W Quotes
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“What comes into your life will either feel aligned with your true nature or it won't.”
Source: The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight
“What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.”
“What comes out of this life is his business, but what I do will never be what makes me who I am. Because this is so, when suffering comes, it doesn’t have the power to unravel God’s design. Instead, the suffering becomes part of the fabric (p. 155).”
Source: Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
“What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.”
“What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.”
“What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.”
“What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.”
“what comes to mind are the things I learned from my classmates, my friends-what we found funny, writers we loved and hated, drunken walks back to campus from downtown Orono in snowstorms and rainstorms, and talking, talking, talking.”
“What comes to mind when you think of Clay Coolidge?"
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"Sex appeal, boozehound, makes love to the mic, rock star, stadium filler.”
Source: You'd Be Mine
“What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.”
“What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.”
Source: Selections from political writings (1910-1920)
“What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.”
“What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.”
“What comes upon me does not make me or break me. I am strong. I am a warrior. I am here. I am whole. I am now.”
“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.”
“What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.”
“What comes, is called.”
“What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.”
“What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!”
“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
Source: The Night in Lisbon: A Novel
“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”
“What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.”
“What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.”
“What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.”
“What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?”
Source: The Edge of Never
“What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.”
“What? Computer pictures? You sit in Paris and you talk of computer pictures?’ The Doctor sprang to his feet, [...] ‘Come on,’ his voice boomed over a car horn. ‘I’ll show you some real pictures done by real people.”
Source: Doctor Who: City of Death
“What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.”
“What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
“What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?”
Source: A Heritage and its History
“What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.”
“What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.”
“What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.”
“What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.”
“What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.”
“What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.”
“What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about "healing the wounds of division," that is right out of Orwell.”
“What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.”
Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)
“What concerns me," she said, "is that he's treading a fine line between fighting evil and becoming it.”
Source: Crown of Souls
“What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.”
“What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.”
Source: Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents
“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.”
“What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know.”
Source: The Penitent
“What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
“What condition?’
‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’
‘Ah.’ If there was one thing which every policeman knew it was that families were bad for every medical condition, but especially for heart ones. Legs were less important.”
Source: Stiff News
“What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard to make a garbage bin that bears couldn’t break into, said, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
Source: How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
“What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version of ourselves. To "cultivate one's moral character" is the first step towards taking responsibility for the nation, and for society. Confucius and his disciples struggled hard to be "the best version" of themselves, but their aim in this was to better carry out their responsibilities to the society in which they lived.”
“What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.”