W Quotes
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“What is a sensitive person?” said the Cracker to the Roman Candle.
“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes,” answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter.”
Source: Oscar Wilde Stories for Children
“What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.”
“What is a sigh? That would be another good subject for a field study. Is it just a long, deep, audible exhalation of breath? Rose's sigh was intense but not subdued. It was frustrated but not yet sad. A sigh resets the respiratory system so it was possible that my mother had been holding her breath, which suggests she was more nervous than she appeared to be. A sigh is an emotional response to being set a difficult task.”
Source: Hot Milk
“What is a smile but proof that we have forgotten truth.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”
“What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.”
“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”
Source: America
“What is a soul if not an extension of the heart?”
Source: The Will and the Wilds
“What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.”
“What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?”
Source: Princess Ben
“What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.”
Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader
“What is a student supposed to do? When we try to prevent a situation, we are told to be quiet and sit down. The teachers never listen, yet they always say, tell the teacher. Why? When teachers don’t listen, they do not care, and they just do not understand.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
“What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.”
“What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.”
“What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!”
“What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.”
“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.”
Source: Totem and Taboo
“What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.”
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.”
“What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.”
Source: Eclipse
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“What is a village without village idiots ?”
Source: Mason & Dixon
“What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?”
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
Source: The Wanderess
“What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.”
“What is a warchild, you ask? Some say they are human, other ‘witnesses’ call them horrendous demons. That they wield great power is undeniable. They master the very thing that makes us who we are: emotion. Love, hatred, terror, anguish, humour, sadness, joy . . . all these and a hundred more, a thousand. Imagine a thing, a creature that could take them from you, leaving you as an empty husk, able to think, but having no will to act. No will to resist.
“That, my emperor, is a warchild.”
Source: A Canticle of Two Souls
“What is a warrior anyway?' Black breathed. 'Being brave doesn’t make you good. I suppose there are warriors for both dark and light.”
Source: A Long Lost Fantasy
“What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.”
“What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.”
“WHAT IS A WEDDING BAND?”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]”
“What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.”
“What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.”
“What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?”
“What is a whore?"
Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with."
Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
Source: Jerusalem: A Simplified Version
“What is a wish but a reality that’s getting tired of being a wish.”
“What is a woman?
Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter,
Her husband's wife, her children's mother”
Source: Voices
“What is a woman's greatest virtue?
Patience.”
Source: Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba
“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.
They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.
I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?”
“What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?”
“What is a “woman”? Who gets to be one? Who gets to decide who “counts”? In our quest for equality, should feminists strive for the right to embody even the toxic aspects of masculinity, or should we focus on dismantling it before reaching for equality at all? Why should women who have traditionally been underserved or exploited by mainstream feminism (women of colour, trans women, sex workers) have that label foisted upon them? What do we do with the uncomfortable truth that many women’s rights pioneers were explicitly, actively racist? How do we honour their contributions without erasing the oppression of women of colour that still taints feminism today? How do we reconcile the tension between celebrating womanhood and rejecting gender essentialism? How do we reconcile the tension between fighting oppressive beauty standards and wanting to express ourselves through makeup and clothes?”
“What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.”
Source: Tehanu: The Fourth Book of Earthsea
“What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.”
“What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.”
Source: Selected essays
“What is a word? It is a sound vibration! And what is the intelligence behind this vibration that 'thinks' the Word? The answer is MIND (or what some call consciousness, intention or god).”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!