W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?”
Source: Summer of my German soldier
“What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.”
Source: Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)
“What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is genuinely awe-inspiring is the realization that, at the molecular level, we are all composed of the same fundamental materials. We share a profound connection, an inherent oneness that transcends the boundaries of individuality. From the grandest galaxies to the tiniest atoms, we are all manifestations of the same energy source
woven together in the intricate fabric of existence.”
Source: From Student to Teacher: A Journey of Transformation and Manifestation
“What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?”
Source: For Keeps
“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.”
“What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.”
“What is Gnan (true knowledge)? There should be solutions from all sides and no contradictions should arise. A non-contradictory principle is the one whose sentence will exactly match even if it is spoken after fifty years. No contradiction would arise.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.”
Source: Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo
“What is God, and all for which we’re striving?
Sweetest skeptic, we were born for living.
Life is Love, and Love is –
You, dear, you.”
“What is God anyway?"
"A dark place —”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“What is God? God is a motion – a perpetual motion. The spontaneous motion of the human body is always continuing”
“What is God? He is within this body as ‘Soul’ or ‘Atman. He shows Himself in each step of the body. This universe is within the ‘Atman’ or ‘Soul’. Again the Soul is within the body. That means this universe is within us. As soon as we are born, we reflect this universe outside and live in it.”
“What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.”
“What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.”
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
“What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.”
Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People
“What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry?”
“What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.”
“What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.”
“What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.”
“What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one.”
“What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?”
Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel
“What is going to happen to the Aurorans?"
"They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine they will be set to work at the base of the Spire."
Grimm tightened his jaw. "No, sir."
"No?"
"No, sir," Grimm said. "I've seen that place. You might as well tie a noose around their necks and stand them on blocks of ice, if you want them to die a slow death. It will be cleaner."
"I'm not sure why this concerns you, Captain," Albion said.
"Because they surrendered to me," Grimm said. "They gave me their parole, sir. They could have fought on with no real chance of victory, and it would have been bloody. But that surrender saved blood and lives of Albions and Aurorans alike. I will not see Captain Castillo repaid with such churlish treatment.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.”
“What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.”
“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“What is gone is what God wished and what I have is my destiny. I shall make the best of what is available to me”
Source: the red diary
“What is gone, that is gone; live looking only forward.”
Source: CELESTIAL DAZZLE: Book 2
“What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.”
Source: Ninety Days of God's Goodness: Daily Reflections That Shine Light on Personal Darkness
“What is good customer service about then?
One word: caring.
Bad customer service happens when the employee doesn't care.
You could chalk it up to low wages or getting paid regardless of results. But that's not it either.
Hiring managers need to do two things and two things only:
1. Hire employees that ALREADY care and are ALREADY motivated.
2. Repeat step 1.
When this is done, everything changes.
People are happy on both sides of the table.
Costs for management and training plummet”
“What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.”
“What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.”
“What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.”
“What is good for society is also good for business.”
“What is good for the bad, and what is bad for the good.”
“What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.”
“What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be.”
“What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”
Source: The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel Against the Wisdom of the World
“What is good is good.”
“What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.”
“What is good is what it's going to lead to, like the song "Jai Ho." If good numbers are going to come in the future, it bodes well for a lot of things. But then, who's going to maintain that. That's the question. So far they could never lead to an Indian song, like a normal film song in this that they can relate to.”
“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”
Source: The Stranger in Lowell
“What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“What is good, strong and true knows how to wait.”
“What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.”
“What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”