W Quotes
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“What remains is solitude.”
Source: Marlene
“What remains is what you can’t escape.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“What remains of the world at the end?” She asked him.
“The noise of machines, newspapers, bombs, the craziness in the big cities, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow. And then, what remains? What remains, my dear, will never be the world, but only the gods.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”
“What remains to be dealt with is to move from crisis management to a definition of common goals, from the solution of strategic controversies to their avoidance. Is it possible to evolve a genuine partnership and a world order based on cooperation? Can China and the United States develop genuine strategic trust?”
Source: On China
“What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.”
Source: The Prince
“What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without overwhelming force.”
“What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.”
“What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.”
“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.”
“What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.”
“What renders you incapable of such a rudeness, is nothing but a regard to the general rules of civility and hospitality, which prohibit it. … But if without regard to these general rules, even the duties of politeness, which are so easily observed, and which one can scarce have any serious motive to violate, would yet be so frequently violated, that what would become of the duties of justice, of truth, of chastity, of fidelity, which it is often so difficult to observe, and which there may be so many strong motives to violate? But upon the tolerable observance of these duties, depends the very existence of human society, which would crumble into nothing if mankind were not generally impressed with a reverence for those important rules of conduct.”
Source: Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: Ii. Astronomical Inquiries; Iii. Formation of Languages; Iv. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and ... the External Senses; Ix. English and Ita
“What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat
“What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.”
“What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?”
“What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.”
“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.”
“What resists being commodified is usually what keeps us human.”
“What resists, persists.”
“What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.”
“What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.”
“What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor”
“What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
“What rich irony, that sin claims to be self-serving, when all it results in is the ultimate destruction of the self.”
Source: More than Answers
“What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?”
“What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.”
“What right do I have to the blessings I’ve received? None. They are not a right—they are a gift.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?”
“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!”
“What right does a society have to call itself human, if it does not act like one, instead keeps quarreling and slaughtering in the name of the petty differences that they themselves have created!”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?”
“What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.”
“What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.”
“What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?”
Source: The House of Mirth
“What right had they to make me suffer like that?”
Source: Black Beauty
“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”
“What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.”
“What right has anyone to say
That I
Must throw out pieces of my heart
For pay?”
Source: The Collected Poems
“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?”
Source: Middlemarch
“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”
Source: Works
“What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.”
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
“What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.”
“What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“What Rilke said: Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.”
“What rivalry? I win all the matches.”