W Quotes
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“What perishes is only really real.
I twist the dial and you are everywhere.”
“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.”
“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.”
“What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?”
“What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?”
“What persons are by starts they are by nature.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes
“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.”
Source: Ideology: An Introduction
“What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?”
Source: Pleasures of Literature
“What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?”
Source: Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
“What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.”
“What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.”
“What pillow can one have like a good conscience?”
Source: Tortilla Flat
“What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?”
Source: Yankee from Olympus
“What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.”
“What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.”
“What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.”
“What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!”
“What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?”
“What place, then, for a creator?”
“What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.”
“What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.”
“What plan of action? What can be done? We can’t fight the whole society.”
“I was thinking we could use you as bait and draw them into a trap,” Gregori said, straight-faced.
Gary’s eyes widened in alarm. “I’m not sure I like that plan. Sounds a little risky to me.” He looked at Savannah for support.
Gregori shrugged his broad shoulders in a casual shrug. “I do not see a risk.”
Savannah’s small clenched fist thumped his stomach in retaliation. Gregori glanced down at her with surprise. “Is this when I am supposed to say ouch?”
Savannah and Gary exchanged a long, mournful groan. “Why did I want him to have a sense of humor?” she wondered.
Gary shook his head. “Don’t be asking me. You created the monster.”
Source: Dark Magic
“What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)”
Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick
“What Planned Parenthood is doing is not the faith that I believe in, but Jesus never ordered anyone to be killed and he never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically. But Mohammed did and there is a big difference in this.”
“What plant?'
'Sorry?'
"What plant did Mum leave, at the grave?'
Sally went to the open window and reached through to pick a peach-colored flower from a blooming bush. She offered it to Alice.
'Beach hibiscus,' Alice cried softly, remembering the flower crown her mother made when she was a child. Remembering its meaning in the Thornfield Dictionary. Love binds us in eternity.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.”
Source: Sophie's World
“What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.”
“What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.”
“What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.”
“What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.”
“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“What pleasure is there in seeing new lands? Or in surveying cities and spots of interest? All your bustle is useless. Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will
satisfy you. [...] The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“What pleasures are you living for?”
“What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?”
Source: The myth of the machine
“What poet would not grieve to see
His brother write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.”
Source: The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841
“What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’”
“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.”
“What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.”
“What poets must seem to display, besides the objects imitated, is a beautiful negligence.”
Source: Zibaldone
“What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?”
“What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?”
Source: Startide Rising
“What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?”
Source: Magical Thinking
“What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in”
“What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.”
“What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.”
“What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.”
“What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.”