W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What has been said does not simply belong to us.”
“What has been
taken from you,
it is this that
owns you, and
you, shell of all
joy, must walk
through this city
as beautiful as
the last summer
flowers.”
“What has been taught to you?
On the path of love what else other than love be taught?!
What books have you been referred to?
On the path of love, there isn't any book to read but your heart!
What you mean reading your heart?
Is to know whether your heart is in love or hate!
Then how is love taught and understood?
Love isn't something to be taught and understood but to be received and conceive.
What you mean recieve and conceive?
It is to receive from the glance of the perfect master to your eyes (recieve) and into your heart (conceive).
What happens when you conceive?
Love receive love, love conceive love, love becomes love.
What it is to become love?
Is to unite with the source of love.
What do you mean united was it separate before ?
No, it was not separate from me but I was.
Is the source, object, and subject different from one another?
That is something that needs not to be said but experienced within yourself.”
“what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.”
“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?”
“What has been the greatest obstacle to human progress? – Abrahamism. How can humanity ascend to the heavens? – by bringing the reign of terror of the God of Abraham to an end. The Terror God has had his day. It’s time for humanity to move on.”
Source: Jehovah: The First Nazi
“What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I asked, How many people here started as a forklift operator, a warehouse person, a roof loader, or a truck driver? We had 600 people and almost half of them stood up.”
“What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”
“What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.”
“What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.”
“What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is”
“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?”
“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?”
“What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.”
“What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.”
“What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.”
“What has changed is that people have stopped working together.”
“What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.”
“What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.”
“What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.”
“What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.”
“What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.”
“What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive.”
“What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.”
“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”
Source: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother
Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson
Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they
had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms
of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you
might uniquely serve.”
Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World
“What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.”
“What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on”
Source: Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]
“What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!”
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression which this very vulgar error gave birth to. When they mean to stigmatise a Man with want of courage they call him effeminate, and when they would praise a Woman for her courage they call her manly. But as these, and such like expressions, are merely arbitrary and but a fulsome compliment which the Men pass on themselves, they establish no truth.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“What has grown in deep darkness and water, has formed flesh and bone and lives among us.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.”
“What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.”
“What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.”
“What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.”
“What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.”
“What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.”
“What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.”
“What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.”
“What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached.”
“What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
“What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.”
“What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevention and treatment in a way that if you fast-forward 30 years form '88 to now, we can say without hyperbole that we have the tools, if implemented the way they could be implemented, to theoretically, essentially end the epidemic as we know it now.”
“What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.”
“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”
“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.”