When a person expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd... we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true [to them]. This exercise of imagination enlarges the scope of our thinking and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.
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Quote:- When a scary thought first works its way into your brain, you have a choice. You can camp out on that thought in your mind, like my Two-Mama says not to do. Or you can deal with it right away to keep it from becoming bigger and scarier than it already is.
Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
Author:- Sadie Robertson
Category:- hope
Quote:- When a ship gets wrecked, I have a sense it is going to be able to make it to the shore.
Author:- Leo Patrick Lipana
Category:- Life
Quote:- When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness to be anchored in a bay of good luck. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )
Author:- Erik Pevernagie
Category:- hope
Quote:- When a subject declares intellectual philosophy useless, you can be sure it won’t be making any intellectual defense of its position.
Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War
Author:- David Sinclair
Category:- science
Quote:- When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
Author:- Roman Payne
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- When a wife tells her husband, he sucks in bed, it’s undeniable he will obtain a second opinion.
Author:- RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1981
Category:- Love
Quote:- When a woman wants your attention, she uses her smile. When she wants your wallet, she uses her charm. When she wants your heart, she uses her touch. When she wants your soul, she uses her kiss.
Author:- Matshona Dhliwayo
Category:- Love
Quote:- When a woman who has been wounded decides to do something, there is no halt. The thorns fail to prick, the darkness refuses to bother and stones along the path keep breaking. A lighted path emerges automatically.
Stella - An extraordinary tale of an ordinary girl
Author:- Neelam Saxena Chandra
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When a woman's face is wrinkledAnd her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday!Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay;Remember, Lasses, remember.And while the sun shines make hay:You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family
Author:- Ann Rinaldi
Category:- poetry
Quote:- When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
Author:- Epictetus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.
Author:- Sanober Khan
Category:- poetry,motivational
Quote:- When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Author:- Lou Holtz
Category:- motivational,inspiration
Quote:- When all makes sense, and you understand how things work you become unstoppable.
Author:- Cristina Imre
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.
Author:- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.
Author:- Matshona Dhliwayo
Category:- Life
Quote:- When all things return to the One, even gold loses its value. But when the One returns to all things, even the pebbles sparkle.
The Golden Age of Zen
Author:- John Wu
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
The Dream of Scipio
Author:- Iain Pears
Category:- knowledge