W Quotes
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“What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.”
“What can I do but force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence that when I open my eyes and look down at my new hands with their thumbs that are able to close tightly around their fingers, I will already know. I will already see.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“What can I do for you?”
I had no idea why he’d want to speak to me, but my heart was thudding and the butterflies in my stomach were going crazy.
“Well,” he began. “I was wondering if you’d come to dinner with me.”
“Me,” I gasped.
Dex chuckled. “Yeah you, Katie.”
“Are you sure you mean me?”
He full on laughed. “Yeah, darlin’, I do mean you.”
“I…I don’t…I’d love to.”
Source: Pelvic Flaws
“What can I do?” he asked. “To start taking care of you?”
Source: Whisper Falls
“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”
“What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.”
Source: The Ersatz Elevator
“What can I do more to increase the chances of success and what can I do less to reduce the chances of failure?”
Source: Quantraz
“What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture.”
“What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do? Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea, Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?”
“What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.”
“What can I do?" Salix pulled away. "Can I make you a cup of tea? Want to go for a walk?"
"I just want to stop worrying so much!" I can't even do anything, so what's the point?"
"You told me that you can't really help it, right?" She wiped my tears with her shirt.
I nodded.
"So worry. Just go ahead and worry. Worry as hard as you can, and then keep worrying."
"That sounds awful."
"But if you can't stop worrying, you have to figure out how to worry and keep living, right? We need to find you a really, really big box."
"What for?"
"Not a box. A backpack."
"What?"
"For you to put your worries in, so that you can take them with you, and when you figure out how to not worry so much, you can get rid of them one at a time. And then the backpack will get lighter and lighter until you'll be so light you'll float off the ground."
I kissed her then, because there were no words for how much I liked her in that moment. Loved her, maybe.”
Source: 10 Things I Can See From Here
“What can I do? She's here to help Kale."
"Sure she is. And I'm Ke$ha.”
Source: Toxic
“What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?”
Source: Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
“What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.”
Source: SHOGUN
“What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.”
“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”
“What can I do to make you understand I will not run? What can I say?"
He gazes at me, revealing his fear and anguish again. He swallows. "There is one thing you can do."
"What?" I snap.
"Marry me," he whispers.”
“What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.”
“What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.”
“What can I do today to take a step forward?”
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”
Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet”
“What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.”
Source: Transit
“What can I get you? (Wulf) How about someone else to have this kid for me? (Cassandra)”
“What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
I give Him my heart.”
Source: Poems and prose
“What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"
He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his hand. "Shall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish.”
Source: Wicked Lovely
“What can I have that I still want?”
“What can I hope when all is right?”
Source: The complete works of Voltaire
“What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?”
“What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?”
“What can I not doubt? The reality of suffering. It brooks no arguments. Nihilists cannot undermine it with scepticism. Totalitarians cannot banish it. Cynics cannot escape from its reality. Suffering is real, and the artful infliction of suffering on another, for its own sake, is wrong. That became the cornerstone of my belief.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.”
“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
Source: White Oleander
“What can I say about my first real relationship, the one I had with Raylan Thompson? That he was charming, and easy on the eyes... a brave military man like my father. However, if I was being honest with myself, he wasn’t my Pierre Curie or Frederic Joliot. I never felt the way the songs say you’re supposed to feel if you love someone. Sure, I really liked him, but I always knew I could live without him. Our relationship was unstable, like radioactive decay, or boron- 7—a substance that didn’t last, as though it had never been there at all.”
“What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.”
“What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?”
Source: The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no
“What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't.”
“What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“What can I say?” he says when I ask him back at the beach house about it. “I just know how to get along with kids.”
Rachel, who’s sitting at the kitchen table, snorts. “Mostly because you never grew up.”, Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“What can I say? I am a man of multiple talents.”
Source: Just For A While
“What can I say? I cleaned up nicely”
Source: Half-Blood
“What can I say? I get fucked a lot. When you come this often and this hard you can’t help but swagger.”
Source: The Last Single Man in Texas
“What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift.”
Source: House of Leaves
“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by the festival of living.”
Source: House of Leaves
“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.”
Source: House of Leaves
“What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“What can I say? Watching you play rugby makes me horny.”
His fingers lightly stroked her back. “In that case, I’ll get you a season pass.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“What can I say, will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?”
“What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?”
Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)