W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.”
Source: A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm
“What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.”
“What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.”
“What central banks can control is a base and one way they can control the base is via manipulating a particular interest rate, such as a Federal Funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks lend to one another. But they use that control to control what happens to the quantity of money. There is no disagreement.”
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
Source: Strangers on a Train
“What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?”
“What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
“What chance has a lonely surfer boy
For the love of a surfer chick,
With all these Humbert Humbert cats
Coming on so big and sick?
For me, my baby was a woman.
For him she’s just another nymphet.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“What chance of survival does a culture have
when its own elites actively seek its destruction?”
“What change comes to you depends on your circumstance.”
“What change has made the pastures sweet
And reached the daisies at my feet,
And cloud that wears a golden hem?
This lovely world, the hills, the sward--
They all look fresh, as if our Lord
But yesterday had finished them.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“What changed?" Frustration tightens my grip on the mug. "When exactly did you decide not to ruin me?"
"Maybe it was when I saw Oren holding a knife to your throat," he says. "Or maybe it was when I realised the bruises on your neck were fingerprints and wanted to kill them all over again just so I could do it slowly. Maybe it was the first time I recklessly kissed you or when I realised I'm fucked because I can't stop thinking about doing more than just kissing you."
My breath catches at his admission, but he just sighs, lets his head fall back against the wall. "Does it even matter when, as long as it changed between us?'
Don't do that,'" I whisper, and he lifts his head again to hold my gaze.
"Do what? Tell you I can't get you out of my head? Or speak directly into yours?”
Source: Fourth Wing
“What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.”
“What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.”
“What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.”
“What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?”
“What changes a life is not simply learning more, though education is important. What changes a life is making decisions − the best decisions you can make − and acting on them.”
“What changes is the mindset from which he is seeing life. Sometimes, it is higher. Sometimes, it is lower. When it is higher, he is more strongly confident in his attachment to you. When it is lower, he gets pulled by all the offerings of the ego and the people in his life who share those values with him. He doesn’t know that he is constantly gravitating between the two. Otherwise, it would be easy to fix, and it is not. One has to learn to recognise both mindsets and understand the consequences of each.”
Source: Faith
“What changes life is never planned, and that is the true beauty of existence.”
Source: The Art of Connection: Rediscovering Ourselves Through Life’s Unpredictability
“What changes when a woman marries? What does a woman lose and what does she gain? For Abishag, marrying king David gave her instant status. As a wife, impugning Abishag's character meant a swift death. As a wife, she inspired fear.
What changes when a woman is widowed? For Abishag, it meant foreign women came to Jerusalem to marry Solomon--and she was relegated to that of a spectator. In Abishag's widowhood, none feared her.”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.”
“What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.”
“What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!”
“What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever product or service you are providing and figure out ways of making it better, faster, cheaper. The other quality is empathy and insight into what people might want, even though they don't even know their wants, probably because there's no product or service to test their wants.”
“What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.”
“What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.”
“What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.”
“What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.”
“What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.”
Source: Dynamic Characters
“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”
“What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.”
“What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.”
“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.”
Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II
“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.”
“What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?”
Source: Poems
“What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.”
“What children and teens need most in stressful situations, especially when they make mistakes, ‘misbehave,’ experience ‘failure,’ or cry for any reason (including what we might call a ‘temper tantrum’), is a hug and being told, “You matter to me, I love you so much. I’m here for you. Let’s figure this out together.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone”
“What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.”
“What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.”
“What children need and want is not some new pedagogical method, but the world that already exists. They want to play in nature, plant things, be with animals, participate in the upkeep of their environment. They want to assimilate the culture and knowledge acquired by humanity in the countless generations preceding them, and they want to do this in a living way that is not sequentially programmed. They want to learn to speak, count, read, write, to discover geography and the mysteries of the universe, to learn music, mathematical code, biology, history, all about dinosaurs, and so on. And if we take the trouble to present the whole reality to our children in conditions that make sense to them, we will be very surprised at how quickly they leave their toys aside when they distract them from their real task: studying the real world that they were just born into, understanding it, becoming specialists in it.”
Source: The Natural Laws of Children: Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired
“What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”
“What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.”
Source: Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)
“What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.”
“What chilled my blood was a felt marker outline of a woman on the wall. Hands above the head, where there was a hook, then below the shape of the head, a neck strap. Then a waist strap, and two ankle clamps. The silhouette gave me no doubt that Gina had been confined here. But where was she now?”
Source: Tiger and the Robot
“What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.”
Source: The Venetian Betrayal