W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.”
“What knowledge can you know than being kind?”
“What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?”
“What Korea and the U.S. both ultimately seek to achieve is the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program.”
“What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
“What labels me, negates me.”
“What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“What lacks discerning eyes does no disservice to you if it passes by without noticing you.”
“What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone”
“What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.”
Source: Messy Spirituality
“What language / do you speak at home? / What is this / flavor called? / How do you say it? / Where are the women?”
Source: To All the Yellow Flowers
“What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.”
“What larks we had," said James.
"When?"
"When we were young."
I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.”
“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”
“What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.”
“What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.”
“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”
“What Lauren and Jesse - the married couple behind Picky Bars, two professional athletic careers, and two kids - really wanted was a way to connect with other folks juggling all of life's craziness while pursuing their passions. It's a real three-ring circus sometimes, but that's what makes it fun, right?!”
“What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.”
“What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?”
“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
“What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.”
“What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.”
“What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?”
“What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.”
“What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.”
“What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.”
Source: Citizenship Papers: Essays
“What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.”
“What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.”
“What least makes a mother is biology.”
“What leaves you both saddens and enriches you, with what you once had, what you will never have again, and in between, the realization that gifts you a wisdom so profound.”
“What leaves you...both saddens and enriches your life, with what you once had, what you will never have again, and in between the realization that gifts you a wisdom so profound..”
“What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.”
“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”
“What led me to Syria in 2013 to rescue my only son from the grips of ISIS? It was genetics and geography and a Moroccan girl and a small crack that opened in my son's mind after a breakup.”
Source: Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son
“What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that.”
“What led to our revolt? Why did our generation suddenly realize that our place in society was changing--and had to change? In part, we were carried by the social and political currents of our time...But even with the social winds in our sails and the women's movement behind us, each of us had to overcome deeply held values and traditional social strictures. The struggle was personally painful and professionally scary. What would happen to us? Would we win our case? Would we change the magazine? Or would we be punished? Who would succeed and who would not? And if our revolt failed, were our careers over--or were they over anyway? We knew that filing the suit legally protected us from being fired, but we didn't trust the editors not to find some way to do us in.
Whatever happened, the immediate result is that it put us all on the line. "The night after the press conference I realized there was no turning back," said Lucy Howard. "Once I stepped up and said I wanted to be a writer, it was over. I wanted to change Newsweek, but everything was going to change.”
Source: The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
“What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores.”
Source: شيكاجو
“What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about — how well its graduates do in the real world — minority students aren’t less qualified. They’re just as successful as white students. And why? Because even though the academic credentials of minority students at Michigan aren’t as good as those of white students, the quality of students at the law school is high enough that they’re still above the threshold. They are smart enough. Knowledge of a law student’s test scores is of little help if you are faced with a classroom of clever law students.”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.”
“What lesson could God have possibly wanted me to learn? How could being a freak teach me about being a better person?
Father Mike replied that God hadn't created me to teach me acceptance, but to help those around me learn it.”
Source: Violent Ends
“What letters in the alphabet face the letters that follow it in a word vs its back against the letters that follow it. Like, “Because” The “B” faces the letters that follow it. But in the word, “dumb” the lowercase “d” has its back against the letters. #ThisIsWhatKeepMeUpAtNight”
“What level of crazy is too much for you? I'm just curious.”
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.”
Source: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
“What liberate us is what we live to serve.”
“What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind.”
“What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.”
Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.”