W Quotes
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“What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?”
Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more
“What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.”
“What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general. The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia. And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.”
“What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.”
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.”
“What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.”
“What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things”
“What divide us are not our Differences but our prejudicial attitudes towards others.”
“What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.”
“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.”
“What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.”
“What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“What do angels look like? I saw one today wering gaudy jewelry, spoke with a thick Spanish accent, quoted 'Chakespeare.' She said, 'All the world's a stage and sometimes you just gotta roll with los punches.”
Source: The Persistence of Yellow: Book of Recipes for Life
“What do any of us do in the end except what we believe is right at the time, without having all of the information, without knowing how things will turn out? We leap into the darkness with our only protection our idea of what is right, and who can ask of us than that?”
Source: Our Fathers
“What do any of us ever truly know?”
Source: Wittgenstein's mistress
“What do any of us really know about love?”
Source: Beginners
“What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.”
“What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“What do batteries run on?”
“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.”
“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.”
“What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!”
“What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.”
Source: The Hidden Life of Dogs
“What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.”
“What do dreams know of boundaries?”
“What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?”
Source: OyMG
“What do dreams mean anyway? They’re just a lot of silly nonsense.’
‘Or wish fulfilment. The subconscious representation of our true desires.”
Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies
“What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death.”
“What do electromagnetic field exposures do to the human? They thicken the blood and make it sticky. Sticky blood cells are called “Rouleaux”. It seems that sticky blood eventually produces micro clots within the human that can be felt when they walk into an electromagnetic field that causes Rouleaux. There does seem to be a delay between being exposed to Rouleaux blood and feeling the effects, and that can be hours long.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“What do Fans produce? Fans produce meanings and interpretations; fans produce art-works; fans produce communities; fans produce alternative Identities. In each case, fans are drawing on materials from the dominant media and employing them in ways that serve their own interests and facilitate their own pleasures.”
“What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.”
“What do gardeners do when they retire?”
“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”
“What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.”
“What do guys with big dicks say in the morning?”
“Huh?” The question confused him. “What?”
Lea nodded. “Yeah, I didn’t think you’d know.”
Source: Poisonfeather
“What do Halloween creatures eat?
Hot spider soup with pumpkin meat
and toasted, no-salt, bat-wing chips,
served best with Transylvania dips.
A thistle-horehound salad mix
has added crunch from sun-dried ticks.
The plat du jour is hairy beast
fried crisp in grimy goblin grease.
Now, don’t forget dessert so sweet;
try puss-cream pie or candied feet!”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities.”
“What do hookers do on their nights off, type?”
“What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward-turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence”
Source: Pure Colour
“What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.”
Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
“What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.”
“What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt”
“What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better under immense pressure, tribulation, and trials.”
“What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.”
Source: The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987
“What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.”
“What do I believe that I deserve in this life?”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.”
“What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant