W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.”
Source: Iron Mixed with Sand Salt without Memory
“What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her extensive interviews. Theres a chorus of quotes from faculty, students, and graduates in The Low-Residency MFA Handbook. Anyone making the decision to apply for an MFA should consult this wise guide. Mays clarity and authority make it a gold standard.”
“What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.”
“What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!”
Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
“What an irony in that the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims remain doctrinally sundered by their self-same Semitic God and the diverse pantheon of Hindu deities render their respective devotees into the social fold of sanatana dharma!”
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the dogmas of the Dark Ages, perpetrated as religious tenets.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.”
Source: The Cloister
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.”
Source: For Two Thousand Years
“What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.”
“What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.”
Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!”
“What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.”
“What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess?”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.”
“What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.”
“What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.”
“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
Source: Electra
“What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
“What an unbelievably refined flavor! And so lusciously gooey you could just faint! The salty, sticky turtle broth seeps through the mouth... melding beautifully with the salty savoriness of the butter and cheese! Together, they lap at your tongue in silky, decadent harmony!
"How on earth does this work? What makes the flavor of the turtle fit so well with the cheese?
Hm? What's this where the two layers meet?"
"You have a keen eye, sir. That's a mix of chopped nuts and seeds- walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds...
...and...
...."
"Kaki no Tane Snack Crackers?!"
Those crackers! Soma used those the very first time Takumi challenged him!
After lightly toasting them to bring out their aroma, I mixed them into the layer between the sides of my Sformato. Of course, this was after I used my Mezzaluna...
... to chop them all into the perfect size of about 0.1 mm each!
"Heyo, Human Food Processor!"
"I see! The toasted Kaki no Tane Crackers bring just enough aromatic astringency to erase the smell of the fish and dairy...
... functioning as a sort of bridge to tie the two distinct flavors together!
Not only that, their crunchiness adds a fun, contrasting texture while not being filling at all!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 34 [Shokugeki no Souma 34]
“What an understatement to call aura reading fun! As if it weren’t fascinating enough to plunge into the auric effects of the Beatles, Chanel No. 5, and your favorite flavor of ice cream, imagine what happens when you can read auras of your family and friends. Auras reveal juicy stuff about what is really going on with people in areas like love and communication.”
Source: Aura Reading Through All Your Senses: Celestial Perception Made Practical
“What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.”
Source: Day watch
“What an unfortunate time for the wanderlust to strike!”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“What an unpredictable and alienlike creature he is. That is indeed my friend, my cat.”
“What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.”
“What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?”
Source: The Luminaries
“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.”
“What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.”
“What and how is your spirit man contributing to the condition of your soul?”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
Source: Invisible Man
“What and where you are today, is the result of choices you have made in the past.”
Source: Thoughts: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
“What and who you are on the inside seeks congruency with what and who you are on the outside. Your inside is producing your outside reality.”
“What angels are to the sad, nurses are to the sick.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“What angels invented these splendid ornaments, these rich conveniences, this ocean of air above, this ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between? this zodiac of lights, this tent of dropping clouds, this striped coat of climates, this fourfold year? Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed”
Source: Nature
“What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul.”
Source: Flash Fire
“What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.”
“What angry star then governs me
That I must feel a double smart,
Prisoner to fate as well as thee;
Kept from thy face, link’d to thy heart?
Because my love all love excels,
Must my grief have no parallels?”
“What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.”
“What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?”
“What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.”
“What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.”
“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.”
“What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?”
“What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.”
“What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.”
“What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, of fullness. This fullness is revealed as being bliss and peace. You now know that you are really seeking nothing else but fullness and absolute peace.”
Source: Be Who You Are
“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”
“What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”
Source: All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators