W Quotes
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“What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?”
“What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.”
“What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.”
“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”
Source: Killosophy
“What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.”
Source: The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions
“What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.”
Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose
“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.”
Source: Trumpet Blasts, Or Mountain-top Views of Life: Comprising the Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similies, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that During His Whole Phenonomenal Career Have Been Given to the World
“What may worry [Donald] Trump, the latest Gallup poll. It shows just 44 percent of Americans approve of how he's handling the transition, almost 40 points below President [Barack] Obama was before his first inauguration. Even George W. Bush after that bitterly contested 2000 election was at 61 percent.”
“What Mayer did in the thirties― what he was situated to do as a Jew yearning to belong― was provide reassurance against the anxieties and disruptions of the time. He did this by fashioning a vast, compelling national fantasy out of his dreams and out of the basic tenets of his own dogmatic faith― a belief in virtue, in the bulwark of family, in the merits of loyalty, in the soundness of tradition, in America itself.”
Source: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
“What McKenna possessed was far more beguiling than mere physical beauty. She possessed a kindness, a generosity of spirit. Offering him the most dangerous thing of all - hope.”
Source: A Vast and Gracious Tide
“What, Me Worry? Instead of fretting, use your imagination for making love or beauty, or for finding the right allies to help you.”
Source: The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier
“What, Me Worry? Learning to trust is hard, and life¹s daily lessons don¹t always encourage it as a reliable habit. But trust is a prerequisite to virtually all the lessons that we encounter.”
Source: The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier
“What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.”
“What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think how many hours we spend reading the newspaper, gossiping and doing various useless acts! Children we can definitely set aside an hour for sadhana if we really want it. That is our real wealth. If we cannot spare a whole hour at a stretch, keep apart half an hour in the morning and again in the evening.”
“What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.”
“What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking 'what' and 'why' when surrounded by an infinite sky?”
“What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.”
“What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered”
Source: Homology: An Unsolved Problem
“What Medicaid basically does is allows them to choose the two base years that they would calculate current their reimbursement levels on. And they all have per-capita allotments based upon what the states are experiencing today in terms of Medicaid costs. And then those are inflated over the years, the next decade, increased at the rate of inflation. And so they have to figure out how to take those dollars and put them to the best use in the state.”
“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”
“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.”
“What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.”
Source: The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century
“What memories can you dig up that create warm feelings? It could be a childhood memory, something recent, a place, a person, or just a special moment. Take time to savor and reflect on these memories, using all of your 5 senses. These are the real treasures in life!”
Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success
“What memories for mud to have.”
“What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.”
Source: Pollyanna
“What men call accident is God's own part.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.”
“What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.”
“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.”
“What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.”
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.”
“What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”
“What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.”
Source: Paris Spleen, 1869
“What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.”
Source: Poetical works
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.”
Source: Healology
“What men could freely pursue, women had to wait for men to permit them access to.”
“What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.”
Source: Life of George Tyrrell from 1884 to 1909
“What men do matters more than what they know.”
Source: The Sword of the Spirits
“What men don’t realise is that you must tell your woman she is beautiful. She only wants to hear it from you, not from the rest of the world. Their words mean nothing to her. Your words pierce her heart. That’s how you won her and that’s how you will lose her.”
Source: Reham Khan
“What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.”
“What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.”
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
“What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.”
“What men have seen they know. . . .”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.”
Source: Lifted Masks
“What men in all the world have shown such daring?”