W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.”
Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume
“What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.”
“What is work going to look like in the future? How are Democrats going to be able to give people a sense that they can have good jobs, or if they don't have good jobs, maybe they have to have universal basic income - we have to have a longer discussion about the future. This is not just an intellectual exercise; it's an exercise about giving people hope.”
“What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.”
“What is working stain, does not soil.”
“What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It’s not much of a basis for an economy.”
“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).”
Source: Ethics
“What is worse than indifference is when people’s nationalism allows for the conscious rationalisation of brutality as part of a political balance sheet. It is but a grave oversight when people shift their responsibility towards moral values for the duty to obey.”
“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
“What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.”
“What is worth doing and what is not worth doing in this world? What is worth knowing and what is not worth knowing?’ That is all you have to understand!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“What is worth having is worth working for.”
“What is worth knowing can only be experienced.”
“What is worth knowing is discovered in the wilderness.”
“What is worth living for if not something worth dying for?”
“What is worth living for if not something worth dying for?" - Angus Og Macdonald in Bound by Honor”
“What is worth pursuing is worth staying on course for.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“What is worth winning in this world? The three veds (sufferings). The one who has conquered ved (sufferings), he has conquered the whole world. What are the three veds (the sufferings)? The male, the female and the neutral gender.”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.”
“What is woven on the loom of fate
What is woven in the councils of princes
Is woven also in our veins, our brains,
Is woven like a pattern of living worms
In the guts of the women of Canterbury”
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
“What is writing after all but an attempt to sort out the confusion of life?” @isabelallende”
“What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?”
“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”
“What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.”
“What is writing? Writing is telepathy.”
“What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.”
“What is written comes to pass.”
Source: The Speaker
“What is written for you will reach you, even through closed gates.”
“What is written in my destiny, it will happen anyway.”
Source: Just Love Her
“What is written in the stars? And what do God and the Devil know of me?”
“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”
“What is written is more influential than what is said.”
“What is written, it will happen, you can't stop it, you can only change it with your duas.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“What is wrong, and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable, is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.”
Source: Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.”
“What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, then it is absolutely right to do what is right! Do what is right and be right in what you do!”
“What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.”
Source: The Will to Power
“What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.”
“What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis (1) undermines students' interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.”
Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and
“What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!”
“What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?”
“What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?”
“What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.”
Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography
“What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.”
“What is wrong with me?' I shake my head, my hands clenching into fists. 'Any other rider would be thrilled.' Even now, I feel the power simmering just beneath my skin.
'You've never been like any other rider.' He moves closer but doesn't touch me.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“What is wrong with me, that even this fucking loser won't give me what I want?”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.”