W Quotes
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“What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
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"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.”
Source: Britt-Marie Was Here
“What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?”
“What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.”
“What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.”
“What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.”
“What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?”
“What does it mean, being a woman?”
“What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?”
“What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?”
Source: Folly
“What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?”
“What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?”
“What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.”
“What does it really look like?
Isn't it obvious?
Not especially...
You. It looks like you.”
Source: Happy Again
“What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.”
“What does it really take to make a difference in the world? In a word, focus. Relentless focus.”
“What does it remember? Itself, death as memory. An immense
memory in which one dies.
First to forget. To remember only where one remembers nothing.
To forget: to remember everything as though by way of forgetting. There is
a profoundly forgotten point from which every memory radiates. Everything is exalted in memory from something which is forgotten, an infinitesimal detail, a minuscule fissure into which it passes in its entirety.”
Source: The Last Man
“What does it remember like?”
“What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?”
“What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?”
“What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?”
“What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex...”
“What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?”
“What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?”
“What does it say?'
'Utter nonsense,' Amren spat, scowling at the Book. 'It just likes to hear itself talk. Like most of the people cramping up my apartment.'
Cassian smirked. 'Did someone forget to feed Amren again?'
She pointed a warning finger at him without so much as looking up. 'Is there a reason, Rhysand, why you dragged your yapping pack into my home?”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“What does it say, 'I beat Meryl.'”
“What does it say? Does he love you madly?”
Source: Princess of the Midnight Ball
“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.”
“What does it take for Republicans to take off the flag pin and say, 'I am just too embarrassed to be on this team'?”
“What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.”
“What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.”
“What does it take to become a saint? Will it.”
“What does it take to change the essence of a man?”
“What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?”
“What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.”
“What does it take to love? I pondered.
It didn't require money and it didn't require name or fame. It required just a thought.”
Source: Where One Is Not A Number
“What does it take to turn the hero into a villain?”
Source: Aurelia And The Enemies Of Pity
“What does it take to use the life we already have in order to make us wiser rather than more stuck? What is the source of wisdom at a personal, individual level? To the degree that I've understood the teachings, the answer to these questions seems to have to do with bringing everything that we encounter to the path. Everything naturally has a ground, path and fruition. This is like saying that everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. But it is also said that the path itself is both the ground and the fruition. So, one sometimes reads, the path is the goal. This path has one very distinct characteristic, it is not prefabricated, it doesn't already exist. The path that we're talking about is the moment by moment evolution of our experience. The moment by moment evolution of the world of phenomena. The moment by moment evolution of our thoughts and our emotions. The path is not Route 66 destination Los Angeles. It's not as if we can take out a map and figure out that this year we might make it to Gallup, New Mexico and maybe by 2001 we'll be in LA. The path is uncharted. It comes into existence moment by moment and at the same time drops away behind us. It's like riding in a train sitting backwards. We can't see where we're headed, only where we've been. This is a very encouraging teaching because it says the source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today. The source of wisdom is whatever is happening to us right at this very instant. We're always in some kind of mood. It might be sadness, it might be anger, it might be not much of anything, just a kind of blur. It might be humor or contentment. In any case, whatever it is, that's the path. When something hurts in life, we don't usually think of it as our path or as the source of wisdom. In fact we think that the reason we're on the path is to get rid of this painful feeling. When I get to LA I won't feel this way anymore. At that level of wanting to get rid of our feeling, we naively cultivate a subtle aggression against ourselves. However the fact is that anyone who has used the moments and days and years of his or her life to become wiser, kinder, and more at home in the world has learned from what has happened right now. We can aspire to be kind right in the moment, to relax and open our heart and mind to what is in front of us right in the moment. Now is the time. If there is any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now. Not at some future time. Now is the time. Now is the only time.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart, The Places That Scare You, Start Where You Are, 10% Happier 4 Books Collection Set
“What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?”
“What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.”
Source: Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality
“What does Jinmudra (Tirthankar God’s sitting posture) say? The lotus position of Vitrag Lords, one hand and foot placed over the other, preaches, “Oh, humans! Understand this if you have the wisdom. You have already brought with you the food, drink and all things you need; therefore, let go of the awareness that ‘I am the doer’ and make effort to attain Moksha (ultimate liberation)!”
“What does Justin Bieber have that I don't?!”
“What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!”
“What does kiciciyapi mitawa mean?" He kept his head on her breasts. "What?" "You called me kicicyapi mitawa. It sounded so beautiful. It wasn't Japanese. What was it?" "It's the voice of the Lakota. It would sound silly in English." He cupped her breast, his fingers moving lightly over her skin. His breath warm on her heart. "I want to know. It didn't sound silly when you said it. It sounded...beautiful. It made me feel beautiful. And loved." He kissed her breast. "I called you my heart. And you are.”
“What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your bloodstream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.”
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”
“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”
“What does life give me in the end but sorrow?
What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?
I've only seen one true companion - pain,
And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.”
Source: The Nightingales are Drunk
“What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.”
“What does living do to any of us?”
Source: Duende