W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What deal is [Maxine Waters] talking about? [Rex] Tillerson's done a lot of deals. [Donald] Trump's done a lot of deals, but she's got a deal in mind that Tillerson negotiated with [Vladimir] Putin. Putin is there, or Tillerson's there to lift the sanctions.”
“What death does, love can do while living, you think yourself separate, love can make you one with the universe.
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“What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined”
“What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all.”
Source: Casanova
“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.”
“What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.”
“What defines a person are not one's financial or physical attributes or beliefs. Instead, it's the choices that one makes in surmounting life's challenges" . . . Lucinda, Chapter 1, Blackhorse Road.”
Source: Blackhorse Road: A novel of deception and forgiveness and love gained and lost
“What…defines a person as a unique individual? A natural disposition? A face? A vocabulary of gestures? Are we born individuals…or do we mold ourselves into unique creatures through our experiences and accomplishments? Every human enters the world with a vast, incalculable potential. But myriad factors invariably conspire to prevent us from fully achieving that potential.”
Source: Upgrade Soul
“What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.”
“What defines a romance? All scholars seem to converge on a single point: it is a story that must have a happy ending. And why is that? I say, it is because a romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. For the only true end is death - and in this way, is romance not a rebuke of mortality? When love is here, I am not. When love is not, I am gone. Perhaps a romance is a story with no end at all; where the end is but a wardrobe with a false back, leading to stranger and more merciful words.
From an epistemological theory of romance by Dr. Edmund Huber, collected in the Llyrian Journal of Literary Criticism, 199 AD”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“What defines me? Skin? I hope I'm more than that. Than this. That I am what I think, what I believe. What I feel.”
Source: Enders
“What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.”
“What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.”
“What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.”
Source: Think
“What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.”
“What defines us is what we do when we become too sick to work.”
“What defines us when memory and recognition don’t match?”
Source: The Time in Between
“What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.”
Source: Globalization: A Basic Text
“What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.”
“What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.”
“What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?”
“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”
Source: Suttree
“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
Source: DUNE
“What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!”
Source: The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts
“What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.”
Source: The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]
“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”
“What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?”
“What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.”
“What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.”
“What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'”
“What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.”
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes
That act external to our sleeping selves?
Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, -
Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride,
And not in prowess, but pride undefined,
Autonomous in its unthought demands,
A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”
“What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!”
“What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
“What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.”
“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge,
Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in,
Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being,
Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold,
Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old.”
“What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.”
“What destroyed the nations preceding you, was that if a noble amongst them stole, they would forgive him, and if a poor person amongst them stole, they would inflict legal punishment on him. By God, if Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad stole, I would cut off her hand”
“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'”
“What destroys one man preserves another.”
Source: Chief Plays of Corneille
“What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”