W Quotes
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“What is the ordinary criminal but one who has committed the fatal
mistake of endeavouring after what is the people's instead of seeking
for what is his? He has sought despicable alien goods, has done what
believers do who seek after what is God's. What does the priest who
admonishes the criminal do? He sets before him the great wrong of
having desecrated by his act what was hallowed by the state, its prop
erty (in which, of course, must be included even the life of those who
belong to the state); instead of this, he might rather hold up to him
the fact that he has besmirched himself in not despising the alien thing,
but thinking it worth stealing; he could, if he were not a cleric
Talk with the so-called criminal as with an egoist, and he will be ashamed,
not that he transgressed against your laws and goods, but that he
considered your laws worth evading, your goods worth desiring; he
will be ashamed that he did not - despise you and yours together,
that he was too little an egoist”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.”
Source: Chance and Chaos
“What is the overgiver getting out of this obviously imbalanced arrangement?
Or at least, what do they think they’re getting?
Because nobody overgives for no reason—even if those reasons are deeply hidden or disguised as acts of pure altruism.
So what is the payoff, exactly?
In my case, the payoff has always been love—or at least, the desperate hope of love.
And how far am I willing to go—how much will I extend myself, exhaust myself, burn myself out, or manipulate, seduce, soothe, manage, and control others—in order to get my own hidden needs and hungers met?
Are you kidding me?
To earn love?
I will give up everything I have.
I will overgive myself right to the edge of annihilation.
But only always.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?”
Source: Pigeon Feathers, and Other Stories
“What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?”
Source: Selected poems
“What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.”
“What is the pattern of change?”
“What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?”
Source: The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
“What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?”
“What is the payment the Treaty requires?'
His eyes didn't leave my face as he said, 'A life for a life. Any unprovoked attacks on faerie-kind by humans are to be paid only by a human life in exchange.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“What is the people's one desire, when once it has been stung by the democratic tarantula? It is that all men should be equal, and in consequence that all inequalities natural as well as artificial should disappear. It will not have artificial inequalities, nobility of birth, royal favours, inherited wealth, and so it is ready to abolish nobility, royalty, and inheritance. Nor does it like natural inequalities, that is to say a man more intelligent, more active, more courageous, more skillful than his neighbors. It cannot destroy these inequalities, for they are natural, but it can neutralize them, strike them with impotence by excluding them from the employments under its control. Democracy is thus led quite naturally, irresistibly one may say, to exclude the competent precisely because they are competent, or if the phrase pleases better and as the popular advocate would put it, not because they are competent but because they are unequal, or, as he would probably go on to say, if he wished to excuse such action, not because they are unequal, but because being unequal they are suspected of being opponents of equality. So it all comes to the same thing. This it is that made Aristotle say that where merit is despised, there is democracy. He does not say so in so many words, but he wrote: "Where merit is not esteemed before everything else, it is not possible to have a firmly established aristocracy," and that amounts to saying that where merit is not esteemed, we enter at once on a democratic regime and never escape from it.”
Source: Le culte de l'incompétence
“What is the phone number of Reddy book?
The Official Reddy Book Number +91 88826-42886. for all types of support.”
Source: Liv, död och hjärnkirurgi
“What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world
“What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?”
Source: Jesus for President
“What is the point in living if you’re just gonna be negative minded and dwell on your problems 24/7? You accomplish nothing but wasting the precious time you have here on hating and sulking. I’m not telling you to kill yourself, it’s not like that. I’m just saying I don’t see a point in being on this Earth if I’m just gonna miserable and negative about everything. Our own existence is a temporary gift. Make the best out of things and enjoy the life you have while you can, otherwise you’re being a general waste of space. That’s how I feel at least.”
“What is the point of a car alarm if it doesn't get people out of their beds to come help you? So if I ever have a car alarm - if I ever have a car - it's just going to be a big speaker on the back of my car. And when anybody tries to break in, it's just gonna go: Attention! Free bags of weed! Come get your free bags of weed!”
“What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?”
“What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?”
“What is the point of all these questions?”
Source: Proof
“What is the point of art? To make a point. Art can show you something you never saw before.”
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“What is the point of being alive when I have to live the rest of my life pretending to be dead?”
Source: In These Words 4
“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?”
Source: It's Not About the Burqa
“What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?”
“What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. (...) Culture does not make people. People make culture.”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“What is the point of fainting into a man's arms if you are not conscious to enjoy it?”
Source: Davenport House
“What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself.”
Source: Songs of the Mist
“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?”
“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“What is the point of having friends if they're not there to support your bad decisions?”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.”
“What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)”
Source: Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
“What is the point of living? Everything I care about is gone, swept away in a day and a night. So fast does the world change.”
Source: Animal's People
“What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?”
“What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?”
“What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?”
“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.”
Source: The Storyteller
“What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?”
“What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
“What is the point of you? What is your worth? And by worth I am not talking about your financial value, I am talking about something much more significant than that. So, I ask again - what is your worth? And you won't find the answer in any scripture or church - you won't find it even in this book. Because no external power can give you the answer to something so incredibly existential in nature.
If you want to know your worth, ask yourself, what are you without your bank account. The worth of a person lies in character. The same goes for a nation and the same goes for a world. Therefore, a nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people. And it all begins with the individual - it all begins with you. Your character holds not just the worth of your own life, but that of the lives of your people as well. So, feel like it's the feeling of your society and act like it's the action of your society.
But mark you, here I do not mean, feeling and acting like the society, rather, I am asking you to feel, think and act as an original, brave and conscientious human being, so that you become the very emblem of humanhood in front of others, for them to draw their life’s inspiration from. Doing what the society wants, makes you a second hand human - wanting the society to do what you want, makes you a narcissistic bigot - but being an embodiment of humanhood without any expectation from others, is what makes you a sentient human.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“What is the point, she thinks, of loving something you are doomed to lose? Of holding on to someone who cannot hold on to you?”
Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.”
Source: Nothing But Trouble
“What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question.”
“What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?”
“What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.”
“What is the ‘present’? We say that only the things of the present exist: the past no longer exists and the future doesn’t exist yet. But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the ‘now’.”
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics