W Quotes
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“What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.”
“What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.”
“What is amazing but understandable is how you moved from one subject to another. This often occurs when one's argument is weak and unsubstantiated.”
“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.”
“what is amazing in nature is that the female, because of their role to protect their young and to protect their family or social group, are the ones with the keener sense of awareness. Yet this is the opposite with humans where the females are less aware of danger and less able to personally defend and protect themselves as well as their young. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”
“What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.”
“What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.”
“What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?”
“WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?”
“What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.”
“What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.”
“What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?”
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.”
“What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?”
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
“What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.”
“What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
Source: The Wind's Twelve Quarters
“What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant".”
“What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.”
“What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.”
“What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.”
“What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?”
Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“what is an author without an audience”
Source: Yellowface
“What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler”
“What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.”
“What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.”
“What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
“What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.”
Source: Star King
“What is an expert other than someone whose made enough mistakes to understand how something doesn’t work so that they finally have a decent idea of how it does?”
“What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.”
“What is an hour?'
'More to me than to him.'
'An hour is the same.”
Source: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
“What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.”
“What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.”
“what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?”
“What is an immortality?! To outlive oneself.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.”
“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.”
“What is an inventive step for patents?”
“What is an opinion of a man but a mere thought he thinks of someone or something based on a feeble speculation or half-hearted truth?
My fellow man, do not be swayed by what others think but concern your business with what God thinks & then ye shall succeed. Fret not because the possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to ensure success.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.”
“What is an unconditional state?”
Source: Waiting to Live
“What is and what is not create each other.”
“What is animal, what is human, can't be determined by appearance, it’s only determined by action.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“What is another name for a Thesaurus?”
“What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.”
“What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?”