W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It Takes a Village,' that even love can be outsourced to teachers, coaches, clubs and mentors. The truth is that it does take a village, a community, but a community of families working, playing, cooperating and facing obstacles together, not a community of government institutions.”
“What is left to achieve when movements flirt with feet?”
“What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.”
“What is left when honor is lost?”
“What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.”
Source: The City of Mirrors
“What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct”
“What is liberty? The measure of dignity.”
“What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!”
“What is life, after all, if not a big, elaborate dream sequence?”
Source: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
“What is life after war? Returning to the lives we left is impossible, yet creating a life anew feels nearly as insurmountable. We live, fight, and survive while the memories--and the past--endure.
[Maria Florkowska]”
Source: The Last Checkmate
“What is life anyway?
Is it a bridge between thoughts and emotions?
Is it a reflection of brilliant and foolish notions?
Is it a system that provides methods to find roots?
Is it a map of many illusions and absolute truths?
What is life anyway?
Is it a gate to worlds that are not yet known?
Is it a farm where ideas are planted and grown?
Is it a tiny seed that blooms into a beautiful rose?
Is it a time capsule of experiences that you chose?”
Source: What Is Life Anyway?
“What is life but a confusing algorithm when you are aware, or a controlled simulation when you are not?”
Source: Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures
“What is Life? But a fleeting moment of a passing dream, a dream that flows too swiftly, nimble and calm, yet all but a moment's walk, a mad jest of a thousand voices finding a harmony in a conundrum of Time.
Finding calm in chaos, for a mind that never rests.
Smoky nights in the lull of rainy reflection.”
“What is life but a series of inspired follies.”
Source: Pygmalion
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.”
“What is life but an ongoing war?”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.”
“What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.”
“What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“What is life but playing with time?”
Source: Keith Richards on Keith Richards
“What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“What is life for? Life is for you.”
“What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather
have this one night with you than another thousand years.”
Source: Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”
“What is life if not a gamble?”
“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
Source: Baudolino
“What is life?
Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but experience isn’t life.
Life is reflecting and meditating
but reflection isn’t life.
Life is helping and guiding
but philanthropy isn’t life.
Life is eating and drinking
but food isn’t life.
Life is reading and dancing
but art isn’t life.
Life is kissing and pleasuring
but sex isn’t life.
Life is winning and losing
but competition isn’t life.
Life is loving and caring
but love isn’t life.
Life is birthing and nurturing
but children aren’t life.
Life is letting go and surrendering
but death isn’t life.
Life is all these things
but all these things aren’t life.
Life is
always more.”
“What is life, other than moments? What is laughter, other than a small victory over sorrow? A single moment, just one, when everything inside us isn't broken.”
Source: The Winners
“What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.”
“What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.”
Source: I AM: The Key to Manifesting
“What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.”
“What is life when living without the Lifemaker?”
“What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?”
“What is life without a little conflict?”
Source: The Little Light
“What is life without ambition?”
“What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.”
“What is life without incompatible realities?”
“What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?”
“What is life without laughter?”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?”
Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
“What is life without loss, love without loneliness, ecstasy without pain? You can't have one without the other or you could never appreciate either.”
Source: The Crystal Lattice
“What is life without love and touch?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“What is life, without someone to share with?”
“What is life without the joy of Love?”
“What is life without the radiance of love?”
“What is life without this? which was why, in the end, it was I, and not her, who blurted out, not once, but many, many times, You'll kill me if you stop, you'll kill me if you stop, because it was also my way of bringing full circle the dream and the fantasy, me and him, the longed-for words from mouth to mouth, which was when I must have begun using obscenities that he repeated after me, softly at first, till he said, "Call me by your name and I'll call you by my name," which I'd never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“What is life without treats?”
“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”
Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi