W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.”
“What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.”
“What Polybius said next has great importance for those who wish to understand the situation of the United States in our time. According to Polybius, “When a commonwealth, after warding off many great dangers, has arrived at a high pitch of prosperity, it is evident that, by the lengthened continuance of great wealth, the manner of life of its citizens will become more extravagant….” He further suggested that this “extravagance of living will prove the beginning of a deterioration.” Flattered by office-holders who say the people are being “cheated” by the avaricious few, the public will direct their “passionate resentment” and anger at those natural leaders who previously brought prosperity to the state. Urged on by demagogues, the people will refuse to follow the laws; neither will they be content with equality under the law.”
“What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.”
“What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.”
Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.”
“What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up”
“What pornography has done is to make life far harder for those women in the front line of sexual servitude in that men now expect prostitutes - not just *civilian* women - to act like porn stars. The repulsive reviews of punters on various online forums bear this out as women are rebuked most often for "staying still" and "looking sad" rather than pretending to enjoy being penetrated by strangers as porn performers do.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”
“What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“What position do I occupy inside her consciousness, Rika wondered, as the woman she hurt so thoroughly-- the woman she let in, and then succeeded in ruining?
But then, she asked herself, was I ruined? In the end, it was probably correct to say that Kajii hadn't even succeeded in doing that. 'You can't even be properly ruined!' Kajii had once bellowed at her, maliciously. The people who had wished not only for Kajii's ruin but Rika's as well must have been trembling in dissatisfaction and despair. And yet, however much scorn Kajii might pour on her way of life, which consisted in proceeding clumsily forward, stopping and starting, changing course as she went, Rika no longer had any intention of altering it. Now that she was able to produce with her own two hands what she felt to be lacking, she sensed that tomorrow and the day after would, if anything, be better than today.”
Source: Butter
“What positive change? Why didn't we hear a word about all of Hillary Clinton's good works for the Clinton charitable foundation? I mean, you would think that's where it would all be.But we didn't hear about it.”
“What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.”
“What possessed us? We were so happy! Why, then, did we take the stake of all we had and place it all on this outrageous gamble of having a child? Of course you consider the very putting of that question profane. Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“What possesses the poor souls? Why this mad desire
To get back to the light?”
Source: Aeneid Book VI
“What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate”
“What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.”
Source: Are Women Human?
“What potentially happens to our belongings when it goes pass our idea of a "use by" date.”
“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?”
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“What power, despite being an easy target for hate with their lilting smiles and captivating stares, did they truly have? They were used, and then discarded at her own disposal.
The thought makes her stomach turn.
The influence of the east seemed to have seeped through after all—for women were always the easiest to blame in the end.”
Source: Hymn of The Night
“What power has law where only money rules?”
“What power has love but forgiveness?”
Source: Illuminations: images by Oriole Farb Feshbach for the poem
“What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?”
Source: Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry
“What power have dreams in hell?"
"What power would HELL have if those here imprisoned were NOT able to DREAM of HEAVEN?”
Source: The Sandman #4: Hope in Hell
“What power is higher than the power of purity?”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.”
“What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”
“What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.”
“What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.”
Source: Moral and Political Philosophy
“What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?”
“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”
Source: John Dryden
“What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.”
Source: The freedom philosophy
“What predominates in Italy is that destitute proletariat to which Marx and Engels, and, following them, the whole school of German social democrats, refer with the utmost contempt. They do so completely in vain, because here, and here alone, not in the bourgeois stratum of workers, is to be found the mind as well as the might of the future social revolution.”
Source: Statism and Anarchy
“What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.”
“What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.”
“What presence must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.”
Source: Richard II
“What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.”
“What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting federal funding for stem cell research, but I realize that many good, moral people are opposed to this, and I don't take that lightly." I think we can be more civil and empathetic in our discussions of public policy, and I hope my book can be a contribution to that tone.”
“What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?”
“What President Trump is doing is, he wants to get rid of that Obamacare penalty almost immediately, because that is something that is really strangling a lot of Americans to have to pay a penalty for not buying.”
“What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!”
“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me.”
Source: Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?”
“What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”
“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
“what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about”
Source: We: New Edition