W Quotes
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“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.”
“Written with love, inspired by a very special little bun.”
Source: Peanut the "Burtle" Bunny : "Written with love, inspired by a very special little bun."
“Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.”
“Written words are divine footprints on earth.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Written words can also sing.”
Source: Dreams in a Time of War
“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Written words...seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you just the same thing forever. And once a thing is put in writing, the composition, whatever it may be, drifts all over the place, getting into the hands not only of those who understand it, but equally of those who have no business with it; it doesn't know how to address the right people, and not address the wrong.
[Socrates]”
Source: Phaedrus
“Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature”
“Writter of thriller, Horror, Suspense stories. First written story book ‘The Master Of Darkest World'. Need Everyone's support go and read.”
“Wrong actions can be corrected, not wrong thinking.”
“Wrong advice exists in anyone that's envious, jealous, arrogant, ignorant and who wants to keep favor with you. Neutral,God-fearing and loving advisors are very rare. Tread carefully with men.”
“Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child.”
Source: LSD: My Problem Child
“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our surroundings, our experiences, ourselves, seeing similarities, parallels, connections. We cannot help it. Even as the mind fails, it goes on trying to make sense of what is happening to it.”
Source: Passage
“Wrong assumptions occur from limited knowledge. A person should have a complete view before shaping an opinion about someone or something.”
“Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.”
“Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.”
Source: The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction
“Wrong body. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, 1956."
I did not like being compared to a black-and-white horror film, but I'd just been told not to argue with the harpy.”
Source: The Tyrant’s Tomb
“Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.”
“Wrong choices and unwise decisions result in failure and regret.”
“Wrong deeds and actions spoil the friendly atmosphere.”
“Wrong determination leads you towards destruction and unwanted destination.”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“Wrong doing leads to wrath.”
“Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”
“Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Wrong eating is the disease.
Right eating is the medicine.”
“Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another."
pg 69 Tomas to Vlad”
Source: Twelfth Grade Kills
“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.”
Source: A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan
“Wrong idea done in the wrong time creates chaos. Wrong idea done in the right time is a mistake. Right idea done in the wrong time creates resistance. Right idea done in the right time creates inevitable success.”
Source: Beyond The Dark Night Of The Soul
“Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.”
Source: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
“Wrong is better than vague.”
Source: The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
“Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Wrong is for other people.”
“Wrong is now right in the eyes of many people because they seek to please the flesh, and they do not seek to please the Living and Holy God. One cannot please God and man at the same time, for God is a Holy and where He dwells Sin cannot enter, and that is why we need the blood of Jesus to cleanse us from our sins so that we may come before the Holy God.”
“Wrong is wrong.”
“Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it and right is right even if no one is doing it.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it.”
“Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”
Source: Three Plays: Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika
“Wrong is wrong. There's no degree of less or more to it.”
“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.”
Source: Malcolm X on Afro-American History
“Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.”
“Wrong leads to weakness.”
“Wrong leads to wrath.”
“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Source: Essays on Music
“Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.”
“Wrong motives are always short-sighted, narrow- scoped and selfish in nature, and can not withstand the test of time”