#rope

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#english language #imagination #itself #language #nobody

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#corset #properly #you

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#knowledge #our #our time #power #proper

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#after #any #between #building #date

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#certain #could #days #god #himself

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#could #done #education #every #every man

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#entire #europe #fourth #half #inhabitants

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#enemy #europeans #fight #homeland #homes

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#block #creating #get #going #helped