W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What!" exclaimed the Ghost, "would you so soon put out, with wordly hands, the light I give? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
“What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?”
“What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!”
“What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?”
“What existed between us is not enough. I still haven't given you everything, you may come looking for me one day or I might miss you.”
“What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.”
Source: The Life History of a Star
“What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.”
“What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.”
“What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.”
“What exists today is not a community, but merely a herd. People gather because they are afraid of each other, and each seeks refuge among their own kind. A herd of bosses, a herd of workers, a herd of intellectuals. And why are they afraid? They are only afraid when they are not at peace with themselves”
Source: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“What exists, is possible.”
“What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
“What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.”
“What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.”
Source: The Humanity of God
“What extended intelligence is NOT is a mindless cheerleader who says, "Oh, that is a good idea, carry on! You can do it!" Often the new data points suggest new avenues of exploration or thought or research. Work with Ei enough, and the logic of it begins to rub off on you.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“What extreme poverty really means is that no matter how hard you work, you’re trapped. You can’t get out. Your efforts barely matter. You’ve been left behind by those who could life you up.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
“What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.”
“What facilitates thought impoverishes imagination.”
“What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?”
“What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?”
Source: The Good Life
“What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?”
“What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!”
“What falls away is always. And is near.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.”
“What family are you from, bright one?"
"Sir, I don't know. My mother says she bore me in her youth ands doesn't know my ancestry. She says that since my name is Satyakama and hers is Jabala I should call myself Satyakama Jabala."
"None but a true brahmin could have said that. Fetch the firewood my boy, I will initiate you. You have not flinched from the truth”
“What family doesn't have its ups and downs?”
“What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.”
“What farm girl dolled up in a farm dress
captivates your wits
not knowing how to pull her rags down to her ankles?”
“What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.”
“What fascinated me most were her eyes... with a single glance, she could convey the most intimate message. She had beautiful lips but almost nothing needed to be said with those eyes. Those eyes pierced mine. There are many blue eyes in the world, but her blue eyes meant heaven to me in a way that blue had never meant before.”
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.”
“What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!”
“What fate?”
The three were on their feet atop the pedestals, and he could not tell which shrieked which answer.
“To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!”
“To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!”
“To give up half the light of the world to save the world!”
Together they howled like steam escaping under pressure. “Go to Rhuidean, son of battles! Go to Rhuidean, trickster! Go, gambler! Go!”
Source: The Shadow Rising
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”
“What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!”
“What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.”
“What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].”
“What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”
Source: Complete Essays
“What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?”
Source: The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
“What feeds a fighters soul is victory.”
“What feeds me destroys me.”
“What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.”
“What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.”
Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...
“What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.”
“What feelings are coming up for you?
I can't think of anything to say. Should I literally do what the question asks, stick two fingers down my throat and vomit up the strange, dark monster that has made its home inside of me? We could interrogate this creature instead.”
Source: Red Ink
“What feels best is how I no longer hurt.”