W Quotes
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“What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.”
“What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.”
Source: SOUL ON ICE
“What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.”
“What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.”
“What America explores today, the world explores a decade later.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“What America first means is we put the national interests of the United States and the well-being of our own country and our own people first. Our foreign policy, first and foremost, should be focused on the defense of American freedom, security and rights.”
“What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.”
Source: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' collection)
“What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
“What America needs is a political revolution.”
“What America needs is character - a character, bright enough to shine over a whole community - a character burning with love, passion and purity - a character free from all sorts of sectarianism, be it religious, political or atheistic.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.”
“What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost.”
“What America needs now is a drink.”
“What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.”
“What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be more capable of making wise decisions concerning our lives and the lives of our loved ones? These are our friends and our family members suffering from so many forms of cancer, several diseases of the heart, emphysema, poor circulation, blindness, strokes, various skin disorders, bad breath, asthma, poverty, clogged arteries, disfigurement, rotting teeth and gums, birth defects, infertility, sexual dysfunction, high blood pressure, aneurysms, complications during pregnancies, and all too often a slow and painful death. These suffering people are also many of us.”
Source: Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You
“What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.”
“What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.”
“What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.”
“What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.”
“What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.”
“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“What amounted to civil war began. Greek 'bands' adopted the methods of the Bulgarian 'bands'. Greek-speaking villages which had adopted the Bulgarian Church were obliged to renounce their religion and become Greeks proper, or have their houses burnt, or worse. The villagers, who would like to be left in peace, yielded, and instead of Bulgarians became Greeks. When the Greek 'band' withdrew, down came the Bulgarian 'band' to reconvert the village and make the inhabitants Bulgarian again. Thereupon the Greek 'band' cut a few throats and fired a few houses just to remind the peasants they must be Greeks or be killed... The bishops and priests of the Greek Church in particular not only countenanced but urged crime as a means of compelling Bulgarian Macedonians to proclaim themselves Greeks.”
Source: Pictures from the Balkans
“What amounts to a plague of mental illness is now addressed as ‘normal’ rather than as an indication that there is something terrifyingly wrong with our culture. The fact that we no longer understand mental illness as a message – that is, as a nondeclarative communication of an imbalance that requires rectification – not only demonstrates the degree of our emotional illiteracy, but our failure to understand the principle of balance as the axis of all existence.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”
“What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!”
“What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.”
Source: The spectator
“What an absurd thing it was to expect happiness in a world so full of misery. He had cut down his own needs to a minimum, photographs were put away in drawers, the dead were put out of mind: a razor strop, a pair of rusty handcuffs for decoration: but one still has one's eyes, he thought, one's ears. Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil or else an absolute ignorance.
Outside the rest-house he stopped again. The lights inside would have given an extraordinary impression of peace if one hadn't known, just as the stars on this clear night gave also an impression of remoteness, security, freedom. If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? if one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
Source: The Heart of The Matter
“What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.”
“What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!”
“What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.”
Source: Swann's Way
“What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.”
“What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.”
Source: Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54
“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.”
“What an age finds evil is commonly an anachronistic echo of what previously was found to be good - the atavism of an older ideal.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“What an agony Jesus Christ, The Saviour, endured to redeem mankind from sin?”
“What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf) Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron) I thought that was politics. (Wulf) It’s both. (Acheron)”
“What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour”
“What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.”
“What an amazing day," Bree said, stretching in her seat. "Thanks to me and my weather charm." I said lightly. Robbie and Hunter both looked at me in alarm. "You didn't," Said Robbie. "You didn't," Said Hunter. I was enjoying this. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't." Hunter looked upset. "You can't be serious!" Cahn't, I thought. Cahn too.”
“What an amazing gift to help people, not just yourself.”
“What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.”
Source: If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
“What an amazing voice! Sally Barris has an excruciatingly beautiful voice.”
“What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.”
“What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.”
“What an annoying mad thing love is!”
“What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.”
“What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).”
“What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.”
Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology
“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.”