W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.”
“What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?”
“What can the dove of Jesus give
You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute
“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
“What can the harvest hope for...”
Source: Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book
“What can the land power do, exactly? Like, what kind of... work?"
Belva paused. "It helps us in all ways--- with our bodies that move is and the plants that feed us and the weather around us. It helps us love the people who are here, and to stay connected to the people who have moved on. It protects us from people who seek to do us harm. It provides whatever we need, as long as we pay our respects and give back.”
Source: Strange Folk
“What can the living do for one another? To love each other.”
“What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.”
“What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.”
Source: Essential Einstein
“What can the will do when the heart commands?”
“What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?”
“What can there be that is splendid in my life? - a farmer's son, with perhaps the chance of a country church as my highest hope - after all kinds od signings, and confessions, and calls, and presbyteries. It would be splendid indeed to be plucked by a country presbytery that didn't know six words of Greek, or objected to by a congregation of ploughmen.”
Source: A Son of the Soil
“What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”
Source: The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose
“What can they suffer that do not fear to die?”
“What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?”
Source: History of My Religious Opinions
“What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
“what can we do
when even the public conveyances
sing?
how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
how get out of anywhere”
Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?”
Source: Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
“What can we do, Anna Pavlovna? We're all mere mortals! We are born to suffering, as it says in the Bible.”
Source: The Same Old Story
“What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?”
Source: West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
“What can we do if all hope lost
Our dreams shattered to wild wind tossed
A change if course avoid the storm?
Or plough on shattered by deluge of norm?
Can you see bright through tunnel's gloom?
Or just a dream endless work at loom
Will kind hand be leant to rescue me?
High seas amidst in fear you'll flee?”
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”
“What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.”
Source: The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
“What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.”
“What can we do to maintain slowness in the face of those periods of busyness? How can we avoid overload, exhaustion, or even burnout?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, my answer is simply to pay attention.
I recognize the way I'm inclined to stay up late, the way I will procrastinate at every option- and instead of spiraling into that overwhelming sense of too much, I check in with myself.
Why am I feeling this way? What has changed? What is there more of? What is there less of?
Become better at recognizing the signs of a looming backslide and pay close attention to the areas of our lives that have the greatest impact, ensuring they never slip too far out of hand.
Nicholas Bate refers to this regular checking in as "taking your MEDS" or more specifically, paying attention to:
- Mindfulness
- Exercise
- Diet
- Sleep
Once I recognize which of these areas has changed, its simpler (not necessarily easier) to recognize the issue and start fixing it. Sometimes the changes aren't in my control, so I need to look for ways of finding slow by creating more opportunities for a moment of deep breathing or paying close attention to whats in front of me. But other times, I've simply lost sight of what works, and its a matter of adding more of these things I've neglected- Mindfulness, simplicity, kindness- and reducing the things that don't serve me well.
Above all else, though, I simply go back to my Why.
I call to mind the foundation of this life I want. The vivid imaging of a life well lived. The loved ones, the generosity, the adventure, and the world I want to leave behind. And if that feels too big, I call to mind even smaller reminders, like the warm pressure of my kids hands in mine, the wholeness of a good conversation with Ben, the lightness of simply sitting quietly.
Our Why is the antidote to overload. Its a call back to the important things and a reminder that we don't need to carry the weight of everything- only those things that are important to us.”
Source: Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
“What can we do to make the world's children a priority.”
“What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?”
“What can we do to restore and heal the balance? In order to find balance, we need to equalize human rights and the economic situation of women and men; and we must move away from religions that model male dominance into spiritual models of partnership and respect for our precious planet. It is by empowering the sacred feminine and by listening to the earth as she tries to communicate with us that we ultimately heal.”
Source: Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
“What can we do to win these men to Christ?”
“What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed”
Source: The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
“What can we do without pain in front of happiness?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“What can we expect from an empty shell
Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell
Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of love
Wailing shore sends memoir to the sky above”
“What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?”
Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“What can we give a child when there is nothing left?”
“What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.”
“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.”
Source: The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between stars.”
Source: An American Childhood
“What can we not endure,
When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?”
“What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.”
“What can we really do for this Imperium? Can we sustain it now, bearing its weight on our shoulders? Not the way we were made. But we can kill for it. We can break, we can burn, we can unmake. We have done everything they asked of us. We have held their battle line, scored it with our own blood, and it has not been enough. If we are to die here, on a world that has no soul and no open sky to rejoice in, then we will die doing what we were schooled to do.”
Source: Warhawk
“What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.”
“What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.”
“What can we say with certainty?”
“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”
Source: The Journals
“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade”
“What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.”
Source: Euripides