W Quotes
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“While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”
“While browsing through the Seattle Art Museum in 1945, a scholar discovered a 5-inch jade seal, missing from China since the Boxer Rebellion, as a priceless Imperial seal. “My spectacles fell off my nose and I started to yell,” said Hugh Alexander Matier, 62-year-old scholar and traveler.”
Source: Two Years in the Forbidden City
“While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve. What it does take, however, is effort. What it does take is imagination. What it does take is a commitment to our children's futures.”
“While burnout obviously has something to do with stress, overdoing things, not being centred, and not listening to yourself or your body, one of the deepest contributors to burnout, I believe, is the deep disappointment of not living up to your true calling, which is to help.”
Source: Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
“While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.”
Source: Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
“While calling 911 for a police supervisor is no guarantee that it will deescalate a toxic police officer, it does make it much harder for the abuser to continue to elevate the situation.”
“While campaigning in 1900, it is said that the young Churchill was doing a spot of canvassing when one of those he approached exclaimed: 'Vote for you? Why, I'd rather vote for the Devil!'
'I understand,' Churchill answered. 'But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?”
“While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign`s own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.”
“While capital infusion provides a crucial lifeline, startups in the crypto industry must adapt swiftly, innovate constantly, and establish solid partnerships to overcome the challenges that arise after fundraising.”
“While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll ever get,I guess.I closed my eyes,lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely ,utterly trusted.”
“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
“While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.”
Source: Culturally Responsive Teaching : Theory, Research, and Practice
“While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.”
“While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.”
“While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.”
“While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.”
“While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.”
“While chasing the moon that was about to set, she missed the sunrise.”
“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”
Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes
“While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”
“While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“While Christians divide sex into a linear good/bad, it makes more sense to divide it into realistic and non realistic, and people who are either obsessed with avoiding sex, or with cheapening it, are both insane.”
Source: Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
“While churches are looking for decisions, Jesus is looking for disciples.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.”
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”
Source: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs.”
“While 'clear' evidence points to the suspect from the onset (before he is contacted), 'cloaked' evidence points to the suspect only in hindsight (after he is identified)...The cloaked prophecies are limited in their ability to *point* us to the Messiah. They may, however, help or *confirm* his identity once we have him in view.”
Source: Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
“While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.”
Source: The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
“While climate change threatens our environment on the one hand, and fossil fuel depletion threatens our economic system on the other, solar energy holds out the promise of protecting both of them.”
Source: Forging Ahead: Technology Development & Emerging Economies
“While climbing, Kevin and I were like brothers. We laughed, encouraged each other, pushed each other.”
Source: The Push, Running Up That Hill, Alone on the Wall, The Impossible Climb 4 Books Collection Set
“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.”
Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur
“While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains a huge stable of paid pundits. [Donna] Brazile was on the air and the payroll at CNN while vice chairwoman of the party. She took an absence when she became chief.”
“While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach’s enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. “What was that for?” the coach demanded.”
“While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.”
Source: The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment
“While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.”
“While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed.”
Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“While conflict is inevitable in friendship, friends also have the ability to tolerate each other’s needs and to resolve differences. As Frans de Waal writes, “Fires start, but fires go out…We know a great deal about the causes of hostile behavior in both animals and humans…Yet we know little of the way conflicts are avoided - or how, when they do occur, relationships are afterward repaired and normalized. In his wonderful book Peacemaking Among Primates, Frans de Waal makes the case that for all primates, humans included, “making peace is as natural as making war.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.”
“While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.”
“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
“While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.”
“While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.”
“While consistent nurturing of our goals and dreams is of immense importance, we must not become so lost in our path of progress that we lose sense of the present.”
“While conspiracies have been well-documented as taking place throughout history, in every epoch and location, immediately when you begin to speak about the conspiracies that are happening now, you are labelled a 'lunatic.' This is because there exist very powerful, super-wealthy families with strong connections to the Demiurge who want to hide the fact that he is covertly taking control of Planet Earth.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“While contemplating an affair with a married man, women must ascertain his treatment of his own wife”
“While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.”
Source: Les Misérables
“While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.”
Source: The Word of God and the Mind of Man