W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?”
“What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.”
“What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.”
“What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.”
“What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.”
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”
“What I am has no bearing on who I become.”
Source: The Damned
“What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.”
“What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.”
Source: Magister Ludi
“What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.”
“What I am in the eyes of most people — a nonetity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life”
“What I am interested in is the present time”
“What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.”
“What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.”
“What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.”
“What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.”
“What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.”
“What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps”
“What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.”
“What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.”
“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”
“What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.”
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?”
“What I am is what the LORD GOD has made of me.”
“What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.”
“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
“What I am looking for is a certain grace.”
“What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.”
“What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.”
“What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.”
“What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.”
“What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.”
“What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.”
“What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes do not define me and nor does my nakedness. I define me.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.”
“What I am proposing here is that you consistently bet on inconsistency. What I am asking you to do is bet unfailingly on the failures of human reason, which is a sure bet indeed. It is a painful thing to admit that education, intellect and willpower are inadequate to make you the type of investor you would like to be, but it’s not as painful as losing money.”
Source: The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the secret to investing success
“What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.”
“What I am proposing is to start a new chapter in Europe. To begin this adventure anew, and differently, if you'd like. The institutions as such aren't particularly important to me - and I think most people feel the same.”
“What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.”
“What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.”
“What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.”
Source: A Dialogue on Love
“What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.”
Source: Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews
“What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.”
“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”
Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation