W Quotes
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“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”
“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”
Source: Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham
“What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.”
“What makes me a proper man! Blogging out a detail information about myself? Or just tweeting some real shit out from my mind. Its bit crazy what makes me a perfect but I do know what really makes me good.”
“What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.”
“What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.”
“What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.”
“What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?”
“What makes me believe in rebirth is, our life after the death of our loved ones.”
“What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.”
“What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.”
“What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.”
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.”
“What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.”
“What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.”
“What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.”
“What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.”
“What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.”
“What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.”
“What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.”
“what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings...,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn”
“What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.”
“What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.”
“What makes me me when technology can complete my next sentence, choice, feeling, or action?”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“What makes me me when technology can finish my next thought?”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.”
“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself”
Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.”
“What makes me sad in fashion is that everyone is looking for trends. A trend is one thing. Timeless is another. In 20 years, I've seen so many trends. It makes me sad when people go for the trend versus quality or vision. Or when people wear something so basic just to make sure they're considered cool, like a white t-shirt.”
“What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.”
“What makes me say "wow" is usually something I haven't encountered, in a new way... something I haven't encountered before or something I have encountered that I see in a new way.”
“What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.”
“What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!”
“What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.”
“What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.”
“What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.”
“What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.”
“What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded”
“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”
“What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.”
“What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.”
“What makes networking work is that it sets up win-win situations in which all parties involved get to take something home. Networking is a sharing process. Until you understand that, you won't have much of a network.”
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
Source: Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”
“What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.”
“What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn't become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.”