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 music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.”
Source: Orsinian Tales
“What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?”
“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
“What good is praying in public if you as an individual do not follow The Teachings of GOD'S Prophets in The Holy Bible ? Repent !”
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?”
Source: The War of the Worlds
“What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?”
“What good is safety if you're dead inside?”
“What good is sitting all alone in your room?”
“What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.”
“What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.”
“What good is speed without the ability to brake?”
Source: Destiny of Shattered Dreams
“What good is strength if you have no sense?”
“What good is success if you're not willing to share it?”
“What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.”
“What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.”
“What good is the soul without the longing for light?”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.”
“What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.”
Source: Killosophy
“What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!”
“What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!”
“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“What good is war, Blood Shrike?" The sadness etched into his face feels ancient, the sorrow of a Soul Catcher instead of the friend I've known since childhood. "How many have died because if a king's greed or a commander's pride? How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“What good is war, Blood Shrike?" The sadness etched into his face feels ancient, the sorrow of a Soul Catcher instead of the friend I've known since childhood. "How many have died because of a king's greed or a commander's pride? How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.”
Source: That Frequent Visitor
“What good is your knowledge of five thousand books if it doesn't even help five people!”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?"
" .... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .... and I never promised you peace or happiness .... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!”
“What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.”
Source: Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel
“What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.”
Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”
“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition
“What good remains when Honour is ignored,
And Reason, noblest faculty in Nature,
Thrown like superfluous ballast overboard?
We are none of us so perfect as to grudge him
His private quirks; but this involves our future.
Hear what he says - see what he does - and judge him.”
Source: Crisis
“What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?”
Source: Under a Painted Sky
“What good shall I do this day?”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)”
“What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.”
Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“What good to me are academic walls, what good to me are church ceilings! Mountains are my classroom, sky, my blackboard - nature is my canon, cosmos is my kin.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?”
“What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“What good was escaping into one's imagination if the world's problems came along for the ride?”
Source: A Return of Devotion
“What good was living if a man didn’t have a family?”
Source: The Reluctant Lord
“What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)”
Source: Upon The Midnight Clear
“What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.”
Source: Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul
“What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which was probably just a made-up concept invented by humans to feel like something or someone was guiding them anyway. God, spirits, cookies, whatever. She was so sick of buying into the idea that there was actually meaning behind any of this. It was just her, blind and alone, making a mess of her life on her own, thank you very much.”
“What good were real feelings anyway?”
Source: About a Boy
“What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?”
Source: Columbine
“What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.”
“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”
“What good would it do for the Kates of the world to cry? They have learned that tears do not bring relief or change of circumstance. There is no one to wipe their tears, no one to assuage their grief.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter