W Quotes
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“What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.”
“What keeps you awake at night often gives your Life meaning – if you can detach yourself from the what’s-in-it-for-me question and instead ask yourself how you can create value for other fellow voyagers like you.”
“What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.”
“What keeps you from giving now? Isn't the poor person there? Aren't your own warehouses full? Isn't the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry person is dying now, the naked person is freezing now, the person in debt is beaten now-and you want to wait until tomorrow? "I'm not doing any harm," you say. "I just want to keep what I own, that's all." You own! You are like someone who sits down in a theater and keeps everyone else away, saying that what is there for everyone's use is your own...If everyone took only what they needed and gave the rest to those in need, there would be no such thing as rich and poor. After all, didn't you come into life naked, and won't you return naked to the earth?
The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry person; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the person who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the person with no shoes; the money which you put in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help. —Basil, fourth century.”
Source: Advent Sourcebook
“What keeps you from the inner peace and contentment you crave now? Must life's battles be fought and won before you can be satisfied?”
“What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.”
“What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”
“What keeps you locked, your inability to attempt, withal your continuous effort to unlock”
“What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.”
“What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.”
“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
“What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.”
“What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's cell
And if you're one of them then you're one of me
And you would do almost anything just to feel free...- From the song Fake You Out”
“What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.”
Source: The Courage to Create
“What killed me is you didn’t even want it. You fought it, you hid from it. I would have taken it and relished it and embraced it.”
“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”
Source: Limitations
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
“What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”
“What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.”
“What kills me makes others stronger.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”
“What, Kilorn?' I sigh.
'What,' he echoes, shaking his head. After a long second, something snaps in him. 'I know you don't feel the same way I do. About us.'
I'm seized by the urge to smash my head against a rock. Us. It feels stupid to talk about, a foolish waste of time and energy. But more than that, it's embarrassing and uncomfortable. My cheeks flame red. This is not a conversation I ever wanted to have with him.”
Source: Glass Sword
“What kind of a father could do that?! It was bad enough—”
I cut him off. “Wait, what?” I snapped my head toward him, knowing my gaze was glassy, the corners of my eyes stinging with tears that had forced their way to the surface.
“How could your dad do that to you, let alone at this time of the year? And after everything with your mom—Christmas is about family.”
“Wait,” I sniffed, wiping my eyes with the backs of my hands. “You were calling my dad a prick?”
“Yeah, who else? Why are you cryin— Oh, Harper, no, I didn’t mean you.”
Source: Christmas Wishes
“What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.”
“What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?”
“What kind of a horse?"
"A miraculous kind of horse”
“What kind of a horse’s ass wears a fucking Tilley hat when they’re trying to follow someone?”
Source: The Bean Sidhe
“What kind of a man do you want?" Pratap asked, eagerly.
"Someone to sweep me off my feet." Ajabde chuckled awkwardly avoiding his glance.
"Oh, a sweeper?" He teased with a lingering smile.
"What are you doing?" Ajabde asked as he grabbed her waist to help her off the horse.
"Trying to sweep you off your feet." He made her blush.”
Source: A Royal Accident
“What kind of a man is he,” McKenna interrupted, “that he makes no objection when he sees you being escorted through the village by someone like me?”
“A trusting one. Lord Sandridge and I have a certain understanding—we allow each other as much freedom as is needed. It’s a very enlightened arrangement.”
“Enlightened,” he repeated with ill-concealed contempt. “Sandridge is a fool. And if I were in his place, you wouldn’t even be here.”
“Where would I be, then?” she asked pertly. “At home, I suppose, mending your shirt cuffs?”
“No, in my bed. Under me.”
Source: Again the Magic
“What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?”
Source: Lethal Outlook: A Psychic Eye Mystery
“What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?”
Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“What kind of a moron demands his devotee to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty! What kind of an alcoholic father sends his son to be tortured and nailed on a cross just to prove how much he cares! What kind of a pervert rescues his wife from her abductor only to abandon her, just so his reputation as the ideal king wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman! Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness, nor with the actual creator of the cosmos, even if there is such a thing, at most they reflect the mindset and morality of their time.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“What kind of a moron thinks that a nation grows great by developing the military capacity to destroy another nation! Yet that is the first thing you think of when you hear the term of patriotism. It's time we rise above these outdated notions and customs, and learn to find home in people, not places – in beings, not borders.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“What kind of a person could kill a Black child
and then kill another Black child and then
kill another Black child and then kill another
Black child and then kill another
Black child and then kill another Black
child
and stay above suspicion?
What about the police?
What about somebody Black?
What sixteen year old would say no to a cop?
What seven year old would say no thanks to me?
What is an overreaction to murder?
What kind of a person could kill a Black
child and then kill a Black child and then
kill a Black child?
What kind of a person are you?
What kind of a person am I?
What makes you so sure?
What kind of a person could save a Black child?
What kind of a people will lay down its
life for the lives of our children?
What kind of a people are we?”
“What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman”
Source: The Greatest Knight
“What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?”
“What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.”
“What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."”
“What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?”
Source: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
“What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.”
“What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?”
“What kind of an idiotic question is that?”
“What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?”
“What kind of art do I want to make? What do I stand for? What inspires me? And then to have people in return respond to that... I think that's the greatest thing because throughout dancing, I'm always looking for that.”
“What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears.”
“What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.”
“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.”
“What kind of belt do you have?”