W Quotes
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“What I mean is, she doesn't need to collect things for the sake of collecting them. She never has. She only wears gowns that make her feel beautiful, and she only spends time with people whose company she likes. She wants to please herself, not others. It doesn't matter to her if the things she likes are the ones other people think are the best.”
Source: It Takes Two to Tangle
“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
“What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.”
“What I mean is that modern women like you are all, to a greater or lesser extend, hard...It's the yearning. Plainly and simply, it's the yearning."
Yearning? For what? {Miss Prim]
The yearning you all display to prove your worth, to show that you know this and that, to ensure that you can have it all. The yearning to succeed and, even more, the yearning not to fail; the yearning not to be seen as inferior, but instead even as superior, simply for being exactly what you believe you are, or rather what you've been made to believe you are. The inexplicable yearning for the world to give you credit simply for being women. {Lulu Thiberville]”
Source: The Awakening of Miss Prim
“What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.”
“What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.”
“What I mean is, you should not have to have a business in a Jewish neighborhood to be interested in Jewish problems, or own a spaghetti stand to be interested in Italians, or a bar to care about the Irish. In a democracy, everybody's problems are related, and it's up to all of us to help solve them."
"If I did not have a business reason to be interested in their business," said Simple, "then what business would I have being interested in their business?"
"Just a human reason," I said. "It's all human business."
"Maybe that is why they don't join the N.A.A.C.P.," said Simple. "Because they do not think a Negro is human.”
Source: The Return of Simple
“What I mean is, I don't know what I mean.”
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around.”
“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all”
“What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory.”
Source: Lincoln in the Bardo
“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
Source: Station Eleven: A novel
“What I mean to tell you is that I think you're very brave for standing up to your family. It takes incredible courage to grow up to be someone different than who our parents want us to be.”
Source: The Last Enemy: The Howling Nights
“what i mean when i say to you… burn out the stars with me …that’s my way of asking for your forevers.”
“What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.”
“What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.”
“What I meant was that my talent was hidden somewhere in her, that everything came to me thought her, except her spirit.”
“What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures.”
“What I meant when I say that the media are bots, I don't want anybody misunderstand this. I'm watching CNN and one of their infobabes is doing this report on Al Franken questioning [Jeff] Sessions during the confirmation hearings. I'm convinced - and they played an edited version of it. It was edited by somebody to make it look like it was something other than what it was, and I'm convinced this infobabe hasn't the slightest clue.”
“What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.”
“What I might have considered good, good doesn't mean every day is going to be perfect, you're not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.”
“What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.”
“What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.”
“What I Miss most About My Childhood Days?
~Family Time~
Back in the day, we were poor and didn't know it, we were also content.
Our home was filled with Love.
I really miss those days in Barbados.”
“What I miss most from home is shopping. It sounds a bit silly, I know. If ever I couldn’t grasp that something was happening, like when I got the job here and departure time was coming up, I’d go out and buy stuff in preparation for it, and in that way I understood it was for real. I understood impending events through shopping. I understood the circumstances through the items that characterized them. Shopping had a kind of numbing effect on me, and now that it’s no longer something I do, I’ve started having thoughts and feelings that have turned out to be sad.”
Source: The Employees
“what i miss most
is certainly the
words and the quiet”
Source: Titans
“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”
“What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.”
“What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.”
“What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do you hate it...
It's better to be in happy and...
- After all I wanted to show the taste of the real world, a injury in father's childhood, then injury when his wife dies...”
Source: It's not a happy
“What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.”
“What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.”
“What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.”
“What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.”
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Source: Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life - longer than many, better than most. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-two years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I do to deserve birth? It was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hour. And yet I have had thirty-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept death now. As of this moment I give up my "right" to live.”
Source: Notes to Myself
“What I must know, only the Master teaches!”
“what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?”
Source: The Christian faith in the modern world
“What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis" -- The Calorie Man”
Source: Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
“What I need in a relationship is that which compliments my self-awareness with such principles; respect, loyalty, integrity and support”
“What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.”
“What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.”
“What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.”