W Quotes
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“What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.”
“What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?”
Source: Lady Midnight
“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.”
“What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”
Source: A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
“What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.”
Source: The Last Valentine
“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked.
“Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the trunk.
Cadmus shook his head. “Idiot.”
Source: Chasing Odysseus
“What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
Source: The Abundance
“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
Source: America as a Civilization
“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
“What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?”
“What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.”
“What counts as a "Christian" is always achieved, never given. It all depends on who gets control of the local franchise.”
Source: Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
“What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.”
“What counts as social infrastructure? I define it capaciously. Public institutions such as libraries, schools, playgrounds, parks, athletic fields, and swimming pools are vital parts of the social infrastructure. So too are sidewalks, courtyards, community gardens, and other green spaces that invite people into the public realm. Community organizations, including churches and civic associations, act as social infrastructures when they have an established physical space where people can assemble, as do regularly scheduled markets for food, furniture, clothing, art, and other consumer goods. Commercial establishments can also be important parts of the social infrastructure, particularly when they operate as what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg called "third spaces," places (like cafes, diners, barbershops, and bookstores) where people are welcome to congregate and linger regardless of what they've purchased.”
Source: Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
“What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.”
“What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.”
“What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.”
Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
“What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.”
“What counts in the end is what the government does.”
“What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.”
“What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.”
Source: How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People
“What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?”
“What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.”
Source: The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.”
“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“What counts is passing on your art, in its every detail, to whoever picks up the baton. Something like that, anyway”
Source: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
“What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.”
“What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.”
“What counts is the cultural level”
Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound
“What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.”
“What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.”
Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.”
“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”
Source: The Ever-Present Origin
“What counts that we’re not counting?”
Source: BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
“What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.”
Source: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”
Source: You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!”
Source: Life and letters
“What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.”
“What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“What course are you on, then?" she asks. "History."
"So you want to read about people who died before you can even remember," she teases, nudging me in the arm.
I take a moment to think about what it means to me so that the words come out right.
"History is who we are," I say finally. "The past shapes us. Even the parts you can't remember”
Source: The Falling in Love Montage
“What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)