W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What hope is there for a people whose women become fruitless?”
Source: Tono-Bungay
“What hope is there for freelancers like myself if the Empire is determined to vanquish every independent system?” he said. Glancing at Saw, Molo, and Yalli, he added: “All of us will end up Imperial employees, imprisoned, or dead.”
Saw clapped him hard on the back. “That’s the spirit, Has. But there’s more to it than that. To the Empire we’re nothing more than clots of dirt they’d kick from their boots. Even Salient is nothing more than a trial run. Not when the goal is subjugation on a galactic scale. And that’s where we come in, even if it’s just to rattle them some: to rebel against injustice.”
Source: Star Wars: Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel
“What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”
“What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?”
“What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”
“What Hope Means (The Sonnet)
What do you think hope means,
To sit and do nothing!
Such is no hope but cowardice,
Real hope gets you walking.
Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.
Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.
I repeat, hope is no excuse for inaction.
Real hope brings emancipation from submission.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?”
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina)”
Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice
“What house a hundred years old can possibly be without guilt or evil?”
Source: Irretrievable
“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?”
“What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.”
Source: Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation
“What human beings need most is to have a heart that corresponds to their heart, so that both parties can exchange their love and enthusiasm and become partners in pleasure and help each other in sorrow and grief.”
“What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.”
Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.”
Source: The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works
“What humanity is doing now in a single lifetime will impoverish our descendants for virtually all time to come.”
Source: In search of nature by Edward O. Wilson
“What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“What humanity wants most is crude sensation.
Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.”
Source: Full Dark House
“what humans describe as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.”
“What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”
“What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.”
Source: Cast in Silence
“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.”
“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”
“What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.”
Source: Critical Path
“What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”
Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!”
Source: Afterthoughts
“What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.”
“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“What hurts aren't usually words, it's the silent 'I don't care anymore' that brings down our worlds.”
“What hurts could most likely be the truth.”
“What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.”
“What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.”
“What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.”
“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”
Source: Lit
“What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.”
“What hurts the most is not a breakup, death, poverty, or pain, but having no one to share the pain with, having no one to listen to you !!!!”
“What hurts the most?
Rejection..”
Source: After We Collided
“What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.”
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”
“What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.”
“What hurts us is what heals us.”
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
Source: Selected poems
“What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?”
Source: Food and Drink
“What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.”
“What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.”
“What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!”
“What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.”
Source: My Career Goes Bung
“What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.”
“What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.”