W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
“What can be more exciting than that?" "Fighting ShadowClan”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.”
“What can be more gorgeous than the sunlight streaming through the flowers? Glowworm crawling among the fallen leaves at night, or an act of random kindness, perhaps.”
“What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?”
“What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?”
Source: Heroic Enthusiasts
“What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“What can be referred to as true internal penance? It is when the heart is actually burning within and One peacefully remains as the Knower-Seer of that.”
Source: The Current Living Tirthankara Shree Simandhar Swami
“What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?”
Source: Collected Works
“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.”
“What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.”
“What can be said here except divine spirits descend from heaven even into poor houses and into royal houses come spirits which deserve more to look after pigs than be lords over men?”
“What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”
“What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.”
“What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness.”
“What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.”
“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“What can be shown?
What true love be?
All could be known or shown
If Time were but gone.”
Source: The Major Works
“What can be spoken of soon comes to be condoned.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?”
“what can be the best way to express emotions, if not literature”
“What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.”
“What can be used to heal, can also be used to hurt.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?”
Source: Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)
“What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live...?”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.”
Source: Point of the lance
“What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.”
“What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.”
“What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.”
“What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
“What can ever equal the memory of being young together?”
Source: In the Age of Love
“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”
“What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?”
“What can go wrong will go wrong.”
“What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.”
“What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.”
“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.”
“What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.”
“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
“What can he [Ettore Navarra] know except what he sees while staring at that young woman [Hirut] grasping knotted red silk as if she were born to be draped in it: a beauty incomprehensible and ferocious, strong enough to break through bone and settle into a heart and split it forever.”
Source: The Shadow King
“What can he know except what he sees while staring at that young woman grasping knotted silk as if she was born to be draped in it: a beauty incomprehensible and ferocious, strong enough to break through bone and settle into a heart and split it forever.”
Source: The Shadow King
“What can I but enumerate old themes?”
Source: The Major Works
“What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?”
“What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate, impassioned call for murder?”
Source: Experimental Film