W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”
“What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?”
“What good's a captive without her captor?”
“What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.”
Source: The Middle of Somewhere
“What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.”
“What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.”
Source: Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
“What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.”
“What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.”
“What got you here won't get you there.”
Source: Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
“What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
[Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]”
“What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.”
Source: Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid
“What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.”
Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)
“What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.”
“What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.”
“What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?”
“What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.”
“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?”
“What great changes have not been ambitious?”
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.”
“What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.”
“What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.”
“What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.”
“What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.”
“What great human forces meet and come to grips with each other between every sunrise and sunset!”
“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”
Source: The Myths We Live By
“What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.”
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
“What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?”
“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?”
“What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
“What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?”
Source: Odyssey, Homer
“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”
“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”
Source: American Wife
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]”
“What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?”
“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”
Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker
“What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?”
Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
Source: Electra
“What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?”
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
Source: Adam Bede
“What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”
Source: The Green Knight
“What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?”
“What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.”