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 price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?”
Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows
“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.”
“What is the Principle of life? A man is born to become God. There is a continuous change, and a transformation. How many Gods are there/ One, - this is ‘Advaitavad’ (Monism). See, the individualistic austerity is not acceptable because what is not common to all is not true.”
“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.”
“What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.”
“What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.”
“What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.”
“What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.”
Source: On Certainty
“What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.”
“What is the proper relationship between dodgy self-absorption and a quest for perceptive understanding of our own journey? Why do we need to determine who we are? Why do I spend hours attempting to evaluate past performance, reconcile exhibited flaws in my personal character, and atone for reprehensible prior behavior? Why cannot a person be satisfied with just being? People tend to spend more time living inside their head than they do confronting reality. Is a person’s constant internal narrative dialogue a form of catharsis? Is a narrative the most apropos method to comprehend what living entails? Do we seek to tell our own stories in order to interpret and organize the reality of the world that surrounds us? Alternatively, is storytelling simply the easiest way for us to apprehend the tenuous notion of the self? Does storytelling enable us to recognize the translucent thread that connects us to the past?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“What is the proper response to seeing a child arrested? Another child, the umpteenth child, when you've lived here long enough. And worse, arrested for something you can't be sure they actually did, even if they get found guilty?”
Source: An Extraordinary Union
“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.”
“What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It's for two things. It's for babies and it's for bonding. And that's what happens when you have sexual intercourse - you have babies and you bond. My view is, if you don't want to have babies and you don't want to bond, then you shouldn't be having sexual intercourse.”
“What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, searching and being exposed to danger; He too is given a struggle. Hunger and injustice exist in the heart, as does abundance of darkness. The things you see are not specters; no matter how much blow, they will not be dispelled. They are flesh and bone. Touch them; they exist. Don't you hear a cry in the air? They are crying. What are they crying? Help! To whom they are crying? You! You: every man. Rise up. Our duty is not to ask questions, but to clasp hands one and all and mount the ascent. (Report to Greco)”
“What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.”
“What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?”
Source: Triple Agent, Double Cross
“What is the purpose of all (...) about .....”
“What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.”
“What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.”
“What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?”
Source: Educating Alice
“What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?”
Source: Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
“What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.”
“What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?”
Source: Life of Pi
“What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“What is the purpose of the Lethani?" Tempi asked.
"To give us a path to follow?" I replied.
"No," Tempi said sternly. "The Lethani is not a path."
"What is the purpose of the Lethani, Tempi?"
"To guide us in our actions. By following the Lethani, you act rightly,"
"Is this not a path?"
"No. The Lethani is what help us choose a path.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.”
“What is the purpose of throwing aside and leaving behind all the corporeal things down on Earth if your only wish is to receive the same things in heaven?”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?”
Source: Me Before Them
“What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”
“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
“What is the quality of your intent?”
“What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.”
“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”
“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?”
Source: Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
“What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
Source: Where She Went
“What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.”
Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
“What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?”
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.”
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.”
“What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.”
Source: The Essence Of Wisdom
“What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."”