W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.”
Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics
“What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?”
“What is normal anyways, it’s just a setting on a washing machine.”
Source: Unhinged
“What is normal is up for debate.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together”
Source: Snuff
“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
“What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.”
“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”
Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie
“What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.”
“What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'”
“What is not discussed, will not be advanced.”
“What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.”
“What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.”
“What is not fully understood is not possessed.”
“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.”
Source: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself
“What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.”
Source: The Book of Questions: Volume II [Yaël; Elya; Aely; El, Or the Last Book]
“What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.”
Source: 1984
“What is not important is your or my god. What is important is "That" which unto all, as All.”
“What is not in nature can never be true.”
Source: The Complete Romances of Voltaire
“What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“What is not possible is not to choose.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“What is not recorded is not remembered.”
Source: Daughter of the East
“What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“What is not to be, will not be. Accept this truth and you will never be unhappy!”
“What is not Visible, is Visible.
And What is Visible, is not Visible.
Mr. Perfect Ak~”
“What is not worth understanding is not knowing.”
“What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.”
“What is not yet known those
blinded by bad faith can never
learn.”
Source: Fragments
“What is not yours, will never be yours! What is yours, no one can hinder it!”
“What is nothing to you, can be love to me”
“What is Nothing?
When we use the word “is,” that usually means what follows must be something. But if what follows is nothing, this means that nothing does not exist. If nothing does not exist, then the question is why we would even bother saying that. When something is, it usually means that it exists. How can something be anything, even nothing, if it does not exist? So, nothing is only a word, and we can use the “is” before the word nothing in that sense. It still does not mean that the real nothing, of which the word nothing is only a verbal representation, a written sign, exists.
Without nothing, there can be no largest nor smallest of anything material.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.”
“What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”
“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”
Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
“What is now in the past was once in the future”
Source: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”
“What is now Tanzania was once Tanganyika and before that part of British East Africa and prior to that a colony of Germany. During World War I the fighting actually came to the Continent of Africa. Known as the East African Campaign, many of the battles almost went unreported and are little known, however the romance of this war is portrayed by many novels and the well-known movie “African Queen,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. The film is a stretch, but strictly speaking it is based on a true story, however even saying this, neither the original novel nor the movie bears more than a passing resemblance to reality.
The four years of warfare mostly fought in Europe, cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and affected many millions more. The campaigns, skirmishes and battles in Africa, although relatively small, cost the lives of 14 German soldiers with 34 being wounded whereas the British had a total of about 150 casualties.
“In actual fact the four years of warfare from 1914 to 1918, cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and affected many millions more. The campaigns, skirmishes and battles although relatively small, cost the lives of 14 German troops with 34 being wounded whereas the British had a total of about 150 casualties.
An example of the type of battles fought in Africa was the Battle of Bukoba. Here the British objective was the destruction of the Bukoba wireless station on the shore of Lake Victoria, it was decided that the raid should take the form of an amphibious assault by the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the 25th Frontier Royal Fusiliers who served in the African Theatre of war around Lake Tanganyika, British East African and German East African territory. Upon reaching the objective at Bukoba, the attackers were mistakenly landed in a large swamp and were pinned down by fierce rifle”
“What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other.”
Source: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
“What is now the foliage moving?
Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
Sultriness, this fullness loving,
Through the thicket, from the trees.
Now the eye at once gleams brightly,
See! the infant band with mirth
Moves and dances nimbly, lightly,
As the morning gave it birth,
Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.”
“What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.”
“What is objectification? From Simone de Beauvoir to Martha Nussbaum to Catharine MacKinnon, feminist philosophers have long been interested in analysing the concept. Broadly speaking, to objectify a woman is to treat or represent her as a partly or wholly dehumanised, de-mentalised object. There are various ways to do that. Fashion and advertising offer several possibilities for doing so visually. You can represent her as a dazed, passive thing to be fucked, with a vacant expression and glazed eyes, as in many high-end fashion advertising campaigns. Extending this, you can represent her as sexually dominated, with her personal autonomy diminished or removed: bound or gagged, for instance. You can dress her up in animal skins or leopard print and represent her as a kind of wild, highly sexualised animal, something the fashion industry has been particularly fond of doing to black women over the years. You can dress and pose her as a stereotype: the Capable Housewife (in domestic setting, comfortable clothes, tolerant rueful smile), the Brainy Scientist (white coat, stern expression, glasses on end of nose), the Little Girl (kneesocks, pigtails, blowing bubblegum), the Sexy Vamp (cleavage, tongue on front teeth, wink). You can place her in a row with other similarly shaped, similarly adorned women, visually emphasising what they all have in common in looks and dress, so that individuality is rhetorically diminished, and one woman looks replaceable with any other. You can make her just a pair of legs, or breasts, or an arse, focusing the camera on body parts and even omitting the head and face. In all such cases, the thinking mind, personality, autonomy or particular individuality of the woman in the image is downplayed, diminished and ignored, to a greater or lesser extent. She’s ‘objectified’ in the sense she’s made more like an object and less like a fully individuated human being: less rational, less individual, less present, less important for who she actually is. In extreme cases, she can even be used as if or pictured as an inanimate object: a ‘table’ for men’s feet, or as a ‘plate’ for food– as in the Japanese practice of Nyotaimori, using a woman’s naked body as a receptacle for sushi in restaurants.”
Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
Source: The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
“What is obscenity? And to whom?”
“What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.”
“What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .”
“What is of consequence is I did my best.”