W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.”
Source: Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter
“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams”
“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession
“What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.”
“What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.”
“What is appropriate in one setting may be entirely inappropriate in another. How you behave at a football game is different than how you behave at your sister’s wedding. How you interact with your closest friends will be different than how you engage with your boss.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.”
“What is art but the denial of life?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”
Source: Meditations from a Movable Chair
“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”
Source: Terrorscape
“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.”
“What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.”
“What is Art? Something one is good at and another one enjoys.”
“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.”
“What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.”
“What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.”
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.”
Source: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.”
“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”
Source: The Religion of Man
“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
“What is art? Prostitution.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.”
“What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.”
“What is Aryan Cult? It is the spontaneous revelation of self, whereas Non-Aryan Cult is mortification of Self.
The religion of the Vedic sages was the spontaneous revelation of life-power of a human body. Jainism is also a religion of self-mortification.
Dravidian religion was emotion and devotion and Hinduism is the combination of all these.”
“What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.”
Source: Architettura e Politica. Architecture and politics: italian/english text
“What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.”
“What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.”
“What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.”
“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.”
“What is at stake in the transgender conflict is not just an individual person’s ‘feeling’. Rather, this anti-woman and anti-feminist ideology is having a far-reaching impact on legislation normalizing that men can be women, often with no input from women who would be harmed by the legislation. Unfortunately, where transgender legislation is on the docket, public opinion lags behind public policy.”
Source: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
“What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.”
“What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.”
“What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.”
“What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.”
“What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule . This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love.”
“What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson
“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”
Source: At the Edge of History
“What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.”
“What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.”
“What is aught but as 'tis valued?”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“What is autumn? Here is a very simple definition: Autumn is a Queen, Queen of Beauty!”
“What is awful is at once appealing and repulsive, it fascinates and generates disgust, and those who succumb to the awful can only escape it at the price of ennui, of boredom.”
Source: Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst
“What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?”
“What is bad for the heart is good for art.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.”
“What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.”