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“What invigorated Maria Mitchell that evening, and what would drive her for the remaining decades of her life, was not the king’s medal, nor the luster of worldwide recognition, but the sheer thrill of discovery—the ecstasy of having personally chipped a small fragment of knowledge from the immense
monolith of the unknown, that elemental motive force of every sincere scientist.”
Source: Figuring
“What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.”
“What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.”
“What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.”
“What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”
Source: The Unchosen Life
“What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.”
“What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.”
Source: Divergent
“What is
there in being able
to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
self-defense;
in proving that one has had the experience
of carrying a stick?”
Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
“What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.”
“What is "martinizing" and why does it only take one hour?”
“What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”
Source: The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
“What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.”
“What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.”
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Source: Notre bonne Julie
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“What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?”
“What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.”
Source: The Journal of Albion Moonlight
“What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!”
“What is a barrier to one person to creativity is a springboard for another. And the thing that makes the difference from one person or another is how they deal with and are affected by their inner voice of blame and criticism, so-called the VOJ or Voice of Judgment.”
“What Is A Belief?”
“What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.”
“What is a book?
A piece of my heart;
In its words, my dreams unfold,
In every chapter, my longings speak,
The explosion of unmet desires,
As sunlight steals the heart
A Feast of agony and ecstasy,
all gifted to the world.”
“What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.”
“What is a brand? A brand is uniqueness you know, want and trust”
Source: Stand Out! Building Brilliant Brands for the World We Live In
“What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers”
“What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better”
“What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.”
“What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?”
“What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.”
“What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.”
“What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.”
“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
“What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.”
Source: Discourses
“What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”
Source: Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy
“What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.”
Source: Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional
“What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.”
Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe
“What is a church?Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.”
“What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.”
Source: Plays
“What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.”
“What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.”
“What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.”
“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”
Source: Beartown
“What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.”
“What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.”
“What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat!”
“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition