W Quotes
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“What else are mirrors meant for then
But so each knows himself from other men!’
Your mirrors show the husk and not the kernel;
The soul-revealing mirror is eternal:
This mirror for the soul is the saint’s face,
The one who is beyond all time and space—
‘Heart, seek a mirror of this type!’ I’d scream,
‘Reach for the ocean, and not a mere stream!”
Source: The Masnavi, Book Two
“What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?”
Source: The List of 7
“What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.”
“What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.”
Source: The Edible Woman
“What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.”
“What else can it predict?”
Now the other jocks encircled her like a bullseye.
“Any event with data,” Holly said and really felt the need to leave. This was a set-up.
Big Bob grinned. “Like when I’ll get a date?”
Holly’s smile slid across her face. “Low probability events are hard to forecast.”
“Huh?”
Josh punched his shoulder. “She means, you are not likely to get a date.”
Source: Segment of One
“What else can joy be, but the spreading joy?”
Source: The poetical works of Lord Byron
“What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?”
Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”
“What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”
Source: The Complete Works Of O. Henry
“What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
“What else can you tell me?” Dad stares at me. “What have you learned while you were awake?”
I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he’ll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn’t determine whether you get it or not, that “no” might not be enough, that life isn’t fair, that my parents can’t save me, that maybe no one can. “Nothing much,” I mutter.”
Source: Shades of Earth
“What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?”
Source: Forbidden
“What else could I be? If I were a mono-thinker, I probably wouldn’t be an insomniac. How is a poly-thinker supposed to fall asleep, and more importantly, stay asleep, when thoughts just won’t stop darting! darting! darting! through my head?”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“What else could I care about right now when he and I were this close again, when we could erase my mourning together?”
Source: Between Blood And Darkness
“What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.”
Source: In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
“What else could I give you
I already gave you my whole heart
It beat and beat inside me
but it is yours”
“What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.”
“What else did she tell you about—” Thom began, then cut off with a frown. “What ails you, Mat? You look about to sick up.”
What ailed him was his memory, and not the other men’s memories for once. Those had been stuffed into him to fill holes in his own memories, which they did and more, or so it seemed. He certainly remembered many more days than he had lived. But whole stretches of his own life were lost to him, and others were like moth-riddled blankets or shadowy and dim. He had only spotty memories of fleeing Shadar Logoth, and very vague recollections of escaping on Domon’s rivership, but one thing seen on that voyage stood out. A tower shining like burnished steel. Sick up? His stomach wanted to empty itself.
“I think I know where that tower is, Thom. Rather, Domon knows. But I can’t go with you. The Eelfinn will know I’m coming, maybe the Aelfinn, too. Burn me, they might already know about this letter, because I read it. They might know every word we’ve said. You can’t trust them. They’ll take advantage if they can, and if they know you’re coming, they’ll be planning to do just that. They’ll skin you and make harnesses for themselves from your hide.” His memories of them were all his own, but they were more than enough to support the judgment.”
Source: Knife of Dreams
“What else do I deserve?” One side of his lips tipped up. “Everything, baby, you deserve everything.”
Source: Frigid
“What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?”
Source: On Pilgrimage
“What else do we have to expose and investigate corruption and maintain informed citizenry? When all levels of government and justice system are abusing power, where can people go with claims of that abuse? Only the press.”
Source: Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
“What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”
“What else do you know? Do you have a lead? Rumors? A secret tunnel in the woods that leads to an underground bunker with extra-extraterrestrials and a library of government cover-up material?”
Source: Hijinks
“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?”
“What else does it sound like? I'm helping out of East Andoren's best interest, but if that helps those perfect angels back in North Andoren, then great. We've got the light of both moons at our side. All the better for us.”
Source: Sabre Black
“What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.”
“What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.”
“What else draws man to a woman than his desire to access her persona specifics; and once drawn, won’t she bare her veiled assets for her fancied man to dabble with her private accounts? But then, after a few of his jaunts to her favoured joint, what else would be left in her for her lover to explore and for her to offer? Thus, thereafter, how could she cater to his need for variety and what else she could conjure up to sustain her enticement? Oh, the poor thing, seeing his interest in her wane, won’t she turn more so eager to keep him in good humor? But then, the more she gives him; even more she satiates him, and its only time before she finds her paramour bypass her favours for lesser flavours.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“What else exhausts like sustained deception?”
Source: Peace Like a River
“What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?”
Source: The Honourable Schoolboy
“What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?”
Source: Forsaken Kingdom
“What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?”
Source: Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
“What else ignites the blaze of miracles but the flame of dance?”
“What else is belief but direction?”
Source: Moth Smoke
“What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.”
“What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?”
Source: Lund Studies in English
“What else is different now?' I asked, trailing him up the marble front steps.
He didn't stop this time, didn't even look over his shoulder to see me as he said. 'Everything.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.”
Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
“What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?”
Source: The Street Sweeper
“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?”
“What else is nature but God?”
“What else is soul but a listener?”
“What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.”
“What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“What else is there besides puran (input; influx; charge; cause) and galan (out put; discharge; effect)?”
“What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.”