W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is the good of performing our act of revenge when it will come back upon us in greater measure?”
“What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.”
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
Source: Howard's End
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.”
Source: Howard's End
“What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.”
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus: New Translation and Guide to His Essenti
“What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)
“What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.”
“What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them at each other's throats so they don't have any money to do this. This is why we fought the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War.”
“What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.”
Source: Right Understanding to Helping Others Benevolence
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!”
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.”
“What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
“What is the hardest, but best thing in life? Love <3”
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
“What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?”
“What is the Heart? A flower opening.”
“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”
“What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.”
Source: The philosophy of aristotle, a new selection with an introd. and commentary by Renford Bambrough. New translations by A. E. Wardman and J. L. Creed
“What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.”
“What is the history of Cuba but the history of Latin America? And what is the history of Latin America but the history of Asia, Africa and Oceania? And what is the history of all these peoples but the history of the most pitiless and cruel exploitation by imperialism throughout the world? At the end of the last and the beginning of the present century a handful of economically developed nations had finished partitioning the world among themselves, subjecting to its economic and political domination two-thirds of humanity, which was thus forced to work for the ruling classes of the economically advanced capitalist countries.”
Source: The Declarations of Havana
“What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?”
“What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.”
“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“What is the image you have of yourself?”
“What is the Imago Dei, the Image of God? It’s a hive. God is the total hive, and we are all the hive cells. We are all mind bees, buzzing in our Singularity.”
Source: Base Reality: Ultimate Existence
“What is the impact of not being valued?
How do you measure the loss of what a human being does not receive?”
Source: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.”
“What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.”
“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.”
“What is the inherent nature of the relative self (pratisthit atma) like? It mimics what it sees, it does not have to be taught anything. Therefore, association should be with a truly (enlightened) person, a spiritually elevated person. And if there is association with bad people, then evil thoughts will arise.”
Source: Aptavani-9
“What is the inner life of an eidolon? Do his thoughts and his questions originate with him? Do mine with me? Is he my creature? Am I his? I saw how he made do with his paddles and that he was ashamed for me to see. His turn of speech, his endless pacing. Was that my work? I’ve no such talent. I cant answer your questions. The tradition of trolls or demons standing sentinel against inquiry must be as old as language. Still, maybe a friend must be someone you can touch. I dont know. I no longer have an opinion about reality. I used to. Now I dont. The first rule of the world is that everything vanishes forever. To the extent that you refuse to accept that then you are living in a fantasy.”
Source: Stella Maris
“What, is the jay more precious than the lark
Because his fathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel
Because his painted skin contents the eye?”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.”
Source: The Downstairs Girl
“What is the key to life on Earth?”
“What is the key to life? What will ensure good success? Living a God-centered and Holy Spirit led life. Simple. Uncomplicated”
“What is the kingdom [of God]? it lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.”
Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography
“What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.”
Source: Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories
“What is the lesser of two evils? Bad or worse?”
Source: The Flare Chronicles: Into The Blaze
“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”
Source: Scottish Gothic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City of Dreadful Night, A Beleaguered City
“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.”
“What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!”
Source: BITTER-SWEET A POEM
“What is the logic in it that one agrees to peace after causing millions of people killed than before it happens; indeed, it shows business or idiocy?”