
Source: William Butler Yeats
“When two countries go to war, they are naturally inclined to make an ostentatious display of their strength. Yet our spies have seen nothing but old age and infirmity. This is surely some ruse on the part of the enemy, and it would be unwise for us to attack.”
“When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough.”
“When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.”
“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
“When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.”
“When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.”
“When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.”
“When two educationist fight, thoughts are crafted. However, when two fools fight blood is shed.”
Source: Trust
“When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.”