W Quotes
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“What mistakes have you made more than once?”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say "no," which is something girls - we're not always good at saying "no." We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, "Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain." It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do, and what kind of work I wanted to do.”
“What modern art has to do in the service of culture is so to rearrange the details of modern life, so to reflect it, that it may satisfy the spirit. And what does the spirit need in the face of modern life? The sense of freedom. That naive, rough sense of freedom, which supposes man's will to be limited, if at all, only by a will stronger than his, he can never have again. The attempt to represent it in art would have so little verisimilitude that it would be flat and uninteresting. The chief factor in the thoughts of the modern mind concerning itself is the intricacy, the universality of natural law, even in the moral order. For us, necessity is not, as of old, a sort of mythological personage without us, with whom we can do warfare: it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network, subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world. Can art represent men and women in these bewildering toils so as to give the spirit at least an equivalent for the sense of freedom? Certainly, in Goethe's romances, and even more in the romances of Victor Hugo, there are high examples of modern art dealing thus with modern life, regarding that life as the modern mind must regard it, yet reflecting upon blitheness and repose. Natural laws we shall never modify, embarrass us as they may; but there is still something in the nobler or less noble attitude with which we watch their fatal combinations. In those romances of Goethe and Victor Hugo, in some excellent work done after them, this entanglement, this network of law, becomes the tragic situation, in which certain groups of noble men and women work out for themselves a supreme Denouement. Who, if he saw through all, would fret against the chain of circumstance which endows one at the end with those great experiences?”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.”
Source: Bourgeois
“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”
Source: Wicked Becomes You
“What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.”
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?”
“What molds us is what maims us.”
“What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.”
“What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.”
“What moments divine , what rapture serene.”
“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.”
Source: From Pole to Pole
“What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.”
“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.”
“What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?”
Source: The Eyes & the Impossible
“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.”
“What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!”
Source: Points of View
“What moral to draw, then, of the nonexistence of an innermost planet and the universal triumph of general relativity? At least this: Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every claim is provisional, which is to say each is incomplete in some small or, occasionally, truly consequential way. But in the midst of the fray, it is impossible to be sure what any gap between knowledge and nature might mean. We know now that Vulcan could never have existed; Einstein has shown us so. But no route to such certainty existed for Le Verrier, nor for any of his successors over the next half century. They lacked not facts, but a framework, some alternate way of seeing through which Vulcan's absence could be understood.”
Source: The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
“What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.”
“What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.”
“What more can be said for the sake of our Nation than a simple wish, a humble hope, that the future not forsake this experiment in Democracy at this crucial time of need. Let us lean into these winds of change and finally create a Nation not conceived in mere words but made manifest in deeds, through the rekindled will of a great Nation.”
“What more can I be doing to facilitate the team's progress and minimize its setbacks?”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!”
“What more can the poem do? O Love, did you know that Czeslaw Milosz was right when he argued ‘What is poetry that cannot save nations or people?’ You are my nation. I only wanted to write poems to save you.”
Source: Death Prefers the Minor Keys
“What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!”
“What more could a person want? More than partner, community, and career? There is a life beyond. Much more, much less. There is a flame which both feeds you and burns you up.”
Source: Purnima
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between daytime gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of His works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
Source: Les miserables
“What More Could I Ask For?
Great blessing of my life
When I see you smile
I realize all the time
How favoured I am that you are mine
Thank you for being on my side
My beautiful sunshine
Shining star in the night
Bright light in the dark
Greatest delight
You make my world a better place
And you bring so much peace
My strength when I am weak
For you, I stay on my knees
I wish you would see how it feels
As I walk on the streets
Knowing that you are a part of me
Of you, I am proud indeed
As a Mother, I still wonder
What I have done
To be graced with a special gift
Altogether treasured
I know God has been kind
To give me such a child
What more could I ask for?”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“What More Could I Ask For?
Greatest blessing of my life
When I see you smile
I realise all the time
How favoured I am that you are mine
Thank you for being on my side
My beautiful sunshine
Shining star at night
Bright light in the dark
You make my world a better place
And you bring me so much peace
My strength when I am weak
For you, I stay on my knees
Wish you would see how it feels
As I walk on the streets
Knowing you are a part of me
Of you, I am proud indeed
As a Mother, I still wonder
What I have done
To be graced with such a special gift
Altogether treasured
My place of comfort
I know God has been kind
By giving me such a child
What more could I ask for?”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldn’t make sense to myself or to the world outside.”
“What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.”
“What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?”
“What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever." Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.”
Source: Awakened: A House of Night Novel
“What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?”
“What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.”
“What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.”
“What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange to say, there is. Written down in the Manual, on file at the War Department. Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of mar-kets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“What more do you want from me? Do you want me l to say
that I love you, that I’m in love with you? Because it’s true,
all of it. I know this with every single fiber of my being. And
nothing and no one can change that fact because it’s true,
and it’s never going to stop being true. Even on my very last
breath, it will always be you, Rory. Always!”
Source: Broken Heir
“What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...
“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”
“What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to he also without depth?”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?”