W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.”
“What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“What is excellent is of praise worthy.”
“What is excellent is of praiseworthy.”
“What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.”
“What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.”
“What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“What is existence? Existence is any state of the Being. Matter as it is, unaware of itself, exists regardless of “not” knowing that it exists. Still, as a part of a larger whole, any particle of matter contains information that serves that particle's specific purpose and the whole's purpose. Only nothing is not existence. But, without Nothing, existence would not be possible, so the Nothing is an essential part of existence. Still, we may say that only existing with some awareness is worth living.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”
Source: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
“What is existence? Selflessness.
What is life? Selflessness.
What is civilization? Selflessness.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.”
“What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.”
Source: Blood orchid: an unnatural history of America
“What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.”
“What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.”
“What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.”
“What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?”
“What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.”
“What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.”
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”
Source: Da Vinci Notebooks
“What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.”
“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883
“What is faith if it is not translated into action?”
“What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.”
Source: Credo
“What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.”
“What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“What is false about hope?”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.”
Source: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
“What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?”
Source: Foul Lady Fortune
“What is family? Most would say family means a group of people closely related by blood or marriage as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins. This is family of the biological kind. By the same token I’ve learned in my life experience that family can also be of the chosen kind. As queer people we very often find that our chosen families are the ones who love us unconditionally and pick up the slack in support of our personal truths and humanity when our biological family members don’t have the tools.”
Source: Unprotected: A Memoir
“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.”
“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.”
Source: Lock and Key
“What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.”
Source: Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom
“What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.”
“What is far is very close, and what is close is very far”
Source: The Seed
“What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.”
“What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.”
“What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.”
“What is fastest, hot or cold?
Hot, you can catch a cold.”
Source: Gags and Extracts
“What is Fate but pearls of choices strung together? What is Destiny but a path we walk on our own free will? Remember, Dark Ones, that nothing is written in the fabric of time until you decide where, when and what shall be the first verse. -- Excerpt from the Lost Chapters of the Ecliptic Scrolls”
Source: Dark Longing
“What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.”
“What is fear but courage's shadow?”
Source: Kushiel's Avatar
“What is fear but darkness”
Source: Progeny of Gods: Vertuém Destiny
“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.”
“What is fear, if not the illusion of what can or can't happen?”
Source: This Will Pass Too: Beat Cancer with Zero Fear - A Must-have Motivational Guide for Cancer Patients and Their Loved Ones
“What is fear of need but need itself?”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet