W Quotes
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“When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.”
“When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.”
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“When was the last time you found treasure coffers ensconced in your own house? Treasures always hide among old ruins and wreckage.”
Source: مثنوی معنوی
“When was the last time you got laid?”
“Well, my hoodie got caught on the doorknob as I was leaving the house yesterday and the collar choked me. My nipples got hard and my cunt wet. It was the most action I’ve had in three weeks.”
Source: Code of Silence
“When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?
That long?”
Source: Impossible Is Stupid
“When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?”
“When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.”
“When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?”
“When was the last time you kissed somebody new. If you can tackle that fear, you've nothing to fear.”
“When was the last time you looked in the mirror and thought, “Wow, I love every single thing about this face of mine”?
This contemporary face reading system can help make that happen. More traditional systems? Not so much.
Ancient face reading must have some value, or you wouldn’t find it today at places like Ginza, Japan’s deluxe shopping district. But mixed in with the good parts are some very outdated notions.
With all respect to sages from the East who began reading faces around the time that other sages started jabbing each other with acupuncture needles, consider the historical context. Again, with all due respect, haven’t human beings evolved a bit over the last five thousand years?”
Source: The NEW Power of Face Reading
“When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.”
Source: Play of Passion
“When was the last time you noticed the beauty of a cool breeze or the wonder of a starry sky or the vibrancy of a wild flower on the roadside? I used to have the ability to instantly appreciate the beauty of all these when I was a child, but by the time I was twenty it was almost lost. (It took a lot of Zen practice for me to regain it.) The world has not changed that much; there are still summer breezes, night skies, and wild flowers. But where has the perception gone?”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.”
“When was the last time you saw on a menu a chewet (a small, round pie of finely chopped meat or fish, with spices and fruit, 'made taller than a marrow pie'), a dowlet (a small pie of particularly dainty little tidbits), a herbelade or hebolace (a pie with pork mince and herb mixture), a talemouse (a sort of cheesecake, sometimes triangular in shape) or a vaunt (a type of a fruit pie)? these words (and more) were once everyday words in a baker's vocabulary. The only conclusion it is possible to draw is that the loss of so many pie-words reflects the loss of the pies themselves.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?”
“When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?”
“When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.”
“When was the last time you told a co-worker of family member or neighbor you loved them? Try it.”
“When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.”
“When was the last time you went 30 days without gambling? I'm guessing years, right? A thirty-day inpatient program at a facility dedicated to gambling addiction is worth a try simply for that experience alone. Thirty full days without gambling (and thirty days of not drinking, or drug use) will allow your brain to return to the normal state that nature intended. You will get to know "clear thinking" for the first time in years.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.”
“When was the moment, I don’t know when, with all my remembrances I can’t find it; maybe it was during our dance, or maybe it was some morning as a breeze of air shook the sun’s light; maybe it was one of those nights of hugging when we reached our ripeness and the earth turned past it; maybe we were asleep. Really how life gets on is a secret, you only know your memory, and it makes its own time. The real time leads you along and you never know when it happens, the best that can be is come and gone.”
“When was you the happiest, Call?” Augustus asked.
“Happiest about what?” Call asked.
“Just about being a live human being, free on the earth,” Augustus said.
“Well, it’s hard to single out any one particular time,” Call said.
“It ain’t for me,” Augustus said. “I was happiest right back there by that little creek. I fell short of the mark and lost the woman, but the times were sweet.”
It seemed an odd choice to Call. After all, Gus had been married twice.
“What about your wives?” he asked.
“Well, it’s peculiar,” Augustus said. “I never was drawn to fat women, and yet I married two of them. People do odd things, all except you. I don’t think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don’t
suit you, so you managed to avoid it.”
“That’s silly,” Call said.
“It ain’t, either,” Augustus said. “I don’t guess I’ve watched you punish yourself for thirty years to be totally wrong about you. I just don’t know what you done to deserve the punishment.”
“You’ve got a strange way of thinking,” Call said.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.”
“When watching a high mountain, wise man knows that no mountain is higher or colder or more unpredictable or foggier or more magnificent or more dangerous than the human mind!”
“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.”
“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.”
“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.”
Source: Selected poems
“When water is being filled in a pot, the sound we hear is a function of the pot, not of the water. Same water makes different sounds in different pots. Each of us, described in Sanskrit as Ghata, meaning pot, responds in a unique way to the stimuli from the surrounding environment. Do not be surprised when the response of another appears entirely different from yours. The pot has created the illusion of a wall, of mine and other. Once you become aware of that illusion, otherness melts and the universe becomes a unified verse again, with apparently diverse responses becoming part of the same symphony.”
“When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or by several conflicting ones, the disturbance is the same.”
Source: On the Abolition of All Political Parties
“When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.”
“When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.”
“When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.”
“When waves around you surge and you are battered by rough seas, stay the course and dread not the storm's deception.”
“When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.”
“When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.”
“When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.”
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”
“When we [Migos] talk about whatever we're talking about, and you visualise it, that's what we really went through.”
“When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.”
“When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.”
“When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
“When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.”
“When we accept and believe the truth of the names our Heavenly Father calls us, we begin to experience freedom from the stigma of names others have called us, and names we have called ourselves.”
Source: Who Are You?: 31 Names from the Holy Scriptures to remind you that you are God's prized creation
“When we accept and embrace our emotions as the way they are rather than what we wish them to be and discover that in the deepest darkest moments, we are okay - this is the true emotional healing. Emotional healing is when you face your worst fears only to realize you are okay. You have no control over what life throws at you, but you have control of how to relate to whatever comes your way.”
“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.”
Source: The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism