W Quotes
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“What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.”
“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
Source: A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
“What can you take from me which is not already yours?”
“What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.”
“What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then another review says "this album is brilliant, except for that horrible and pointless song 'The Upside-Down Cross'," and another review will say "Jeffrey really sounds confident and relaxed on this new album", the next reviewer says "Jeffrey sounds more depressed and awful than ever" - these totally contrasting reviews happen all the time!”
“What can't be changed must be endured.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
“What can't be helped must be endured.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.”
“What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.”
“What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.”
“What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.”
“What candles are to cake; joy is to happiness.”
Source: You By You
“What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.”
“What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.”
“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.”
Source: Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Patience her injury a mock'ry makes.
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
“What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.”
“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“What cannot be said will be wept.”
“What cannot be said, will get wept.”
“what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes”
“What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.”
“What cannot hold you
is meant to carry on forward;
what cannot love you
is meant to free you fiercely.
What cannot stay here
is meant to let you live definitely.”
Source: The Willow Song
“What cannot hold you
is meant to carry you forward;
what cannot love you
is meant to free you fiercely.”
Source: The Willow Song
“What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“What capacity could have renovated your brain, endowing you with new, specialised skills as well as inducing specific codnitive deficits? This exotic mental ability is reading.”
Source: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
“What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.”
“What cardio is to bodybuilding, positive thoughts are to a healthy mind.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”
“What care is it of yours,” Gansey asked, “what I think of Orla?”
Blue held his gaze, unflinching. Crisp, she replied, “None at all.”
And it was a lie.
It should not have been, but it was, and Gansey, who prized honesty above nearly every other thing, knew it when he heard it. Blue Sargent cared whether or not he was interested in Orla. She cared a lot. As she whirled toward the truck with a dismissive shake of her head, he felt a dirty sort of thrill.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire”
“What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”
“What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.”
“What caused 2008, in my opinion, is that people just didn't see the risk. These people that took on all this risk didn't think they had it - they thought they hedged it all away. As long as there's a perception of risk, and a culture of looking for risk, it's going to be hard to deflate us.”
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine. I observed further with suitable refractors for the discovery of comets, and this is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the catalog.
After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].”
“What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.”
“What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.”
“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.”
Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.”
“What causes all this?"
"Pride. What else?”
Source: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
“What causes Conflict? Agnan (Delusionary knowledge, Knowledge other than the True Self).”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“What causes evil?" asked Yudhishthira.
"Greed is the ultimate root of every evil. People who covet what they do not have are prone to anger, and become obsessed. They are mean-spirited, enslaved by wanting. Those who pile up wealth for its own sake are often ruthless and contemptuous, despising those less well off than themselves. Lust comes from greed. Dishonesty, ill will, envy, ruthlessness - every kind of sin starts with desiring more than one possesses.
Ignorance springs from the selfsame root. Greed spreads its branches and the mind grows dark, unable to judge clearly...”
Source: Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
“What causes homophobia? What is it that makes the heterosexual man worry about this? I think it's because deep down all men know that we have weak sales resistance. We're constantly buying shoes that hurt us, pants that don't fit right. Men think, 'Obviously I can be talked into anything. What if I accidentally wander into some sort of homosexual store thinking it's a shoe store and the salesmen says, 'Just hold this guy's hand, walk around a little bit, see how it feels. No obligation, no pressure, just try it.'”
“What causes obstructions on the way to moksha (ultimate liberation)? Opinion. Leaving aside talk of Gnan (knowledge of the Self), Opinion does not allow one to understand even Agnan (Delusionary knowledge, Knowledge other than the True Self).”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“What causes recessions? Many economists talk about the need for a consumer economy, but we can't have a consumer economy if people can't afford to consume, and the only way they can afford to consume over the long run is if they create new wealth to either consume at that time or to defer as investments for later consumption. Simply put, the best way to have a functioning economy is to focus on having a wealth-producing economy. But when wealth can't be created in spite of the need for such, the production of wealth has been artificially limited, and this artificial limitation is the root cause of business recessions.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“What causes the collapse of the wave function? It is the entry of stimuli into the sensory apparatus of a conscious observer, such as photons of the right wave length hitting the human eye and entering the eye through a lens which focuses the light on to the retina. The retina then sends a signal to the brain via the optic nerve and the brain turns the information into the images we see. Those images and information from the other senses constitute the human sensory world. Clearly the images and other information could not exist without observation. Nothing else in the human sensory world exists without an observation being made, so why should the results of experiments, indicating the presence of quantum entities, which show in macro level experimental apparatus be any different?”
“What causes the illusion of the curvature of space is the limitation of language, thought, understanding, and the application of our limited language and beliefs to reality. We cannot change reality, but we can try to accommodate our thoughts and language in what appears to be a reality. Since the Nothing is “not” space, we are sure we can legitimately say that space can be curved. Nevertheless, we must first answer what space is. If we cannot precisely answer what space is, we cannot speculate that an absolute vacuum is not space. In other words, we cannot base our thoughts and language on consequences and conclusions rather than causes and premises.”
Source: ABSOLUTE