W Quotes
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“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
“Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.”
Source: Society Of The Spectacle
“Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.”
“Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.”
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“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
“Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”
“Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east”
“Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten; that place is not ours.”
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”
Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
“Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying
“Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.”
“Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“Where the spirit of godliness is, where there are godly principles in action, where there is justice and peace, there will surely be prosperity.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of transformation.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”
“Where the stars are scattered thinly,' quoted Barr, 'And the cold of space seeps in.”
Source: Foundation and Empire
“Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”
Source: The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism
“Where the state has undertaken to impose a prior authorisation procedure upon a particular activity, a failure so to act which resulted in pollution violating international law would occasion the responsibility of the state.”
Source: International Law
“Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.”
“Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.”
“Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.”
Source: Last Tales
“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
Source: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions
“Where the strong man stumbles, the weak man falls.”
“Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Where the sun goes to rest. The moon begins its quest. You will find me at my best - Shinning A Light”
Source: Coming Home
“Where the sun sets, love rises!”
“Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.”
“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?”
“Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.”
Source: Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy
“Where the terror is, is where you must go.”
“Where the terror is, you must go.”
“Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.”
“Where the truth remains hidden from the outside, the inside imprisons the hidden.”
Source: Travel Glasses
“Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.”
“Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.”
“Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.”
Source: Memoir of the author, and expositions of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue
“Where the utopian vision goes wrong is when it is held by ruling elites with no commitment to democracy or civil rights and who are therefore likely to use unbridled state power for its achievement. Where it goes brutally wrong is when the society subjected to such utopian experiments lacks the capacity to mount a determined resistance.”
Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?”
“Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.”
“Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.”
Source: Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .”
Source: The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats
“Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.”
“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.”
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
Source: The Prince
“Where the women go, the culture goes.”