W Quotes
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“What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.”
“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.”
Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence
“What I need is not outside,
but it’s not necessarily inside either;
it is the awareness itself
of what is happening
in both places.
What I need is what is.
That is my salvation. That is what I need.
I am saved with each moment that I am aware.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“What I need is not that which I find, for what I need is far bigger than my ability to find it. What I need is that which finds me. Hence, Christmas.”
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”
“What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.”
“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”
Source: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems
“What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.”
“What I need most of all is certainty.”
“What I need most of all is color, always, always.”
“What I need,” Mulan said quietly, “is someone who will stand by my side. Someone who will support me in my role.” She looked at him, willing her heart into her eyes. “Someone who loves me, and whom I love in return.”
As Shang gazed back at her, everything around them became blurred, muffled. Finally, she spoke the terrifying, hopeful words.
“I want you to marry me, Shang.”
In that moment, Mulan could hear nothing but her heart beating in her ears. For what seemed like an eternity, silence hung between them.
Shang let out a shaky breath. His expression wasn’t a clear yes, and Mulan’s soul froze. “Mulan,” he said. “Heavens know I want nothing more, but I worry I’ll be holding you back.”
Relief flooded through her at his words. She took his hands. “Shang, we’ve led China to victory now, not once but twice. You don't hold me back. Your love makes me stronger.”
Source: Feather and Flame
“What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.”
“What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.”
“What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.”
“What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.”
“What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.”
“What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases
“What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.”
Source: Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
“What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.”
“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time.”
Source: Frigid
“What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.”
“What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?”
“What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.”
“What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.”
“What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.”
“What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.”
“What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.”
“What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.”
“What I notice is that most of us can intellectualise what we see on social media platforms – we know that these images and narratives that are presented aren’t real, we can talk about it and rationalise it – but on an emotional level, it’s still pushing buttons. If those images or narratives tap into what we aspire to, but what we don’t have, then it becomes very powerful.”
“What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere.”
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.”
Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.”
“What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.”
“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.”
“What I object to is tricking the reader and blurring the lines so that unsuspecting readers, thinking that they are getting something that is assigned and edited by the editorial side, are getting something quite different. They are getting an advertisement.”
“What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.”
“What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.”
“What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.”
“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
“What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.”
“What I once wanted and what I got—
when my soul turned in your direction.
Alas, I had been living in such a limited way.”
“What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.”
“What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.”