W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is marriage, mother?
Child, it is spinning, having children, making money, and weeping.
Portuguese proverb”
Source: Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i
“What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.”
Source: From I to Q
“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”
Source: Last Operas and Plays
“What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?”
“What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.”
“What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!”
“What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.”
Source: Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner
“What is matter? Never mind.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.”
“What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.”
Source: General psychopathology
“What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?”
Source: Counsel and Comfort Spoken from a City Pulpit
“What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets”
“What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.”
“What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“What is meant by "the real world" is most often not the "real" but merely the physical world.”
“What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.”
Source: Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python
“What is meant for you will find you, in its own time.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What is meant for you will return to you in its appointed time.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah.”
“What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.”
“What is meant to stay cannot be taken. What is meant to go cannot be held.”
“What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.”
Source: Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
“What is meditation? Meditation is to learn to be with yourself, meditation is to delight in your own being. Meditation is a totally relaxed state of consciousness, where you are not doing anything. Meditation is just to
be, not doing anything, no action, no thought and no emotion. You just are, and it is a sheer joy and delight. This joy and delight when you are not doing anything comes from nowhere or everywhere. The essence of existence is joy. Joy and happiness is your very being, your innermost core. When you look at the birds, the trees and the stars, you will see that the whole existence is joyful. Birds are
happy for no reason, trees are happy for no reason and flowers are happy for no reason. The whole existence is made of joy. If you can just be with yourself, not doing anything, just enjoying yourself, just being with yourself,
not doing anything, then you are in meditation.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.”
Source: Face to Face: 12 Edgar Cayce Readings Interpreted for Today
“What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not the character, it is the consciousness that you bring to whatsoever you do. The doing is irrelevant. Whether you are doing it consciously or not is the question, whether moral or immoral. Are you alert? If you are alert, meditation happens. If you are not alert, you live in sleep.”
“What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.”
“What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“What is memory anyway? Yesterday's reality in no more tangible then last night's dream!”
Source: Doctor Strange (1974-1987) #15
“What is memory but the fashioning of a deep and personal fiction? In memory, we shape the world around ourselves, as if to prove our own existence, to demonstrate the mark we have left upon the universe. We become heralds of something better; the guiding light by which we believe all others might navigate. This, then, is the comfort we award ourselves for the act of living, for to comprehend the truth – that the universe is cold and ambivalent at best, and at worst despises our very existence – is to contemplate madness. So it is that we grow to love the lie.”
Source: Awakenings
“What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.”
“What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?”
“What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.”
“What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our provincialism.”
“What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.”
“What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.”
“What is mine will never leave. What leave was never mine.”
“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.”
Source: Elizabeth Costello
“What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts.”
Source: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
“What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.”
“What is missing from your life? Know that whatever you are missing, you are - most likely - not giving. Bring to your life what you want from it. If you don't think The Uni-verse is helping you, try trusting yourself and taking a risk. Listen to your intuition. Do what scares you... and the see the miracle that awaits.”
“What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.”
“What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to
act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe
he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw
away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we
have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief
that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still
do what he says in his Word.”
Source: Forcefully Advancing
“What is modern society’s obsession with wiping out all diversity and nuance in favor of cheap, shoddy monoliths?”
Source: Permanent Record
“What is modesty but inverted pride?”
Source: A Man of the People