W Quotes
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“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.”
“What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.”
“What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.”
“What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?”
Source: FLOWER AND THORN
“What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.”
Source: The Last Song
“What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.”
“What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.”
“What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.”
“What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!”
“What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.”
“What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.”
“What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed”
“What progress requires inexorably of human beings and of continents is that they should renounce their strangeness, that they should break with mystery; and somewhere along that road is inscribed inexorably the end of the last elephant. The cultivated lands must encroach upon the forests, and the roads will bite more and more deeply into the quietude of the great herds. There will be less and less room
for natural splendor. A pity.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
Source: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)
“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”
“What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.”
“What properly constitutes the study of Zen in the Zendo life is to study on the one hand the writings or sayings or in some cases the doings of the ancient masters and on the other to practise meditation. This practising is called in Japanese to do zazen, while the studying of the masters consists in attending the discourses given by the teacher of the Zendo known as Rōshi.”
Source: The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
“What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.”
“What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.”
“What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.”
Source: The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon
“What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.”
Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“what pudor pejorocracy affronts
how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below”
Source: Selected Poems of Charles Olson
“What punishments of God are not gifts?”
“What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!”
“What purpose will your death serve?"
"It will serve to prove that you do not control this kingdom. It will serve to prove that not everyone will bow down to you. You think to rule us with fear, but you cannot. I will never renounce my beliefs, or my husband.”
Source: My Lady Jane
“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
“What pushed you to be political?
I’ve always been interested in politics, but when I first got out of college I just wanted to have fun and do non-political work. What happened was the Bush vs Gore election and the Supreme Court [decision]. That was the event that really shocked me into starting to do political cartoons. It was just so outrageous at the time. Then 9/11 and the Iraq War. I prefer doing a mix of straightforward political cartoons and more cultural cartoons about trends and facial hair and things like that. Now I feel silly doing a strip about beards. Maybe things will calm down and I can go back to doing cartoons about facial hair. As time went on and politics became more and more dire, that’s what really sent me down that path. Also I started picking up more and more clients that are explicitly political, like dailykos and The Progressive Magazine and once in a while The Nation will run a cartoon. That pushed me in a more political direction as well.
(Interview with Comicsbeat)”
“What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.”
“What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!”
“What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.”
“What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love”
“What puzzled them was the incredible precision. It was as though the blade had delicately stopped the heart rather than cause massive blood loss.”
Source: The Mark of Eternity
“What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.”
“What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.”
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”
“What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.”
“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“What questions are you pondering about the you you say you are? When you read your questions aloud, what themes do you hear? What emotion do you feel and where do you feel it most in your body?”
“What questions are you still pondering about your pandemic? When you read your questions aloud, what themes do you hear? What emotion do you feel and where do you feel it most in your body?”
“What questions do I want my audience to ask?”
Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“What quick wit is found in sudden straits!”
“What r u doing now?
I'm beating my dad at poker.
Picturing him with his family, I smiled.
Getting ready for bed.
Wish I was there.
My eyes widened. What the what?
Wait r u naked?
No!!! I sent back. Perv.
Damn, At least I have my imagination.
That's all you will ever have.
We'll c.
No you won't.”
Source: Wait for You
“What race subjects should our students be engaging? Which stories should be told? Which histories examined? Considering this book's chief assertion--there is a difference between 'light' and 'fire,' between empty and meaningful--how do teachers pick the proper fuel for their students' race discourse?”
Source: Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom
“What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.”
“What Raevan did was in the name of survival, but it almost cost him his life if Anya hadn’t been there. Raevan was a slave to Sulan’s bidding, and Matthias couldn’t blame him completely. But his loyalty was misplaced.”
Source: Cove of Storms
“What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
“What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.”