W Quotes
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“what is unreasonable is irrefutable.”
“What is unseen to us is not inactive. God revealed in the Bible a large, very active, and invisible population of spirits. They outnumber mortal people. When we are born as spirits by faith in Jesus, we may perceive this population. Among us are spirits of several kinds.”
Excerpt From: Paul Renfroe. “Nobody Sees This YOU.”
Source: Nobody Sees This You: How to Live as a Spirit in the Unseen Realm
“What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?!”
“What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.”
Source: Future Positive
“What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.”
“What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.”
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
“What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name?”
“What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”
Source: The works
“What is vanity but the longing to survive?”
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“What is veiling you from Him is visibly present in your heart — check and clean.”
Source: The Book of Love
“What is very exciting with children is they like to play, and they don't care so much about the meanings [of things], and they are just excited to have weird scenes to do or weird things to do, like playing deaf, or playing sick, or swimming in the water.”
“What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.”
“What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.”
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“What is “virtual reality”? It’s where people HIDE from real reality. What is the spectacular society? It’s where people watch other people having the spectacular life of which they dream. Why don’t they try to make it happen FOR REAL? There’s no high higher than REAL highs. There’s nothing better than being a real hero, not a fantasy hero. Ironically, all the spectacular people are a crashing disappointment in real life. They don’t have their scriptwriters with them to give then something clever and witty to say. They don’t have their make-up artists with them or the airbrushers or digital image enhancers that make them look so good on screen.”
Source: The Revolt of the Spectacular Society
“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”
“What is virtue when surrounded by toxic people?
What is honesty in the maelstrom of the oppressive?
For as sweet as you may be, you might as well be a grain of sugar lost in a spoon of salt.”
“What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community”
“What is virtue? Reason in practice.”
“What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.”
“What is waiting for us if we would simply let go of the seemingly safe ledge to which we are and dive into all God is and all He has for us?”
Source: Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”
“What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.”
“What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.”
“What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
“What is war?' I asked.
Oh, it's a messy, stupid business,' he said, 'Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another dead. It always begins this way, making speeches, talking about rights, and all that sort of thing.'
But what is it for? What do they get out of it?'
I don't know,' he said. 'To tell you the truth, I don't think they know themselves.”
Source: Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary
“What is warranted by the direction of nature’s light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?”
Source: Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince, a Dispute for the Just Prerogative of King and People, Containing the Reasons and Causes of the Defensive Wars of ... Help of Their Brethren of England. in Whic
“What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?”
“What is wealth? A dream of fools.”
Source: The Rise of David Levinsky
“What is well done is done soon enough.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited
“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“What is well planted will not be uprooted.”
“What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.”
“What is whiter than snow?' he said. 'The truth,' said Grania.
'What is the best colour?' said Finn. 'The colour of childhood,' said she.
'What is hotter than fire?' 'The face of a hospitable man when he sees a stranger coming in, and the house empty.'
'What has a taste more bitter than poison?' 'The reproach of an enemy.'
'What is best for a champion?' 'His doings to be high, and his pride to be low.'
'What is the best of jewels?' 'A knife.'
'What is sharper than a sword?' 'The wit of a woman between two men.'
'What is quicker than the wind?' said Finn then. 'A woman’s mind,' said Grania. And indeed she was telling no lie when she said that.”
Source: Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland
“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.
Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.”
Source: Wild: An Elemental Journey
“What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.”
“What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.”
Source: Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor
“What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends”
“What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, "I'm coming into Reagan!"”
“What is WITH this guy and impersonating lizards? Man. He’s not exactly David Attenborough.”
Source: Damned
“What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.”
“What is withdrawal?"
"Let's see, since you know your scripture so well, was that Onan? Yes, that bugger. What he did."
"Spilling his seed on the floor?"
"Yes," continued her husband, "it would be lovely if I could take you and spill my seed somewhere else. Not on the floor, mind you. But perhaps on your very soft belly. Perhaps even on your splendid breasts. and perhaps, if I'm in a really terrible mood, I'll make you swallow it.
- Vere to Elissande”
Source: His at Night
“What is within is untouchable.”
“What is without periods of rest will not endure.”
“What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.”
“What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy