W Quotes
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“What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.”
Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
Source: A Little Life
“What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.”
“What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.”
Source: A Death in Spring: 1968
“What he learned from his favorite teacher was not obedience to authority but delight in the exercise of his mind.”
Source: Jefferson the Virginian
“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)”
“What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling of intoxication. All this power, how easy it was to make a man happy. And suddenly at the point of orgasm, I’d dissolve into tears for no apparent reason. "Too much happiness," was all I could tell him when he showed concern at my sobs. For entire days, I couldn’t bear for him to touch me. And then the infernal cycle would begin again.”
Source: Le Consentement
“What he [Max Plowman] has done is to adopt the Christian maxim, God is Love, to reverse it, quite arbitrarily, into the pagan maxim, Love is God; and then to argue that, because love is an emotion, and consequently to intellectual formula can exhaust its content, there is not need to argue about the existence of God at all. But what has Mr Plowman really proved? Nothing more than that the emotion of love, whether it be love of God or love of a woman or love of a five-pound note, is something unanalysable in terms of atoms and space-time. If he is prepared to deify this instinct, he is welcome to do so, but it is hard to feel the cause of any theology is benefited by the process.”
Source: Caliban in Grub Street 1930 [Leather Bound]
“What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do".
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“What he must have suffered, in his lovely English privacy.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism.
- Rufus, Dogma”
Source: Dogma
“What he really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
Source: Signs and Symbols
“What He revealed to me transcended everything I thought the past several years of my life was about. What He revealed to me was how He used an unwise decision I made years before this night to do something great! He showed me the good results of Him being the Great Initiator. For you to get a better sense of how I got to this point, it's a must that I start at the chapter in my life that will give you a better appreciation of God's goodness. Welcome to my memoir, It Is Finished.”
“What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it is all around him. Every step’s an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely.”
Source: Until Christ Returns: Living Faithfully Today While We Wait for Our Glorious Tomorrow
“What he said is truth .Indian Godi media spread lot of fake news about Bangladesh since Haseena lost power. Authentic sources from Bangladesh says around 300 people killed in Bangladesh violence and in that only 5 are Hindus. Majority killed are Muslims.”
“What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.”
“What he says next is going to make all the difference.
"Working or Pa," he says.
"Liar," I say, and walk away.”
Source: Tell Me When You Feel Something
“What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.”
“what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
“What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going. (You see how grovelling, how unspiritual, how irredeemably vulgar He is!) This attitude, especially during sermons, creates the condition (most hostile to our whole policy) in which platitudes can become really audible to a human soul. There is hardly any sermon, or any book, which may not be dangerous to us if it is received in this temper.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“What He was commanding them was to symbolically take His life, His spirit, into themselves and make Him part of who they were.”
Source: Kiss of Death
“What he was referring to is the fact that there are two worlds: the true glory of Sophia and the false world of the Demiurge. The false world of the Demiurge seems the same as the world of Sophia, except that it is, to use a metaphor, colorless. The world of the Demiurge is the world as it seems to people obsessed with material possessions, attracted by the desire to control the realm of the Goddess Sophia, people who prefer the artificial to the authentic, people in the clutches of delusional poisonous drugs, people with addictions to other people and alcohol, as well as food, spending, pornography, gambling, angry people who are fixated with politics and financial issues; people who are full of illusory worries about possible future events rather than living in the authentic present now, people who see the world through the eyes of the media and people who are completely isolated from themselves emotionally. These people never 'see' and never 'hear' the real world around and within them. They live in the false duplicate reality of the Earth manufactured by Yaldabaoth. This facsimile is an illusory world.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.”
“What he was thinking was that he wished the coffin were less conspicuous; he knew it was white because of the purity of the child inside, but are we really that pure when we arrive in this world?”
“What he was trying to teach me is that I have a body. And a mind. And a heart.”
Source: ちはやふる 12 [Chihayafuru 12]
“What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.”
“What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.”
Source: The English Patient
“What he writes it will change the world! it's written on the stars .”
“What he writes! the tears of writer, the tears of reader. the breathings of beautiful soul ..”
“What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.”
“What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.”
“What heals is always greater than what kills.”
“What heals the heart?
Maybe, another heart,
maybe not!”
“What health is to the body; honesty is to the soul.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and mattersthe present moment.”
“What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
Source: Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)
“What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.”
“What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.”
“What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.”
Source: Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
“What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet