W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What good is a reputation not put to good use.”
“What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?”
Source: The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
“What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.”
“What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?”
“What good is a suit of armor if I'm falling from such a great height?”
Source: Human Acts
“What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?”
Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
“What good is air when my soul is suffocating?”
“What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?”
“What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.”
Source: Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork
“What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!”
Source: Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings
“What good is all this love in her heart, with no one to share it with!”
“What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“What good is an “I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?
What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?
What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.”
“What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?”
Source: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men
“What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?”
“What good is ape tradition and validation, when time is my home, integration, my reality!”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“What good is dating a cop if I can’t use his get-out-of-jail-free card now and then?”
Source: Wolf Unleashed
“What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.”
“What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“What good is fantasy with no chance of reality?”
Source: The Massage Book 2: When Fantasy Becomes Reality: An Erotic Threesome Tale
“what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?”
Source: Saga #11
“What good is globalization when you lose your uniqueness in the process of it all? ! At the end of the day, you will become like a drop of water in the ocean.”
“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?”
“What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?”
Source: Passenger
“What good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines in the human heart?”
Source: Raven Stratagem
“What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?”
“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?”
“What good is it Habiba, to deny the truth? Your friendship woke something in me all those centuries ago, some dormant humanity that had lingered through the years, and after you died, it recoiled and hid again.
But Aladdin has woken it once more. With his sun-bright smile and his laughing eyes and his way of asking the hardest kind of questions. After you, I swore to never love again.
But I love him.
And so I must let him go.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“What good is it if a guy can sing real good but he sits on his ass and doesn't make anybody feel anything? I can connect with an audience every time I play. When I sing, they listen.”
“What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.”
“What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?”
“What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?”
“What good is it to be a teenager
if no one will listen to anything you say?”
“What good is it to be sad after identifying the problem? You can only be sad when you are still confused, otherwise your sadness is just a matter of choice.”
“What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.”
Source: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
“What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.”
“What good is it to live a life that brings pains?”
“What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane?”
“What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.”
“What good is it to perform anyway? The audience sits there like logs, they cough and sneeze, they don’t dress up anymore. Do you know what it’s like playing Brahms for people wearing blue jeans and T-shirts?”
Source: Twisted: The Collected Short Stories
“What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?”
“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”
Source: White Noise
“What good is life when golden love is gone?
Frankly, I would rather be dead than ignore
a girl's warm surrender, her soft arms in bed
at night, the lovely flower of youth that all women
and men desire!
When old age comes
a man feels feeble and ugly and crawls under
a crushing sorrow.
He loses the simple joy
of looking at the sun.
Children despise him.
He is repulsive to young women—in this sad
blind alley which God has made of old age.”
“What good is love if you never ask anything of it?”
“What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?”
Source: Daja's Book
“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”
“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”