W Quotes
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“Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.”
“Where my previous motivation had been a self-serving ambition, my new service mindset was dedicated to serving a vision greater than myself.
Within a year, I quadrupled my income, and then I doubled it every year thereafter. This service mindset quickly taught me that by helping others achieve their goals, I could more easily achieve my own.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“Where my sis was this puzzle piece that fit anywhere at the first try, I had always seemed to struggle with finding my place. Somehow, I always managed to be missing a little corner or have an extra edge that pushed me to keep trying somewhere I might fit better.”
Source: The Spanish Love Deception
“Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night she kept her own secret; never whispering a word to Memory, and baffling imagination by an indissoluble silence. She may have gone upward, and come in sight of her eternal home, hoping for leave to rest now, and deeming that her painful union with matter was at last dissolved. While she so deemed, an angel may have warned her away from heaven's threshold, and, guiding her weeping down, have bound her, once more, all shuddering and unwilling, to that poor frame, cold and wasted, of whose companionship she was grown more than weary.
I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were hard to re-unite: they greeted each other, not in an embrace, but a racking sort of struggle.”
“Where mystery begins religion ends.”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings
“Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.”
“Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.”
“Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.”
Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.”
“Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.”
Source: Country Sentiment
“Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
“Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.”
“Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.”
Source: Killosophy
“Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Where new technologies suddenly make a behavior easier, new possibilities are born”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.”
“Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.”
Source: Selections from Swami Vivekananda
“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”
Source: Across the frontiers
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
“Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866
“Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.”
“Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets
“Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.”
“Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.”
Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)
“Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.”
“Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“Where nothing is given reciprocity has no essence.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”
“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)”
“Where oil is first found is in the minds of men”
“Where on earth did it come from? You can ask that question of any poem, and one inevitable answer is a simple one: work. No made thing springs up unbidden, even those that seem to. The poem that announced itself to the intoxicated Coleridge, before a knock at the door banished most of it from his memory, or the composition that sprung full blown into the head of Mozart, as he stepped down from a carriage after a satisfying dinner, seemed to pour from the artist's hand, so long schooled those hands had become. But years of labor inform those spontaneous productions. Though a poem over which one struggles may seem labored, it often prepares the way for new writing in which what's been learned emerges with an effortless grace.”
Source: What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
“Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”
Source: The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian
“Where once I called on her
The garden fence is now in ruins”
“Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt not,” now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, “You will.”
“Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.”
“Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith
“Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.”
“Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.”
“Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.”
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”
“Where once witchcraft accusations were the norm, bullying has taken its place. And just as during the Trials, it's not always the usual suspects who get bullied; it can happen to anyone for any reason. But the only way it happens is if the community supports it. Group agreement and group silence are equally as deadly. The moment someone speaks up, it's possible to stop that cycle. It's not the easiest thing to do, but greatness is never without risk. And there is nothing greater in the whole world than kindness - kindness to someone being bullied, kindness to a stranger, kindness to an inured animal. Every act counts.”
Source: How to Hang a Witch
“Where one despises, one cannot wage war.”
Source: Ecce Homo
“Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.”
“Where one door shuts another opens.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Where one foot has tread, others will follow. It is foolishness to think it can be stopped. The whole world will be laid bare eventually, all its secrets dragged out of their hiding places and set down on your maps.”
Source: The Smoke Hunter
“Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.”