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“When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.”
“When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.”
“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“When writing on the subject of civilization, one must understand that the ability to read or write a European language does not create a superior civilization. Nor does the ability to point exploding sticks that cause instantaneous death or injury, or to launch missiles that could blow the world apart, provide a moral basis to declare one’s culture more civilized than another. The question to ask when judging the values and merits of a civilization must always be: “How does the civilization respond to the human needs of its population?” By this standard, because they created social and political systems that ensured personal liberty, justice and social responsibility, most Amerindian civilizations must be given very high marks.
When making an unbiased assessment, and comparing the values of early American civilizations with those of European civilizations, one cannot but find that the suppression and wanton destruction of American civilizations by European civilizations was in many ways a case of inferior civilizations overcoming superior ones. This is especially true in the area of respect for human rights. Although they were not as technologically advanced as the Europeans were by 1492, many Amerindian Nations possessed democratic political practices that were light years ahead.”
Source: We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History ? Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations
“When writing personal letters I have sometimes gone too far. Maybe belief and trust in another’s love is an obsessional desire to control a wayward eyewitness. I could go on and on about the origins of transference via H. D. and The Sword Went Out to Sea but a foreword is a like a fish tank so there isn’t room here for leaping dolphins, solo séances, hallucinatory visions, dead pilots, the atomic bomb, nervous breakdowns, the Küsnacht clinic March–November 1946.
Sigh sough rough wind world war.”
Source: Debths
“When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.”
Source: This Business of Living
“When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.”
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can they cause a similar reaction in the reader.
Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.
With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.
What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator.”
“When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.”
“When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.”
“When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.”
“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
“When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening”
“When wrong things were happening to me constantly; something right was also happening silently. I was slowly becoming who I am today.”
“When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“When Wu-Wear started making shoes and sneakers and pants, it was shoddy material.”
“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”
“When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.”
“When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.”
“When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.”
“When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.”
“When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.”
“When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)
“When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.”
“When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.”
“When yeu win, your success story can be whatever the fuck yeu want.”
“When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.”
“When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.”
“When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth .”
Source: The diary of a magus
“When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.”
“When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'”
“When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.”
“When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.”
“When you ... see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. ... You will be so glad and joyful. ... When you are qualified and purified, ... you can endure the glory of eternity.”
“when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN.”
“When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.”
“When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'”
“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”
“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”
Source: Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
“When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.”
“When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.”
“When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.”
“When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic”
“When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.”
“When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.”
“When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.”
Source: Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising
“When you accept a lord's meat and mead, all you do reflects on him. Always do more than he expects of you, never less. Never flinch at any task or hardship. And above all, never shame the lord you serve.”
Source: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms