W Quotes
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“What one wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead”
“What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.”
Source: Finding a Form: Essays
“What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.”
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
“What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.”
“What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.”
“What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'”
“What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't”
“What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.”
“What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.”
Source: DON JUAN
“What options did this frightening country offer its intolerably anxious citizens? They could curl up into total passivity, or they could join a whole that was greater than they were. If any possession could be summarily taken away, no one felt any longer like anything was truly their own. But they could rejoice alongside other citizens that Crimea was 'theirs.' They could fully subscribe to the paranoid worldview in which everyone, led by the United States, was out to weaken and destroy Russia. Paranoia offered a measure of comfort: at least it placed the source of overwhelming anxiety securely outside the person and even the country. It was a great relief to belong, and to entrust authority to someone stronger. The only thing was, belonging itself required vigilance. One had to pay attention: one day Ukraine was where the important war was being fought, the next day it was Syria. In the paranoid worldview, the source of danger was a constantly moving target. One could belong, but one could never feel in control.”
Source: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”
“What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.”
Source: The Sociological Imagination
“What ordinary people have never understood is that reason has an appearance and can be experienced. Reason has many dimensions: reason is thinking, reason is feeling, reason is sensing and reason is intuition. It is two types of judging (thinking and feeling), and two types of perceiving (sensing and intuition). All of this flows from the fact that reason is both syntactic and semantic, and is evolving towards Perfect Reason. Everything is just an aspect of reason. There is nothing other than reason, and everything has a reason. A universe made of reason is ipso facto an intelligent, mental, living universe, imbued with meaning and purpose. A universe made of reason is idealist, not materialist. Science has inverted reality.”
Source: The Book of Mind: Seeking Gnosis
“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”
“What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.”
“What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.”
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness? They are of two sorts: (1) Other human beings who are styled persons. (2) Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things... But is there any reason why we should be suffered to torment them? Not any that I can see. Are there any why we should not be suffered to torment them? Yes, several. The day has been, I grieve to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.”
Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“What Other Can a Man Lay but Tragedy?
What other can a man lay but tragedy?
No other thing would be ripe in time.
Grief is a flower that blooms often,
And sorrow is the rain that waters it sometimes.
Each man reaps what he once sows—
With pain, and some with bitter ease.
The sky above every head of gloom
Grows thicker with clouds and earthly deeds.
The field does not bloom in summer
But on the last day of every man's each.”
Source: The Willow Song
“What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?”
“What other creatures are on your list?"
"Chupacabra."
"I hope it exists. It has the best name.”
“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”
“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?”
“What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?”
“What other half-buried things did I know about my own grief and wife that, if asked about directly, I could surrender? That for several years I kept Clare’s mobile phone active because I didn’t want anyone else to take her phone number. That during the time before I released the number, I sent her texts from work, only to come home and read them on the phone that was always charging by her side of the bed.”
Source: Return to Valetto
“What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?”
Source: My Mother: Demonology
“What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.”
“What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.”
“What other people believe shouldn't (be allowed to) hurt me.”
Source: Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
“What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.”
“What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be”
“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction”
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”
Source: A Life Well Played: My Stories
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.”
“What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What other people think is more important than what we feel.”
“What other people think is their problem.”
“What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.”
“What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.”
“What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.”