W Quotes
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“What came to mind was a dinosaur. A tiny velociraptor, no bigger than her thumb.
Relatively small, bur surprisingly ferocious.
When the hasty drawing was finished, he looked into Nova's face, but she was staring at the creature inked onto her palm. "He's adorable," she murmured.
He swallowed. "Here we go," he said swirling the pad of his finger over the drawing.
The creature roared to life...”
Source: Renegades
“What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.”
“What came up mostly to the newsmen was the speechlessness of this vast caravan of misery and the persistent sound, like rain, of children crying.”
Source: The Killing Fields
“What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.”
“What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient!”
Source: Paradise lost
“What can a corporate slave loser like him do? I haven't done anything wrong. If I take a fancy to a certain woman, then I'll make her mine. Hasn't that always been the tradition between men and women, handed down since ancient times?"
"Shiraha, you said before that the strongest men get the women, didn't you? So you're contradicting yourself."
"True. I'm not working at the moment, but I've got a vision. Once I start my business, I'll have women flocking to me."
"Well then, wouldn't the proper way be for you to do that first? Then you'd be able to choose from all those women running after you."
Shiraha looked down awkwardly. "Anyway, nothing's changed since the Stone Age. It's just that nobody realizes that. In the final analysis, we're all animals," he said, going off on a tangent. "If you ask me, this is a dysfunctional society. And since it's defective, I'm treated unfairly."
I thought he was probably right about that, and I couldn't imagine what a functioning society would be like. I was beginning to lose track of what society actually was. I even had a feeling it was all an illusion.”
Source: コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“What can a good guru do for you? Maybe he can teach you at 20 what you can only understand at 60 and save your 40 years! Well, what can you do to someone who saved your 40 years? You can save someone else's 40 years too, and the goal of a good guru is everyone's salvation, and you pay off your debt by serving that purpose!”
“What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!”
“What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?”
Source: The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan
“What can a man do who has become the slave of the innumerable needs and habits he has invented for himself?”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”
Source: Confucius: The Analects
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?”
“What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?”
“What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.”
“What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.”
“What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and the uneducated?”
“What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?”
“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”
“What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.”
“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”
“What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.”
“What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
“What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.”
Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“What can appear to us twenty-first century people to be an unhealthy fascination with death and mourning in Victorian culture may in fact have been a source of powerful mental resilience. They were 'in touch' with birth and death. Today grieving and mourning are perceived as weakness, almost sickness, to be conquered and overcome. It might be better to accept bereavement, as the Victorians did, as an integral part of life.”
Source: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
“What can art really do in the face of atrocity?”
“What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.”
“What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
“What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?”
Source: Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation): BookCaps Study Guide
“What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.”
“What can be broken, should be broken.”
“What can be considered as conduct that is universally accepted (syadvaad vartan)? It is conduct that appears fascinating, it appears to win over people's minds.”
Source: Spirituality in Speech
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.”
“What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.”
Source: It: 2
“What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.”
Source: The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
“What can be easier for you than to become ‘Yourself’?
That is why it is said that nothing is easier than becoming God.”
Source: THE SECRETS OF DESTINY
“What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.”
Source: Philosophical Writings: A Selection
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
“What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?”
“What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.”
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?”
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
“What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?”
“What can be hoped for which is not believed?”
“What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?”
“What can be is not what it is,
And what's possible is not the present. Things we can do is not how we act,
And what we can be is not who we are.”
Source: Eclipse: Trapped in Darkness
“What Can Be Learned From a Thief
The saintly Rabi Zusya was originally a disciple of the tsaddik Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritsh. Once he asked his master to teach him the secret of worshipping the Creator. “There’s no need for me to teach you,” replied Rabbi Dov Baer, “because you can learn it from any child or thief.”
“Why, how can I learn it from a child?” asked the astounded disciple.
“In three ways,” replied his master. “First, a child needs no reason to be happy. Second, a child always keeps busy. And third, when a child wants something, it screams until it gets it.”
“And what,” asked Rabbi Zusya, “can I learn from a thief?”
“From a thief,” answered Rabbi Dov Baer, “you can learn seven things. First, to apply yourself by night and not just by day. Second, to try again if at first you don’t succeed. Third, to love your comrades. Fourth, to be ready to risk your life, even for a small thing. Fifth, to attach so little value to what you have that you will sell it for a pittance. Sixth, not to be put off by hardship and blows. And seventh, to be glad you are what you are instead of wanting to be something else.”
Source: Jewish Folktales
“What can be locked is just our movement. If we lock our lives it would be our own decision
Our feelings, expression, creativity, spirit, enthusiasm and care can never be locked.”
“What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?”
Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author
“What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?”
Source: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life