W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.”
“What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”
“What makes us human is what is delightful”
“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”
“What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.”
“What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.”
Source: Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity
“What makes us most powerful can also kill us.”
Source: Cursed
“What makes us sad sometimes is not bad experience, it is bad thought”
“what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.”
“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.”
“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“What makes us?? (Think Little)
Is it our look??? Is it our emotions??? Is it our thoughts???
What makes us think that when we wake up, we are the same???
What makes us to think that when we teleport we will be the same?”
“What makes us threaten the things we want most?”
Source: Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.”
“What makes voting so hard .It is not the task itself but is the option you are given to choose from. When comes elections In Africa we are choosing between who is a better thief, criminal , not too much corrupt, senior citizen, rather than choosing on who is a better leader. We are choosing on who is less greedy rather than who has more integrity.
It is all about who lies better rather than who can provide what they promised.. To them it is what they can personally benefit if they win rather than what the country can benefit if they win. That is why their win is always our loss. Its sad that we must place our fate and future in the hands of criminals, because good man want nothing to do with politics.”
“What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.”
“What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.”
“What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.”
Source: What Makes Women Happy
“What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.”
“What makes you a champ isn’t found at the starting line or the finish line, but somewhere in between. You’ve got this. Just keep moving forward.”
“What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.”
“What makes you a Man? In My opinion it is the same thing that makes you a woman. It's what makes us all who we are. The capacity to care. If you stop caring, you stop being. The measure of anyone is determined by their capacity to care.”
“What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.”
“What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.”
Source: Witch Week
“What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things.
—Adult Club”
Source: Theories of Everything
“What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.”
“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.”
“What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take care of it? Or is it that you actually love the planet, and regardless of your self-interest and regardless of its instrumental use to you, you want to take care of it?”
“What makes you cherish is what often makes others perish”
“What makes you curious about someone when meeting them for the first time? Do they have a fascination factor? Is there something special about them that stands out? What makes you want to learn more?”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.”
“What makes you different is what makes you beautiful”
“What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.”
“What makes you different, makes you dangerous.”
“What makes you feel alive?
Dean. Dean Cole makes me feel alive.”
Source: Ruckus
“What makes you feel alive?
My family. My home. My men. My belly. I'm alive. And my therapist was right. I am going to live forever.”
Source: Ruckus
“what makes you feel…
and feel alive… how is your breath stolen…
i want to know your soul aesthetic.”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“what makes you feel…
what makes you. feel. alive.
how is your breath stolen.
how. and when.
does this life give you arrhythmia.
what pulls at you so much that it
hurts not to chase it.
the dreams out there, the hopes in here.
the art, the words, the songs…
what shifts you.
that somewhere beautiful in this world
that calls to you in the early light.
those aching things that keep you up
so restless after midnight.
what takes you higher than this world,
what takes you deeper into your soul light…
all of those things…
i want to know. those. things…
show me all of your soul things”
“What makes you go on living? Why don't you kill yourself? Why is all this bearable? What makes you bear it?”
Source: Prater Violet
“What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.”
“What makes you great will not be the envy of others, but admiring of oneself with great contempt for failure.”
“What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.”
“What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.”
“What makes you happy?"
"This," he said simply. "I like being with you.”
Source: Saddle Up
“What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?”
Source: The flight from the enchanter
“What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you.”
“What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.”
“What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.”