W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is moksha (the ultimate liberation)? A change in vision should occur. The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) can help you attain that change in vision.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.”
“What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.”
“What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.”
“What is moral is what you feel good after.”
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.”
“What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of standing above temptations, or of conquering hate, anger, greed, lust and violence.
Questioning your actions before and after creates the moral problem. What is responsible for this situation is the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong and influencing your actions accordingly.Life is action. Unquestioned action is morality. Questioning your actions is destroying the expression of life. A person who lets life act in its own way without the protective movement of thought has no self to defend. What need will he have to lie or cheat or pretend or to commit any other act which his society considers immoral?”
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti
“What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
“What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.”
“What is more agreeable than one's home?”
“What is more arrogant than honesty?”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
“what is
more beautiful
tears, in someone’s eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!”
“What is more beautifully cocooned in this microcosm at the centre of vast galaxies than an unflinching and unwavering effort and optimism embellished with sheer will to look beyond the present and hope for a better-sustained life? A future where adverse effects of climate change become a thing of the past, a future for earth made possible by the daring tenacity of man coined from harnessing climatech for social good.”
“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”
Source: Marjorie Daw and Other People
“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?”
“What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?”
“What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“What is more gentle than a wind is summer?”
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
“What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.”
“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
Source: The Passion
“What is more immoral than war?”
“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”
Source: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
“What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.”
Source: Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections
“What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?”
Source: Persons and Places
“What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.”
“What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.”
“What is more important than sex is maternity.”
“What is more important than success and failure is that you continue trying.”
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
“What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.”
“What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?”
“What is more irritating than to see one’s subject, on whom one has lavished so much time and trouble, slipping out of one’s grasp altogether and indulging — witness her sighs and gasps, her flushing, her palings, her eyes now bright as lamps, now haggard as dawns
— what is more humiliating than to see all this dumb show of emotion and excitement gone through before our eyes when we know that what causes it — thought and imagination — are of no importance whatsoever?”
Source: Orlando
“What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?”
“What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.”
Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)
“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...”
Source: Les Misérables
“What is more miserable than discontent?”
Source: The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field
“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”
Source: Afterthoughts
“What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?
You can leave the bookshop content, you, a man who thought that the period where you could still expect something from life had ended. You are bearing with you two different expectations, and both promise days of pleasant hopes; the expectation contained in the book - of a reading experience you are impatient to resume - and the expectation contained in that telephone number - of hearing again the vibrations, a times treble and at times smoldering, of that voice, when it will answer your first phone call in a while, in fact tomorrow, with the fragile pretext of the book, to ask her if she likes it or not, to tell her how many pages you have read or not read, to suggest to her that you meet again...”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.”
“What is more painful, Unable to get the Love of your life or being Indifferent to the One who loves you the most?”
“What is more perfect in life than a home? That one thing that isn’t distinguished by luxury or perks but by the embrace that it provides.”
“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?”
“What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner - the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much lorger duration.”
Source: A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy
“What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.”
“What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.”