W Quotes
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“What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.”
“What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.”
Source: AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself
“What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.”
“What other people think when they see your face — that is the task of other people and is not something you have any control over.”
Source: The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“What other people thought of her didn't matter. All that mattered was than she was unique for a reason. That she was herself.”
Source: Enhanced
“What other places are there in the world than those discovered on a lover’s body?”
“What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?”
“A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
Source: Scavenger Hunt
“What other secrets are you hiding behind those sparkling eyes?"
He grinned. “You have my heart. That’s where I hide all my secrets.”
“Then I guess I don’t have the key.”
“Are you kidding? You forged the key.”
Source: The Curse of Tenth Grave
“What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?”
“What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.”
“What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.”
“What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.”
“What other things? Can you tell me some of them?’ How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What other woman would dare to draw blood with a kiss? He saw in Plath the same things she had found in his early poems–a fascination with what he would later call "positive violence,”
Source: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
“What others can't see, but you can is the Vision. Purchasing an SUV is not a vision.
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“What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.”
“What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.”
Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir
“What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.”
Source: It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life
“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”
“What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.”
“What others say or do is a projection of their own dreams and their own insecurities. Once you fully realise that, you can let go and begin to focus on your own dreams and succeed.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“What others see in you now is just a MILD chapter of you; the WILD version of your brand is yet to be visible. Just dare and will show up!”
“What others think about you is none of your business.”
“What others think is their business. It's your birthright to do things you love. Do it today.”
“What others think means nothing in the pursuit of your dreams.”
“What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.”
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”
“What others think of you is none of your business.”
“What others think of you is not as important as what you think of yourself.”
“What others think of you, or what they say or do to you, is their business; not yours! They have a right to their opinions. And you must just let them be. It is when you try to change their opinion of you that you grieve – and often suffer. Instead, be unmoved by their choices, their utterances, and just be true to yourself. You will then be fearless and unaffected by all that is happening around you.”
“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
Source: Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
“What others wallow in daily and do not appreciate, the poet ever with his ears to the ground would discern and acknowledge in just a moment. Children are poets. Watch them at play and you’d learn to appreciate so many things you’ve already taken for granted.”
Source: Gamblers Make Better Lovers
“What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.”
“What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”
“What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.”
Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha
“What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity. To live, to live just as we do, that—if we could only realize it—is the purpose and the crown of living. We must seek improvement; we must be dissatisfied with ourselves; that is the appointed attitude, the histrionic pose, that is to keep the ball rolling. But while we feel this dissatisfaction we are perfectly satisfactory, and while we play our game and constantly lose it, we are winning the game for God.”
Source: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante And Goethe
“What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.”
“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.”
“What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.”
“What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for us. While we certainly don't want to see our friends suffer, friendship isn't about protecting each other from pain so much as it is about helping each other to become what God has called us to be.”
Source: Already There: Letting God Find You
“What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.”
“What our culture lacks are honest messages about what it really means to be a healthy human being. Or how you make humans grow.”
Source: Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
“What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.”
“What our enemies have begun, we will finish.”
“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”
Source: Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book
“What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.”