W Quotes
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“What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.”
“What do we believe? Why do we believe it?”
“What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.”
“What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.”
“What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“What do we call this moment? A serendipity mixed into a nostalgia mixed into a deja vu mixed into an epiphany!”
“What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.”
“What do we choose it imagine, when we choose? The answer is always revelatory, which is one of the reasons Chesterton was right to say that 'the simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious people play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important.' The Harry Potter books remind us of this, and they can be, if we read them rightly, both a delight in themselves and a school for our own imaginings. They have many flaws, but I have not dwelt on them here because I forgive J.K. Rowling for every one. Her seven books are, and thank God for it, always on the side of life.
(The Youngest Brother's Tale)”
Source: Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
“What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?”
“What do we do by following these words or rules, laws, prophets and their revelations, and religions? We only believe in those who uttered and wrote these words and revelations. However, we do not know if there were any revelations in the first place or even if they were “real” to become the measures or expressions of truth or God automatically. There is nothing beyond this secret except our belief not in God but in the people (so-called prophets).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.”
“What do we do now?" Gansey asked.
From the other room, Calla bellowed, "GO BUY US PIZZA. WITH EXTRA CHEESE, RICHIE RICH."
Blue said, "I think she's starting to like you.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“What do we do now?" I asked, trying to silence the screams in my head.
"We go on" Adam said. "We keep going".
I nodded but I did not ask my next question. How?”
Source: They Wish They Were Us
“What do we do now?” I asked.
“We keep you safe,” he said, kissing the top of my head.
I didn't understand everything that was going on in this strange town. I
had no idea if the picture he'd drawn would really come true. But I knew he
wouldn't lie to me. And I knew that he would be there for me. Some wall
between us had come crashing down.
There in his arms, I felt safer than I ever dreamed I could.”
Source: Beautiful Demons
“What do we do now, now that we are happy?”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?”
“What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?”
Source: Long Live the Post Horn!
“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
“What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?”
“What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.”
“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!”
“What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”
“What do we find, here in America, in the field of 'politics?'
We find first a party system which is the technical arrangement to carry on a fight. It is perfectly conceivable that a flourishing democratic government be carried on without any parties at all; public functionaries being elected on their merits, and each proposed measure judged on its merits; though this sounds impossible to the androcentric mind.
'There has never been a democracy without factions and parties!" is protested.
There has never been a democracy, so far--only an androcracy.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“What do we get out of people thinking we’re fine? I mean, I know I get threatening letters on our dashboard when we’re upstate and we park in a handicapped space. You get teachers who don’t believe you when you need a break, and people not giving up seats on the subway, and your dad thinking you’re fine. How would your life actually be harder if you looked sick?”
Source: Sick Kids in Love
“What do we get when the Donald exposes his enormous ass? A trump roast.”
“What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?”
“What do we have here? Is my super-hot assassin boyfriend freaked out by clowns?”
Source: Untouched
“What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?”
“What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.”
“What do we have really?
Sad tricks with ladders and shoes,
tricks with salt, impurely motivated recurring
attempts to build character.”
Source: Poems, 1962-2012
“What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.”
“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.”
Source: The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
“What do we know of the man
who passes us in the street?
Do we notice his multitudes
— the million masterpieces of his mind?
There aren’t enough years to really know someone.
He has already changed in the passing.
Come, it is getting late.
Let me share my infinite selves.”
“What do we know … of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.”
“What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?”
Source: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”
“What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.”
“What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.”
“What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?”
“What do we mean by a public square? For starters, it is rarely square. . . . It may be a quadrangle or rectangle or circle or pretty much any shape, and it can be open or closed. It might even be a park . . . through which people pass, going from one place to another, not simply a retreat. A square is porous, balancing its porousness with some focal point, like a fountain or a reliable patch of sun with some benches that marks a break from the cars and streets and invites people to stop, look, exhale, find one another [Michael Kimmelman, "Part One: Culture: Power of the Place, Introduction"].”
Source: City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
“What do we mean by individuality? It is a unified plurality, an enlargement of one's possibilities and their subordination to the principal purpose that determines all. Without a purpose, individuality does not exist.”
Source: Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
“What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today no one seriously expects to go hungry in England or to live without running water or medical care or even TV. Poverty has been redefined in industrial countries, so that anyone at the lower end of the income distribution is poor ex officio, as it were-poor by virtue of having less than the rich. And of course by this logic, the only way of eliminating poverty is by an egalitarian redistribution of wealth-even if the society as a whole were to become poorer as a result.”
Source: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
“What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.”
Source: On War
“What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.”