W Quotes
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“Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.”
“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
“Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.”
“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.”
Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel
“Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.”
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
“Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.”
“Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.”
“Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results
“Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.”
“Whenever a new doll arrived from Dolls of All Nations, she'd hit the porch with wires around her wrists, ankles, and neck. I must have freed more than twenty, their eyes opening slowly once they got back on their feet.”
Source: Arena Glow
“Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.”
“Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant”
“Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.”
“whenever a new thing is required for the world, then it is created spontaneously. This means a new thing is created within the body of a human body and the world gets the same thing.
What is that new thing? It is the eternal question - who am I and what is the relation between the human race and me.”
“Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.”
“Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.”
“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”
“Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.”
“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
Source: Republic
“Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Whenever a politician secretly dreams of autocracy, you'll hear them shout a lot about preserving the culture and tradition.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.”
“Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.”
“Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.”
“Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom.”
“Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..”
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.”
“Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.”
Source: When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls
“Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying.”
“Whenever a soldier needed an escape, the antidote to anxiety, relief from boredom, a bit of laughter, inspiration, or hope, he cracked open a book and drank in the words that would transport him elsewhere.”
“Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.”
“Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..”
“Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What was missing was not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It was akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she couldn't bake a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She had butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.”
“Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.”
Source: Aims of Education
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
“Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"”
“Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.”
“Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“Whenever a tradition becomes venerable with the passage of time, the ancient masters and sages are elevated to pedestals of sanctity and wisdom which lift them far above the human level. The way of liberation becomes confused with a popular cult; the ancient teachers become gods and supermen, and thus the ideal of liberation or Buddha-hood becomes ever more remote. No one believes that it can be reached except by the most gifted and heroic prodigies. Consequently the medicine of the discipline becomes a diet, the cure an addiction, and the raft a houseboat. In this manner, a way of liberation turns into just another social institution and dies of respectability.”
Source: psychotherapy east and west
“Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.”
“Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.”
Source: Don't Get Me Started
“Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.”
Source: Social Blunders: A Novel
“Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.”