W Quotes
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“Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.”
Source: The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon
“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”
“Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?”
“Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.”
“Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.”
“Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.”
“Whichever decision that you take, it would have been set that way in any case. We could never run from our destiny.”
“Whichever direction our [desires] pushes us, we must become more [concious] about continuously pulling in the [opposite] direction.
Back to Center.”
“Whichever direction our [desires] pushes us, we must become more [concious] about continuously pulling in the [opposite] direction.
Back to the center.”
“Whichever form of government that democracy will create in the future, the great American experiment will go down in history as the freest and the bravest in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.”
“Whichever part of this earth I lay my eyes on, becomes my neighborhood. This whole world is my home and every inch of it is under my protection.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!”
“Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to a point in the future time is a great victory!”
“Whichever side you align yourself with is the side that will own you. Every human being is either possessed by the forces of darkness (which appear as both good and evil in this world) or by the Lord Jesus.”
Source: Conversations With Nicole
“Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.”
“Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“Whichever way we may look, it is in the mind where we must find peace in order for the soul or conscience to unite with all existence and express pure Love.”
Source: Unveiling our True Reality: with the Wisdom of the Awakened Masters
“Whichever way works for you, that's the right way and that's all that counts”
Source: Life Lessons from Bob Ross
“Whichever you do, you will repent it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)
“Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.”
“While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.”
“While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.”
Source: Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection
“While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.”
Source: Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
“While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.”
“While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.”
“While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.”
“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”
“While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.”
“While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won].”
“While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.”
“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.”
“While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it or to look in the wrong places for it. The vast majority of Father's children have not only forgotten their Father in Heaven and the purpose of mortal life, but they rarely even think of Him nor ponder for what purpose they are here in mortality. They have been led to be absorbed by mundane things that distract them from the essential ones. Don't you make that mistake.”
“While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.”
“While a capitalist who invests in anything that produces income is entitled to a return on investment, women who produced the entire work force are entitled to none.”
Source: Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
“While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.”
“While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies.
Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwrecked castaways, intersecting other island dwellers, and when we meet them, we hold ourselves out in offering and grant them a chance to accept or reject us. With our souls held together with twine and tape and glue, we bounce from rejection to rejection until we find the one who accepts us.
This is the thirst of the human soul, and only one thing satisfies it: to be accepted in the knowing.”
Source: The Letter Keeper
“While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwrecked castaways, intersecting other island dwellers, and when we meet them, we hold ourselves out in offering and grant them a chance to accept or reject us. With our souls held together with twine and tape and glue, we bounce from rejection to rejection until we find the one who accepts us.
This is the thirst of the human soul, and only one thing satisfies it: to be accepted in the knowing.
[Murphy Shepherd]”
Source: The Letter Keeper
“While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.”
“While a dog was going round a well and was about to die of thirst, an Israeli prostitute saw it and took off her shoe and watered it. So GOD forgave her because of that good deed”
“While a "don't-know mind" is alive and full of possibilities, a mind that claims to know is a closed and stagnant one.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.”
Source: Lolita
“While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.”
“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”
“While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.”
Source: The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership
“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”