A Quotes
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“And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.”
“And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.”
“And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.”
“And what we have growing here is hope. Hope that after these many years of the Trials of the Innermost, we will have a new song to sing.”
Source: Trials of the Innermost
“And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.”
“And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not so to be understood, as if, should God will something inconsistent, it would be right because He willed it. For it does not follow that if God would lie it would be right to lie, but rather that he were not God.”
Source: Cur Deus Homo to Which is Added a Selection From His Letters
“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”
Source: All the King's Men
“And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.”
“And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.”
“And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.”
“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"
"They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.”
“And what will bow your shoulders down
will be the vicious and worthless company
with whom you will fall into this abyss.”
Source: Paradise
“And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.”
Source: The Eagle
“And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.”
“And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.”
“And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.”
“And what would happen now? What if her dragonet was broken? After all the lying and worrying, she wasn’t sure she could survive if there was something wrong.
I will love her anyway, she thought fiercely, hoping that was true.”
Source: Moon Rising
“And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?”
“And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”
Source: Incarceron
“And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.”
Source: It
“And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?”
Source: The Hobbit
“And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.”
“And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.”
“And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”
Source: Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe
“And what's above is in the past
As sure as all the angels are.”
Source: Selected poems
“And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.”
“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”
“And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?”
“And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?”
“And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.”
“And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”
Source: The Lavender Garden: A Novel
“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?”
Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings
“And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
Source: The Portable Plato
“And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.”
Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”
“And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?”
“And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?”
“And whatever anyone thinks or says, England didn't win this war. And Germany wouldn't have won it, either."
"What do you mean?"
"War wins." He says. "And it keeps winning, over and over again.”
Source: Wake
“And, whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword.”
Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe