W Quotes
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“What lies ahead is going to be very difficult. Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has its cunning way of finding our weakest spot.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What lies ahead of you is better than what you have already experienced.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.”
“What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!”
“What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“What lies at the root of our unenlightened existence is our fundamental misconception of the ultimate nature of reality. Therefore, by cultivating correct insight into true nature of reality, we begin the process of undoing unenlightened existence and set in motion the process of liberation. Samsara and nirvana are distinguished on the basis of whether we’re in a state of ignorance or wisdom. As the Tibetan masters say, when we’re ignorant, we’re in samsara; when we develop wisdom, we’re liberated. The ultimate antidote for eliminating fundamental ignorance is the wisdom realizing emptiness. It is this emptiness of mind that is the final nirvana.”
Source: Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
“What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.”
Source: The last battle
“What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.”
“What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!”
“What lies behind this tendency to read things as part of a destiny? Perhaps only its opposite, the anxiety of contingency, the fear that the little sense there is in our lives is merely created by ourselves, that there is no scroll (and hence no preordained face awaiting) and that what may or may not be happening to us (whom we may or may not be meeting on airplanes) has no sense beyond what we choose to attribute to it - in short, the anxiety that there is no God to tell our story and hence assure our loves.”
Source: Essays in Love
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.”
Source: How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement
“What lies behind us may be mighty. What lies before us may be mightier. But what lies within us is the mightiest of all! Christ within us is the hope of Glory!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.”
Source: Dark Inside
“What lies beneath the surface?
Of an ocean? Life. Mystery. Fish with eyes.
Of the floor? A ceiling of a floor. Or earth that has not seen sunshine in a while.
Of the skin? Organs. Veins. Blood. Disorders.
Of the mind? Thoughts. Dreams. Wisps of memories.
Of a leaf? Cells. Sunshine. Life.
Of the sky? You. Me. And the only world we have ever known.”
“What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.”
Source: The Eternity Cure
“What lies between strangers?
Distance
(Paper Balls)”
Source: UNSETTLED
“What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.”
“What lies between you and your success are your thoughts, words, choices, and actions; when you get them right, you will walk into a successful life.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“What lies in bed, and stands in bed?
First white, then red
The plumper it gets
The better the old woman likes it?"
"A dork! Crude, Roland! But I like it! I LIKE IT!"
"Your answer is wrong. A good riddle is sometimes a puzzle in words, like Jake's about the river, but sometimes it's more like a magician's trick, making you look in one direction while it's going somewhere else."
"It's a double."
"Is it a strawberry? Of course it is. It's like the fire-riddle. There's a metaphor hidden inside it. Once you understand the metaphor, you can solve the riddle.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“What lies in being a poet when you are no mad-man?”
“What lies north of the North Pole?”
Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
“What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.”
“What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”
“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”
Source: The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge
“What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.”
“What life means has individual answers for each of us.”
“What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.”
“What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.”
Source: Orphan Number Eight
“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“What light through yonder window breaks?”
“What like a bullet can undeceive!”
Source: Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.”
“What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
changes in the narrative-line.”
“What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)”
Source: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.”
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.”
“What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.”
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”
“What litters the forest floor each autumn is the story of a hundred million sacrifices, for without the death of the leaves there would be no forest to sacrifice for. And without something to sacrifice for, there is nothing to live for.”
“What little I know of philosophy and psychology wasn't gathered from books, but from the quiet observation of three things: how a man treats himself, how he treats his neighbour, and how he treats the earth beneath his feet.”
“What little light was left inside me flickered out.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale
“What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.”
“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.”
“What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.”