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“What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one’s own Soul.”
“What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.”
Source: Levels of Life
“What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.”
“What is Tao?
Here we see the vast limitation of concept and language. for however anyone might describe the Tao; be they wise man, scholar or fool, the Tao itself is always just beyond description or concept. Yet the infinite Tao itself just here, within and all around”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.”
“What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.”
Source: Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy
“What is technology?... It's another god.”
“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.”
Source: Intentions
“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.”
Source: The Case of Comrade Tulayev
“What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.”
Source: The Case of Comrade Tulayev
“What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?”
“What is that?” Addison inspects the food with a look of sheer revulsion on her face. You’d swear I just handed her a plate full of arsenic.
“The Works Burger with fries and extra onions and cheese, exactly as you ordered.” I keep my voice level.
She sends me a scathing look. “Do I look like I’d ever consume that amount of saturated fat?”
Source: Finding Kyler
“What is that beauty which the artist struggles to express from lumps of earth”
Source: A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
“What is that,' Devlon asked.
Nesta merely stared at him, one hand clamping the edges of her grey cloak together at her chest. One of the other camp lords made some sign against evil.
'That,' Cassian said too quietly, 'is none of your concern.'
'Is she a witch?'
I opened my mouth, but Nesta said flatly, 'Yes.'
And I watched as nine full-grown, weathered Illyrian warlords flinched.
'She may act like one sometimes,' Cassian clarified, 'but no- she's High Fae.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“What is that fear which makes you seek, beyond all boundaries, ruptures, shifts, and divisions, the great historico-transcendental destiny of the Occident?”
Source: The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
Source: On the Road
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
“What is that hair? So yesterday.”
“What is that?" I asked because her was stuffing puff pastry with a rich brown mixture.
"It is called tourte de blettes," he said. "A specialty of our region."
"What are blettes?" The word was unfamiliar to me.
"It is a green vegetable, like cabbage, only with long green curly leaves," he explained, then he held a stalk up for me.
"Is that Swiss chard?" I exclaimed. "Then it is a savory tart?"
"No, mademoiselle, it is for the dessert."
"But chard? That must taste bitter."
"Not at all. It is made with raisins and pine nuts and brown sugar, and when it is finished, I will save a small taste for you. You will see, it tastes not at all bitter. Quite delicious, in fact.”
Source: Above the Bay of Angels
“What is that if not a bad life? Luring others to you, then turning from them?”
Source: Circe
“What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.”
“What is that like? Sloane asked,her voice quiet, genuinely curious.
I knew the answer to that immediately. It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark and seeing the view. It was scary and safe and peaceful and exciting, all at the same time. It was the way I felt when I was with him.
Like a well-ordered universe.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“What is that look for?' Dain whispers.
'What look?' I ask as the distant roar of a dragon echoes off the stone walls.
...
'The one where someone just sucked the joy out of your world,' Dain responds, bending his head slightly and keeping his voice low enough that only I can hear him.
I could lie to him, but that would make our semi-truce even more awkward. 'I was just remembering the guy I used to climb trees with, that's all.'
He startles like I've slapped him.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?”
“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“What is that over there?", asked the boy.
"It's the wild", said the mole; "Don't fear it"
"Imagine how we'd be, if we were less afraid...??”
Source: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse / The Art of Happiness
“What is that, Shakespeare?"
"Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.”
Source: The Zoo Job
“What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)”
“What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.”
“What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.”
“What is that statue?" I asked. "A Civil War general--probably Lee's," Amzie said. "What else is on the courthouse lawn?" The statue stood on one side of the entrance and a beautiful tree on the other. "What kind of tree is that?" I asked. "I don't know for sure," Amzie replied, "but I think it's an oak. Big, ain't it? Strong, too. Been there a long time."
For a moment he sat still and full of thoughts. "Let's look around town," I said. "Wait," he replied. "You just gave me a thought. There's a picture of the South if I ever saw one. That Southern general and that tree. One is the dead past and the other the living present. This South is sure caught in between--between life and death.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“What is that thing?' Matt asked. '...Is this object…alien?'
'Very much so,' Samantha remarked, half in wonder, half in sorrow. 'It is an alien gunship, manned by an alien crew but for one man—one person from Earth who was forsaken but has now returned to destroy his home.”
Source: Starganauts
“What is that thing you call an obstacle? It's just your lack of talent, because if you have a high talent, there is no obstacle!”
“What is that unforgettable line?”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.”
“What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.”
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition
“What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.”
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Source: CHIMERAWORLD #2
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“What is the Absolute? Absolute can only be the absolute knowledge, thought, mind, immaterial “substance,” the absolute “brain” (spirit) that contains an infinite programming ability and potential for absolute plurality through chance. Since human beings are limited, although much more advanced than other animals, they cannot understand inconceivable and invisible spaces by experience, experiment, or evidence, far exceeding their perceptive and sensory abilities. Even if they were at a higher level of evolution, humans would be unsure if they found the final truths and complete knowledge. However, if they free themselves from dogmas—religious, political, and others—human beings can count on a higher degree of understanding and closer touch with the world.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly”
Source: The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
“What is the alt-right? It's a dressed-up term for white nationalism. They call themselves white identitarianism. They say that the tribalism that's inherent in the human spirit ought to be also applied to white people.”
“What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].”