W Quotes
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“What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.”
“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”
“What a strange power there is in clothing.”
Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.”
Source: Baghdad Sketches
“What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.”
Source: Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart
“What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more often than something that is still wrestling with this idea of making a profit.”
“What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.”
“What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”
Source: An Honorable profession
“What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a concentration of blooming scent.
The world is somnolent and cool, in a temporary reprieve from the normal heat and radiance.
But the sensation of illusion is strong. Because the sun can break through the clouds at any moment . . .
What a soft thoughtful time.
In this illusory gloom, like a night-blooming flower, let your imagination bloom in a riot of color.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the definition of the eternal. The wonderment of a living creature, with a finite life, creating the eternal. Through that fleeting, transient moment of music, one was in touch with eternity.”
Source: Honeybees and Distant Thunder
“What a strange thing that grief can become need in moments, in breaths, in the strength of his hands. Maybe it’s shelter. Maybe distraction. Or something else entirely. But there is old pain in me and we kiss as though we have kissed a thousand times before, as though in other lives we kissed every day, we kiss as though we have been waiting years to do so.”
Source: Wild Dark Shore
“What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and desire.”
Source: Dark Matter
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
“What a strange time we lived in where tragedy and uncertainty swept up common people like me and the most uncommon person in the world in the same moment.
Tragedy and uncertainty are both things of which no one is immune. Not even dragons.”
Source: Dusk Covenant
“What a strange turn of events.”
“What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.”
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”
“What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.”
Source: A Conspiracy of Kings
“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”
“What a strange world this was, that I could come here to lose everything about myself, and instead lose everything but me. It was possible that I’d thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God’s fence. It would be, after all, a divinely ironic punishment to watch me learn to care and then destroy the things I cared about.”
Source: Forever
“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”
“What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts”
“What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.”
“What a strong wave does to a sand castle is not called a revolution, because a revolution comes, destroys, but rebuilds! If something new and much better is not built, there is no revolution, only destruction!”
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”
“What a stupid thing to say!’ remarked Sophy. ‘Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner. Who is she?’ ‘Miss Wraxton: Charles is betrothed to her, and Mama sent to warn me a few minutes ago that she is dining here tonight. We had all of us forgotten it in the bustle of your arrival.”
Source: The Grand Sophy
“What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!”
Source: The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses
“What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.”
Source: The Evolution Theory
“What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.”
“What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).”
“What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the means for going home, you already have what you need to be happy and safe. You have never really left Home. However, if you don't believe you already have what you need to be happy and safe, it is as if it isn't true: If we don't know the ruby slippers will take us home, it's like not having them. The ego keeps us from seeing the truth about those ruby slippers- it keeps us from seeing the truth about life. Home is right here, right now, but we may not realize it and there for not experience Home, or Essence as much as we might.”
Source: What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
“What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.”
Source: Hemlock
“What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.”
Source: Other Women
“What a surprising turn of events. He'd only come out here to question the intruder he'd spotted while watching from his stone repose. Instead, he'd found a gargoyle who needed a place to stay. Not what he'd expected.”
Source: Knights of Stone: Bryce
“What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“What a tangle love is.”
Source: Everlasting
“What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.”
“What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."”
“What a temptation, at certain moments, to turn one's back on this bleak, fleshless world! But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves...Admission of ignorance, rejection of fanaticism, the limits of the world and of man, the beloved face, and finally beauty...It lies in the struggle between creation and inquisition.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What a temptation to identify oneself with those stones, to melt into that burning and impassive universe that defies history and its ferments! That is doubtless futile. But there is in every man a profound instinct which is neither that of destruction nor that of creation. It is merely a matter of resembling nothing.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.”
Source: Life of Pi
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
“What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind.”