W Quotes
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“What more hurts?...dying? No... being the only one who survived.”
Source: Winchester
“What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women’s secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.”
Source: Rupert of Hentzau
“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”
“What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experimenter, worshipping “fact” because he has abandoned truth, seeing the world as a vast laboratory in which he is free to determine what is “possible”; the autonomous man, pretending to the humility of only asking his “rights,” yet full of the pride that expects everything to be given him in a world where nothing is authoritatively forbidden; the man of the moment, without conscience or values and thus at the mercy of the strongest “stimulus”; the “rebel,” hating all restraint and authority because he himself is his own and only god; the “mass man,” this new barbarian, thoroughly “reduced” and “simplified” and capable of only the most elementary ideas, yet scornful of anyone who presumes to point out the higher things or the real complexity of life.”
Source: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
“What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.”
“What more this solitary bird needs in Life, than the freedom to vagabond? for he’s the loner, waiting to be loved! yearning to be cared— do save him!”
“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.”
“What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.”
“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?”
Source: Helen
“What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?”
“What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?”
“What mortals call Sex is only a manifestation in human life, and in animal and vegetable life, of a certain spasm, a certain delicious shudder, a certain orgasm of a purely psychic nature, which belongs to the Personality of the First Cause.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.”
“What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.”
“What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"”
“What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.”
“What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.”
“What most enlightened people consider as wealth has nothing to do with money. Seeking true wealth may mean seeking deeper relationships, more personal growth, or ways to create more meaning in life. Achieving true wealth means possessing the ability to enjoy the small, ordinary pleasures of life.”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.”
“What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.”
“What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.”
“What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.”
“What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.”
“What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.”
“What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.”
“What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.”
“What most of these doomsday scenarios have gotten wrong is the fundamental idea of economics: people respond to incentives. If the price of a good goes up, people demand less of it, the companies that make it figure out how to make more of it, and everyone tries to figure out how to produce substitutes for it. Add to that the march of technological innovation (like the green revolution, birth control, etc.). The end result: markets figure out how to deal with problems of supply and demand.”
“What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.”
“What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.”
“What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.”
“What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.”
“What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.”
“What most people are scared of isn't really sensuality, but an energy it's been transformed into or labeled as, which is called perversion.”
“What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.”
“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”
“What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.”
“What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.”
“What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“What most people don't realize is that when you decide to write and publish a book, it's not for stardom, or for fame, it's because you have a story that's inside of you that is dying to get out! You don't just come up with it one day, it's a thought that evolves into something unimaginably beautiful...”
Source: As Low As It Gets
“What most people don't understand, or take stock of, is that Failure is a fickle beast. If you're not careful, it can turn on you and varying levels of success will emanate.”
“What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
“What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.”
“What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.”
“What most people find festive-a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on a summer night-I see as a bleak nightmare to be grimly endured. I would sooner put lit cigarettes in my eyes than share a vacation house with a crowd.”
Source: But Enough about Me: From Eighties Geek to Rock 'n' Roll Chic - Adventures in Celebsville
“What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.”
Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition