W Quotes
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“What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom.”
“What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.”
Source: Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
“What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.”
“What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!”
“What do we need to talk about?” I ground out, folding my arms to keep myself from hitting him with a blast of akasha, the fifth and most powerful element only the gods and the Apollyon could wield. It wouldn’t kill him, but sure as hell would sting like a bitch.
Apollo shifted his gaze to the dark ocean. “Do you have to always be so messy?”
My brows rose. “Huh?”
“Back there,” he said, jerking his chin to where the lights from the mansion twinkled in the distance. “Do you always have to be so messy when you dispatch those who betrayed us?”
“Do I have to? No.”
“Then why?” He looked at me.
Killing them the way I did was unnecessary. I could just blast them into nothing, make it quick, neat, and painless, but that’s not how I rolled. Maybe in the beginning I’d been less…violent, but not anymore. Not when my sole purpose of existence was carrying out the gods’ dirty work. Because every time I saw one of their faces, I thought of my own major screw-ups, and they were plentiful, and that made me think of— I cut that thought off. I was so not going down that road tonight without a bottle of whiskey.
“You all turned me into the Terminator. What did you expect?” I shrugged. “Is this what you wanted to talk to me about? My method of carrying out your orders? I’d think you’d have better things to do than pop up just to bitch at me because I made a mess.”
“It’s not just making a mess, Seth, and you know that. It’s you.”
Source: The Return
“What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?”
“What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.”
“What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.”
“What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.”
“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.”
“What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.”
“What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?”
“What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.”
“What do we want from each other
after we have told our stories”
“What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?”
“What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.”
“What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?”
Source: The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
“What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?”
Source: Sesame and Lilies
“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.”
“What do women know of war? Tucker had flung at her the other day. You are never called upon to kill. Sonia slowly walks away from the small light of the kitchen, headed toward the car. No, we are never called upon, she thinks. We are merely conscripted at birth.”
Source: Witches on the Road Tonight
“What do women want at that time of the month?" He clapped his hands together. "We have the answer."
"Oh yes, please," Daisy muttered. "Mansplain to us what we want at that time of the month."
"We've done some preliminary market research," Brad said. "Women want to feel excited about pulling out a box of menstrual products each month, something to distract them from the unpleasant side effects." He clicked to a slide of a woman standing on a beach with a huge smile on her face and a box of pads in her hand.
Unpleasant side effects. Daisy choked back a snort.
"This is our vision." Brad's next slide featured a woman with long blond hair, dressed only in a piece of pink chiffon, straddling an unsaddled white horse with a pink horn attached to its head. Ribbons fluttering from its mane, the horse galloped through a field of flowers toward a rainbow in a purple sky.
Is he serious? Mia mouthed.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.”
“What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.”
“What do women want? Shoes.”
“What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.”
“What do women who live in houses, wear traditional long skirts, speak Romani to their family members and are offended when somebody calls them 'Gypsies' have in common with women who live in caravans, wear shorts, use only the occasional Romani word and refer to themselves as 'Gypsies?' What does a Romani coppersmith in Bulgaria share with a Romani used-car dealer in Los Angeles? How can a Spanish musician of Gitano background feel represented by a Hungarian Romani member of the European Parliament?”
Source: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
“What do years have to do with age?”
Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING
“What do yo think human flesh tastes like?”
“What do you actually care about?"
"People," I said.
"All right, E.M. Forster.”
Source: Early Work
“What do you actually need to manifest your best work? The answer is unusually simple. Essentially, you need clarity of purpose and energy. Work is not complex. Know your purpose. Be present. Act decisively, and don't be attached to the results of the action.”
Source: True Work: The Sacred Dimension of Earning a Living
“What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.”
“What do you believe in?’ asked David.
‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?”
Source: Quixotic
“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
“What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.”
“What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.”
Source: Aphorisms
“What do you call a comedian who runs for president? A trump card.”
“What do you call a guy who brings dinner for a rancor?
An Appetizer!”
“What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.”
“What do you call a person who repeatedly tries to influence the outcome of those issues that do not even concern him?”
Source: Quantraz
“What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.”
Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
“What do you call a relationship of give and take. You give - I take?”
Source: Quantraz
“What do you call a rifle with three barrels?
A trifle.”
Source: Biggest Riddle Book in the World
“What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.”
“What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.”
“What do you call an electrical and electronics engineer with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity? Unemployed!”
“What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.”
“What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters”
Source: Something Like Fate