W Quotes
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“What feels better than being sure of yourself? What feels better than knowing yourself? What feels better than at last knowing how to look after your physical and mental and spiritual health? For me, nothing feels better.”
Source: If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
“What feels good is often the wrong thing to do.”
“What feels like a wilderness might be the very place your soul starts to breathe.”
Source: Take a Step with Him - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings
“What feels like breaking may be the beginning of becoming something new.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What feels like falling might just be the beginning of remembering how to land differently”
“what feels like work to you is playing for others”
“What feels polite in one language can sound evasive in another - misunderstanding is often our first shared culture.”
Source: The South Korean Diplomat's Wife: Stories of Silk Dresses, Scandals, and Secrets
“What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s neck, dampening his collar and plastering the linen between his shoulders.
Duff didn’t answer immediately. A look of speculation flickered in his small, deep-set eyes.
“Don’t think about it, Duff,” Roger said, softly, but with great assurance. “I can reach ye from here with an oar, ken?”
“Aye?” Duff glanced thoughtfully from Jamie, to Roger, and then to me. “Aye, reckon ye might. But allowin’ for the sake for argyment as how you can swim, MacKenzie—and even that Mr. Fraser might keep afloat—I dinna think that’s true of the lady, is it? Skirts and petticoats . . .” He shook his head, pursing thin lips in speculation as he looked at me. “Go to the bottom like a stone, she would.”
Peter shifted ever so slightly, bringing his feet under him.
“Claire?” Jamie said. I saw his fingers curl tight round the oars, and heard the note of strain in his voice. I sighed and drew the pistol out from under the coat across my lap.
“Right,” I said. “Which one shall I shoot?”
Source: The Fiery Cross
“What felt like love for the boy also felt a lot like frustration, and her happiness about being his girlfriend was already tinged with bitterness. Was it worth riding the twists and turns of their emotional rollercoaster, especially when she had no idea where it was really going?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“What felt like salvation
was only a better cage.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?”
“What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.”
“What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.”
“What feminists refer to as microaggressions, the rest of us sane adults call life....The concept of microaggressions encourages women to think that every single thing in the world is, or should be, about them. It encourages breathless levels of narcissism, solipsism and just plain delusion....Feminism encourages women to believe that they have the same reasoning and coping abilities as toddlers. No thanks.”
“What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!”
“What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.”
“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“What few relationships I'd had led me to figure out there wasn't anything wrong with my libido; it just had a more restrictive admissions policy than what seemed like the other ninety-eight percent of the population”
Source: Dedicated
“What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.”
“What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?”
“What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.”
“What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.”
“What fills my imagination blinds me to all that surrounds me-and that disgusts me.”
“What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.”
“What fills your mind shapes your life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What filters are impeding your growth?”
“What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.”
“What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.”
Source: Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
“What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.”
“What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.”
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“What firefighters, and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do, basically these people say "I'm going to protect all these strangers."”
“What fires have you kindled in the hearts of others because of the inferno in yours?”
Source: Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership
“What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.”
“What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.”
“What first gave rise to the hypothesis [of Yahweh's Midianite origin] in the first place was a historical-critical interpretation of those biblical texts which narrate how Moses, son of Levitical parents (Exod. 2.1-2), married a Midianite woman, and lived long enough in Midian to have two sons with her (Exod. 2.11-22).
During this time he was in service with his father-in-law, a priest (perhaps the priest) of Midian, named both Reuel (Exod. 2.18) and Jethro (Exod. 2.1; 4.18).
At a sacred spot, a 'mountain of God', situated beyond the normal pasturage of the Midianites but frequented by Midianites and no doubt other tribes, Moses received a revelation from a deity previously known to him only notionally if at all (Exod. 3.13), presumably a deity worshipped by Midianites, whose named was revealed to be Yahweh.
(pp. 133-134)
(from 'The Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis Revisited and the Origins of Judah', JSOT 33.2 (2008): 131-153)”
“What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."”
“What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.”
“What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?”
“What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.”
“What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?”
“What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.”
“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”
“What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.”
“What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.”
Source: A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel
“What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.”
“What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.”
“What followed her stayed just out of sight in the woods and deep grasses. It was quiet. She was not sure what it waited for; it ought to have eaten her before she had walked so far with nothing but grubs for dinner. Her arms looked narrow, and even her hurt wrist looked thin. She thought, At my right hand Raím follows me in the mountain. He is a ghost; I am becoming a ghost. When I have walked to the end of the mountain he will be there, and I shall lie down against his shoulder, and stop walking, and be safe.”
Source: Roadsouls