W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What good are friends if they cant do you any good?”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?”
“What good are images if people understand them?”
“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”
“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?”
“What good are our principles if we only stick to them when it's easy?”
“What good are the pretty clothes?
when your soul is dirty”
“What good are those wings if you can't use them to fly?”
Source: Malia the Merfairy and The Lucky Rainbow Cake
“What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?”
“What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!”
“What good are wings without the courage to fly?”
Source: Love Her Wild
“What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies”
Source: Ham On Rye
“What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.”
Source: Euripides
“What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?”
“What good Christians don't realize is that sexual sin is not recreational sex gone overboard. Sexual sin is predatory. It won't be 'healed' by redeeming the context or the genders. Sexual sin must simply be killed. What is left of your sexuality after this annihilation is up to God. But healing, to the sexual sinner, is death: nothing more and nothing less.”
Source: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
“What good contrast do you want to make in the world? Do you want to be generous in a world that withholds? Kind in a world that makes fun? Deep in a world that’s shallow? All about relationships in a world that’s all about advancement? Start looking for ways to spend your precious time on activities that educate, expand, and encourage you—things that give you life instead of death. Make little choices today to turn up the contrast.”
Source: Live
“What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.”
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
Source: Firefly Lane
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?”
Source: Economics
“What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?”
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”
“What good does it do one to pile up wealth
if no good or honor issues from it?
Assets are worth much less than manure:
at least dung enriches the soil,
but the wealth that is locked away
is a disgrace to the man who hoards it.”
Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
“What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.”
“What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.”
“What good does it do to be well versed in investment opportunities when one has little or no money to invest?”
“What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.”
Source: Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully
“What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.”
“What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?”
“What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?”
“What good does it do you to love?”
Source: Summer Ruins
“What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?”
“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”
“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
“What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?”
“What good in being a solitary, secret drinker?
We're all drunkards together - let's leave it at that.”
Source: Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master
“What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?”
“What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?”
“What good is a body if I can't have you?”
Source: Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo
“What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?”
“What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?”
“What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?”
“What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.”
“What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him?”
“What good is a general with no war?”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those around her, and thus I have changed the world?”
Source: Royal Assassin
“What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool”
Source: Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy
“What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?”
Source: Divergent Trilogy