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 world? What is it for?
It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, delta blues, opera, tragedy, comedy, romance, epic. Assess it like you would a Faberge egg, like a gunfight, like a musical, like a snowflake, like a death, a birth, a triumph, a love story, a tornado, a smile, a heartbreak, a sweater, a hunger pain, a desire, a fufillment, a desert, a waterfall, a song, a race, a frog, a play, a song, a marriage, a consummation, a thirst quenched.
Assess it like that. And when you're done, find an ant and have him assess the cathedrals of Europe.”
“What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.”
“What is the worldly life like? People will cook out the vegetables of you [people will take your benefit]; If a mango is unripe, they will grate and make pickle; If a mango is ripe, they will suck out all the juice and pulp from it. That is why the worldly existence with these people is very difficult. Instead one would fare well even if he were to remain in satsang.”
Source: Worries
“What is the worldly vision (lok-drashti)? It is to believe north as being south.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.”
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“What is the worst that could happen? she'd asked herself. You could die, the fear whispered back. What is the best? You could live.”
Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what you will have is growing unemployment in Zimbabwe, growing impoverishment among the people, growing social conflict. And I think that is the worst sort of outcome, that collapse of Zimbabwe certainly would have a much, much worse effect on the region than mere image.”
“What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.”
“What is the worth of a woman plagued by sadness?
When people demand joy always, it makes the world seem incompatible with those of us whose happiest days are still anguished. In this way, joy was one of my earliest alienators.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?”
Source: The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published
“What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.”
“What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.”
Source: Husserl, shorter works
“What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?”
“What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?”
“What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.”
“What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?”
Source: Discourses on Human Life
“What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.”
Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
“What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?”
“What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?”
“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”
Source: The Last Man
“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?”
“What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
“What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?”
“What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?”
“What is there left to understand? Choice is an illusion. Freedom is conceit. The hands that reach out to guide your every step, your every thought, come not from the gods, for they are no less deluded than we - no, my friends, those hands come to each of us... from each of us.”
Source: The Bonehunters
“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.”
Source: The People, Yes
“What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye”
Source: Transformation
“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.”
Source: The Evil Eye
“What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?”
“What is there that money will not do?”
Source: The Way We Live Now
“What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.”
“What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.”
“What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?”
“What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.”
“What is there to life?", I asked with great desolation,
'You answered' to my surprise, "It is full of equations",
I tried to write it down,
But found no pen on the ground,
I stared upon the stars and clouds,
My heart was so chilly, as night enshrouds,
Your words melted me to my very bones,
It has brought me closer to the unknown,
You explained the unexplainable,
Even if we are all small and irrational,
We have judged the universe in quite amiss,
"How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.”
“What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?”
“What is there to live for if one only pursues what other people want and never considers their own dream?”
Source: Veronica
“What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.”
“What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great.”
“What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.”