W Quotes
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“What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.”
“What are the thoughts that depletes your energy? Replace them with positive ones that infuses energy in you.”
Source: Fast Track Your Fresh Start: A 21-Day Prayer Journey
“What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.”
“What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.”
“What are the traits of an awakened person? First, his comings and goings are only as per his wish. Second, no reason of the outside world can influence him and third, whatever he is once determined to do, he breathes only when it is brought to fruition.”
“What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion. “If I wanted you to know, I’d have spoken louder,” she said calmly. He turned away muttering what she was sure were more blasphemies about annoying females. “You must make the priest weary with the length of your confessions,” she said. He raised one eyebrow. “Who says I confess anything?”
Source: In Bed with a Highlander
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?”
“What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?”
Source: Art and Lies
“What are the ways by which we can reorient architecture to consider materials not as consumables, but as outputs of valuable and increasingly scarce ecological niches.”
Source: Neri Oxman: Material Ecology
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“What are their names? Psycho and Killer?" He shook his head. "Cupcake and Twinkie." My mouth dropped open. "You're kidding." A grin flitted across his lips. "Afraid not." If naming them after dessert snacks had been Miss Marva's attempt to make them seem cute, it wasn't working.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“What are their rights?" he asked at last. He could scarcely hear himself speak. But whoever stood beside him in the dark seemed to have no difficulty.
"To choose their own paths," it replied. "To live their lives without obligation. To be gods of their own worlds."
Once more Eanrin considered. Then he asked, "Why are their voices so small?"
"Because I have given them what they demanded. I have allotted them worlds in which they may reign divine. And those worlds are small."
"How small?"
"Very small.”
Source: Starflower
“What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”
“What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.”
“What are these guys?" He whispered "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?" "Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada." "Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before.”
“What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.”
“What are these? They look like scars." Meryn glanced down and realized he was talking about her stretch marks. Had he never seen stretch marks before?”
“Those are called stretch marks."
"Stretch marks? How did you get them?"
"Human females get them when we grow. If we grow too fast our skin rips apart and heals. It's a very painful process." Meryn lied through her teeth. There was no way she was going to discuss stretch marks after the most mind blowing sex of her life. Nope. Wasn't going to happen. Aiden's expression became reverent.
"Human females are amazing creatures, you endure so much pain yet are so fragile." He kissed each shiny line.
I'm going to hell.”
Source: My Commander
“What are these things that draw toward us,
these visitors that hide among us”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago.”
Source: The Search for WondLa
“What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?”
Source: Main Street
“What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?
I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again”
“What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?”
“What are they after?” Kat asked. “Hard to say,” Hale said; again, he eyed the room. “Who is that?” Macey asked. “The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.”
“What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son.”
Source: Angela's Ashes
“What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?”
“What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog”
“What are they trying to do?” Davison asked. “I never heard of anything like this.”
I took my eyes off Ginger’s legs. “Gangsters,” I said.
“But they’ve gone out of style,” Davison said. “They don’t have gangsters any more.”
“Suppose you go out and tell them that,” I said.”
Source: Solomon's Vineyard
“What are they waiting to see?" Sam follows my gaze and I shrug. "Who knows? You could always do a dance, or tell a joke, or... kiss the bride?" "Not the bride," he wraps his arms around me, and gradually pulls me close. Our noses are practically touching. I can see right into his eyes. I can feel the warmth of his skin. "you." Me. "The girl who stole my phone." His lips brush across the corner of my mouth. "The thief." "It was in a bin." "Still stealing." "No it isn't-," I begin. But now his mouth is firmly on mine, and I can't speak at all. And suddenly, life is good.”
“What are those behaviors that make us take pause to think twice about a person’s trustworthiness? Guarded body language, lack of eye contact, nervous fidgeting, interrupting, speaking ill of others, lying, arrogance, and gossip to name a few.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“What are those bulb things you're slicing?"
"You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.”
Source: Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
“What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots!”
Source: The Address Of Happiness
“What are those people doing?" Jenna whispered to me.
"I don't know," I replied through a frozen grin, "but I'm afraid a musical number might be involved.”
Source: Demonglass
“What are those?" Ryker asked.
On the table were three large shot glasses, filled with vodka and topped with a spurt of whipped cream and sprinkles.
"Pancakes." I took one of the glasses, ready to knock it back.
"Dani, those are not pancakes," Ryker said, leaning forward to smell them. "That is vodka."
"Potato pancakes," I said, and I knocked mine back. "Don't judge a family tradition, it's a long story and you can't tell me I don't need a shot or three after what I went through."
He didn't looked impressed. "You drink as much as Gavin.”
Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?”
“What are two things Malcolm X, John F Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King have in common? They all were assassinated and they rebelled against the real owners of this country.”
“What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.”
“What are we actually saving ourselves from, other than the failed notion that we can save ourselves?”
“What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.”
“What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?”
“What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of books or 'covering' a fixed number of selections, or anyway striving for the blessed state of having read this, or the other. Having read a book means nothing. Reading a book may be the most tremendous experience of your life; having read it is an item in your memory, part of your receding past... Why we have that odd faith in the magic of having read a book, I don't know. We don't apply the same principle elsewhere: We don't believe in having heard Mendelssohn's violin concerto...
I say, don't read the classics -- try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.”
Source: How to Make Sense
“what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?”
Source: The Semi-detached House
“What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.”
“What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.”
“What are we born for?"
"For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...”
“What are we but a series of evolutions?' she said gaily, spearing another shell. 'Each one a better incarnation. One day you'll be a person who eats snails.”
Source: Delphine Jones Takes a Chance
“What are we but our stories?”
Source: Sam's letters to Jennifer
“What are we but shooting stars, hoping to shine long enough to make at least one soul believe in the magic.”
“What are we but stories that touch?”
Source: Lost Ark Dreaming
“What are we craving underneath the layers of protection we carefully construct around our hearts? Connection, visibility, a naked dance with another’s soul.”