W Quotes
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“What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness”
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.”
“What is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton done to this country? That the most basic responsibility of an administration is to protect the safety and security of the American people.”
“What is basic? First and foremost, it is the CUT.
Many people think that we are talking about color and picture things in black and white or maybe in beige and blue. However, the basics don’t mean a particular color; they mean the cut and the ability of every thing to work with each other thing. They can be of any color at all!”
Source: Let’s Shop in Our Own Closet
“What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.”
Source: On Guerrilla Warfare
“What is Bayview best known for? Revenge.”
Source: One of Us Is Back
“What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.”
“What is beautiful?
Everything that has been loved by someone,That is beautiful.”
“What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.”
“what is
beautiful in me
and what is tender
in me
it is always.
no matter how
hard you tried to make
me feel hard to love
there are
all these beautiful
and tender things in me…
always.”
“What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
“What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.”
“What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.”
“What is beautiful is seized," my mother said a final time, speaking of my father, whom she said had been destroyed by too many women, a heart picked over, scratched at, taken, lost. "It came to me in bulky bandages, seeming much larger, much more than it really was.”
Source: Self-help
“What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”
“What is beauty?
Does it not lie in the depth of thinking?
One, who carefully observes the dust
Thus sees the shine in it.”
Source: what RU raising? ME, a TREE of POETRY.
“What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.”
Source: The Caves of Steel
“What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.”
Source: Firelight
“What is beauty? Why is this world obsessed with beauty? It is a pathetic way of measuring your worth in the eyes of another.
How can one person or the majority decide who is beautiful and who is not? Why are people all over the world being driven to adopt standards of beauty? Why do we have beauty pageants? The world is making people want to "look beautiful" but not "be beautiful."
The world is making the new generation self- conscious about external looks. The majority of people are becoming superficial. There is no depth in people.
True beauty is not in how we look. It is in how we love, care, and share.”
“What is beauty? Why is this world obsessed with beauty? It is a pathetic way of measuring your worth in the eyes of another.
How can one person or the majority decide who is beautiful and who is not? Why are people all over the world being driven to adopt standards of beauty? Why do we have beauty pageants? The world is making people want to "look beautiful" but not "be beautiful."
The world is making the new generation self- conscious about external looks. The new generation is becoming superficial. There is no depth in people.
True beauty is not in how we look. It is in how we love, care, and share.”
“What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?”
“What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?”
“What is beauty? It's what you love.”
“What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.”
“What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.”
Source: The Light of Other Days
“What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.”
“What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you”
“What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.”
“What is being a Scot like?" Ellice heard her mother ask.
'Oh, no.'
"A certain independence of spirit,"she answered before the men could. Or before the girl serving the venison could hear, take notes about Enid's snide remarks, and carry them to Brianag.
"An ability to carry on despite circumstances," she continued. "Perhaps a belief in otherworldly phenomena."
"Do you think we all believe in ghosts?" Gadsden asked.
She glanced at him. Now was not the time to recall the feeling of her breasts pressing against his chest, of his fingers on her skin, his lips trailing kisses along her throat.
Or her earlier image of him unveiling her, inch by inch.
Her cheeks warmed.
"Do you believe in ghosts?" she asked him.
"Not the incorporeal ones," he said. "Only those of memory and mind."
"Are you a haunted man?"
He didn't answer her, merely sat there, his gaze steady on her. To her surprise neither her mother nor Macrath said a word. Or perhaps they did and she didn't hear anything.
She was caught by his gray eyes, snared and netted until she could almost imagine she was at his feet, head bowed, swearing allegiance to him.
He'd raise her up with both hands on her arms until she stood before him, clad only in her gauzy tunic. A slave brought to the man who declared himself her master.”
Source: The Virgin of Clan Sinclair
“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.”
“What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.”
“What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.”
“What is being mediocre?
Is it bad? Or, is it good?
Is it birthed? Or, is it inherited?
Is it a disease? Or, is it blessing?
Is it curable? Or, is it Incurable?
Is it your fault? Or, is it someone else’s?
Is mediocrity human? Or, is it alien?
Is mediocrity worthy? Or, is it worthless?
Is mediocrity everything? Or, is it nothing?
What is being mediocre?”
“What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.”
“What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.”
“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
Source: The Deep
“What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.”
“What is best and most necessary usually happens.”
“What is best for people is what they do for themselves.”
“What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.”
Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
“What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.”
“What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)
“What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?”
“What is better than these two extremes - ego and imposter syndrome - but simple confidence? Earned. Rational. Objective. Still.”
Source: Stillness Is the Key
“What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)