W Quotes
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“What raises my doubts, and what still troubles and haunts me, is a sort of deliberate lack of precision in the sonnet “Vowels,” or perhaps even a conscious casualness and some subversion lurking in this masterpiece, undermining my theory in a perfidious way, as I have reason to suspect that Rimbaud couldn’t care less whether “A” was black or white.”
Source: Adieu, Rimbaud!
“What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.”
“What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.”
Source: Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht
“What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.”
“What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.”
Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems
“What rationalism from d’Alembert to Dawkins is loath to acknowledge is that human rationality is a corporeal one. We think as we do roughly because of the kind of bodies we have, as Thomas Aquinas noted. Reason is authentically rational only when it is rooted in what lies beyond itself. It must find its home in what is other than reason, which is not to say in what is inimical to it. Any form of reason which grasps itself purely in terms of ideas, and then fumbles for some less cerebral way in which to connect with the sensory world, is debilitated from the outset.”
Source: Culture and the Death of God
“What ravaged my mind was the thought.
The thought of you.”
Source: Wine, Fire, Satin, Dew
“What’re you afraid of? Everything. I’m scared I’m not living my life to my full potential. I’m scared I’m wasting my life when I’m meant to be doing something else, something more . . .”
Source: Felix Ever After
“What’re you doin’ up so early?”
“Says the rancher,” [Lainie] replied dryly.
“Funny. Maybe me ’n’ Kyle had plans for this morning.” [Hank] waggled his eyebrows.
“Maybe you and Kyle should’ve gotten up sooner.” She sipped her coffee. “The early cowboy gets to stick his worm in the cowgirl and all that.”
Source: Corralled
“What’re you doing?” I asked.
“Walking next to the street,” he said offhandedly.
“Why?”
“It’s safer for you.”
Source: The Soulmate Theory
“What're you reading?"
"Gertrude Stein."
I shook my head. I'd never heard of her.
"The poet?" he asked. "You know, 'A rose is a rose is a rose'?"
I shook my head again.
"During the last year of her life, my mother became obsessed with her," Grant said. "She'd spent most of her life reading the Victorian poets, and when she found Gertrude Stein, she told me she was a comfort."
"What does she mean, 'A rose is a rose is a rose'?" I asked. Snapping the biology book shut, I was confronted with the skeleton of a human body. I tapped the empty eye socket.
"That things just are what they are," he said.
" 'A rose is a rose.' "
" 'Is a rose,' " he finished, smiling faintly.
I thought about all the roses in the garden below, their varying shades of color and youth. "Except when it's yellow," I said. "Or red, or pink, or unopened, or dying."
"That's what I've always thought," said Grant. "But I'm giving Ms. Stein the opportunity to convince me.”
Source: The Language of Flowers
“What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.”
“What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?”
“What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.”
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed”
“What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history
“What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?”
“What reality was ever made by realists?”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel
“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
“What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.”
“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”
“What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.”
“What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.”
“What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and being very sad and being poor and having to sit with that. I think that's where the blues comes from.”
“What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.”
“What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.”
“What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.”
“What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.”
“What really counts in a new market is not your past successes but your adaptability and learning capacity.”
Source: Go Glocal: The Definitive Guide to Success in Entering International Markets
“What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.”
“What really defines us is 50% what is said about us when we are not in the room, and 50% by what we say about others who are not in the room.”
“What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.”
Source: Civilization in the United States
“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”
“What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman.”
“What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.”
“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.”
“What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.”
“What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.”
“What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.”
“What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.”
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
Source: The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
“What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.”
“What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself. Part of what I was trying to do was to make the decision to go into business and find the guts to see it through. I was told that when I went in to see the bankers that I was supposed to be very muted, that I was supposed to blend in, that I was supposed to have the typical drab suit on.”
“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.”