W Quotes
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“What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.”
Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy
“What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.”
“What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred.”
Source: Prayer for Beginners
“What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.”
Source: After Virtue
“What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.”
“What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.”
“What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.”
“What our love dreads the most
is the fear of never loving -
not the thought of following
the wrong heart.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“What our marriages need to flourish are two good heads, not one head and a "neck".”
“What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.”
“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be”
Source: The Green Mile
“What our profession is all about is interacting with people.”
“What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.”
“What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.”
“What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.”
Source: Dilthey's Dream: Essays on Human Nature and Culture
“What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.”
Source: The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion
“What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.”
“What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq....They target and kill journalists ... uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.”
“What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”
“What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for twenty-five years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created - that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand.”
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”
“What Pa did doesn't represent all of who he is. There's a bigger picture. Amma said something to me once, when I found a drawing someone had done of her when she was a teenager: In life we wear a hundred faces - the bawling infant, the happy child, the starry-eyed youth. Each face belongs to a different life.
I didn't fully understand it then. But maybe I do now. A lifetime is made up of dozens of lives, tied together only by shared memory. Who I was when I was a baby isn't the same person I was at age ten, much less who I am now. Who Pa was in his twenties isn't the same man he is today. And I have to believe that the man he is today shouldn't have to die for the mistakes of the other man who wore his face twelve years ago.”
Source: The Darkening
“What painting is, is exactly what people see.”
“What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.”
“What paralyses you with fear is someone's ladder for a living.”
“What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.”
“What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”
“What parent wants to send their child to murder camp?”
Source: Blood in the Water
“What parents and teachers and caregivers did with me that actually worked and a lot of that was the old fashion 50s upbringing. They just gave the instruction when I did something wrong - life was more structured. So basically it's [my work] based on experiences with me that worked and it was teachers and parents that made me have those experiences.”
“What parents needed, I believed, wasn't another book about how they had to calm down and take a break. What they needed was an actual break from the deluge of parenting books.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”
“What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves.”
Source: Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
“What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.”
“What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.”
“What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?”
Source: Up Till Now
“What part of no don't you understand. To put it plain and simple, I'm not into one night stands.”
“What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?”
“What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”
“What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.”
“What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.”
“What parts of ourselves had we offered up freely, and which had slipped away unnoticed, like change from a pocket?”
Source: The Time Traveler
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win all while those who compromised their intellectual integrity lose everything.
There are many other possibilities. There might be many gods, including one who favors people like Pascal; but the other gods might overpower or outvote him, à la Homer. Nietzsche might well have applied to Pascal his cutting remark about Kant: when he wagered on God, the great mathematician 'became an idiot.”
Source: Critique of Religion and Philosophy
“What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.”
Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition
“what passed for useful information sharing within an organization was really just bureaucratic phatic of people protecting their position, looking for praise, projecting criticism, setting up positions of non-responsibility for upcoming failures and calamities, that were both entirely predictable, but seemingly completely unavoidable and telling each other what they all already knew. The trick was to be able to reengage quickly and seamlessly without allowing anyone to know that you stopped listening properly, shortly after the speaker had first opened their mouth.”
Source: Surface Detail
“What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut