W Quotes
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“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“What is history, indeed, but a record of change?”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
Source: The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)”
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.”
“What is holding you back?
Is it fear of failure?
Lack of courage?
Family or friends?
Procrastination?
Or no capital?”
“What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.”
“What is holy is Honourable.”
“What is holy, what is not, can't be determined by rituals and ceremonies, it can only be determined by human action, for every act of humaneness is holiness itself.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“What is home but a book we write, then
read again & again, each time dog-earing
different pages.”
Source: Goldenrod: Poems
“What is home but a place where you are truly known?”
Source: The City of Mirrors
“What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”
Source: Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
“What is home to a hero
Once that home is gone?
Who am I to go home to,
Who will sing me my last song?”
Source: These Bewitching Bonds: A Black Girls Create Anthology
“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!”
“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.”
“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”
“What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.”
“What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.”
“What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to go on. It is a feeling that we have what we need to continue our journey to the next moment.”
Source: Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
“What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.”
“What is hotter than the magma? A sincere smile! What is colder than the ice? A ruthless face!”
“What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.”
“What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!”
“What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?”
Source: Microserfs: A Novel
“What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.”
“What is human is also kind,
Kindness is supreme sanity.
Acceptance is love in practice,
Love is the truest upward mobility.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“What is human is immortal!”
“What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he was. "It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape. It is more like a story-telling machine. Sensory information is broken down into shards of perception, which are broken down again to be stored as memory fragments. And at night, as the body rests, these fragments are brought out from storage, reassembled and replayed. Each run-through etches them deeper into the brain's neural structure. And each time a memory is rehearsed or recalled it is elaborated. We may add a little, lose a little, tinker with the logic, fill in sections that have faded, perhaps even conflate disparate events.
"In extreme cases, we refer to this as confabulation. The brain creates and recreates the past, producing, in the end, a version of events that may bear little resemblance to what actually occurred. To first order, I believe it's true to say that everything I remember is false.”
“What is humanity - humans thinking of humans, that’s humanity.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.”
Source: The World Of The Sufi
“What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.”
“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”
Source: Four Spirits
“What is hyperinflation? It is the dramatic process of an established currency losing its usefulness as money. Prices rise rapidly and uncontrollably as a result of excessive money printing and a loss of confidence in the currency.”
Source: When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money
“What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.”
“What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.”
“what is ideals? Deliverance from such a predicament can only come through the realization that one’s highest moral ideals are not necessarily synonymous with the will of God. Man cannot hope to live up to his highest ideals, but he can be true to his purpose of finding God and becoming more and more like him.”
“What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“What is imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do”
“What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.”
“What is imperative is the Off switch;
which he, at one point some time ago,
opted for himself.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“What is imperative is to keep the momentum going. The difference between success and failure is very thin.
The urge to win must be like a hunger inside you.”
“What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.”
“What is important about immigration is how immigrants arrived and what the individual immigrants do with their lives after arriving. Do they open a restaurant or other business, do they provide for their family, do they integrate into the larger community - in essence, do they become proud Americans? Or do they try their hardest to stay "economic migrants" or "hyphenated-Americans"? Or, at worst, do they attempt to convert America into the countries from which they escaped?”
“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”
Source: DUNE