W Quotes
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“What's death to a universe so full of life?”
“What's different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us."
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. Let yesterday fade into silence. With the morning light, life offers a fresh beginning—tender and whole.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can’t be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who’re solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning ‘square’ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn’t that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it’s capable of coming up with a solution.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“What’s especially irritating in grammars (have you noticed how exquisitely impossible it is for us to be talking about this?) – the most irritating part of grammars is the chapter on verbs, since these are what give meaning to sentences… An honest sentence should always have any number of possible meanings… Verbs!… A friend of mine who committed suicide – every time I have a longish conversation I suicide a friend – was going to dedicate his life to destroying verbs…
- Why did he commit suicide?
– Wait, I still don’t know… He wanted to discover and develop a method for surreptitiously not completing sentences. He used to say that he was searching for the microbe of meaning… He committed suicide – yes, of course – because one day he realized what a tremendous responsibility he’d assumed… The enormity of the problem made him go nuts…”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”
Source: Losing Faith
“What's exciting about the poems is that by destroying writing you can create new writing.”
Source: (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]
“What’s fair and what’s true often bear no resemblance to each other.”
Source: Shadows
“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”
“What's freedom for? To know eternity.”
“What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.”
“What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don't mean t'other be gone.”
Source: Burning Bright
“What’s getting old like? Burden of thoughts rest deeply, Shadows start to bend.”
“What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes. --Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men”
“What's going down in your brain?" Pigpen asks.
"Who shot me?"
"We don't know." The way he makes direct eye contact, he's not lying.”
Source: Walk the Edge
“What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“What's going on in our world today is not something we can run away from. Therefore the calmest place is the eye of the storm. (...)
Chaos may be swirling all around us but if we stay in the center, obviously also metaphorically the centre of our own Being, that's where we're going to be able to handle everything that's going on, no matter how chaotic it gets. (...)
In the eye of the storm we're not tossed about by what we see.”
“What's going on in that pretty little head of yours?”
Source: The Road To Oblivion
“What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out and sat down.
Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.”
Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,” she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?” She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?” She set her glass down.”
Source: Double Bubble Boil and Trouble
“What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it’s doing.” “Will there be war?” “Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle.” Ravic smiled. “Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present in France and England. And never so few as in Germany.” She remained lying silent for a while. “To think that it should be possible—” she said then. “Yes— it seems so impossible that it will happen some day. Just because one considers it so impossible and doesn’t protect oneself against it.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“What's going on with you? You're moping more than you did when Latrice Royale got kicked off Drag Race.”
Source: History Lessons
“What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able to say your name without saying mine.”
Source: Addicted for Now
“What's going to happen to us?”
Source: Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
“What’s going to happen when they find out what they’re really like? And they have to spend the rest of their lives married to each other?”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“What’s got you smilin’ like a bitch who just had good cock?” I was interrupted by a sexy drawl.
I looked up to see Nash leaning against the door frame, arms crossed in front of him, sexy smirk plastered on his face. He was tall, all muscle and ink; he exuded a couldn’t-give-a-fuck attitude. Nash was one of the cockiest men I had ever met and the women flocked to him.
I rolled my eyes. “Can a woman not smile unless she’s had cock?” I asked.
He uncrossed his arms and pushed away from the door frame; coming towards me, “No, sweet thing, it all comes down to cock.”
“Well, I hate to tell you, Nash, but this woman hasn’t had any today, and yet I am still smiling. I think your theory is a little off.” I loved bantering back and forth with him.
He raised his eyebrows. “J’s fallin’ down on the job there sweetheart. You sure you don’t want to jump ships? I’ve got all you’ll ever need,” he grinned at me, opening his arms wide in an inviting gesture.”
Source: Storm
“What’s government for if not to help those in need?'
'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?”
Source: Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness
“What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.”
“What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.”
Source: There's No Place Like Home
“What's happened is somewhere, along the line, as a society, we confused the notion of 'home' with the possibility of 'an investment opportunity'. What kind of creature wants to live in an 'investment opportunity'? Only man.
The fox has his den. The bee has his hive. The stoat, has, uh... his stoat-hole... but only man chooses to make his nest in an investment opportunity. Mmm, snuggled down in the lovely credit! All warm, in the mortgage payment, mmmmm...”
“What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“What's happened to the world? she was thinking. Everything has turned terrible...and the bits that aren't terrible have gone mad. I don't understand anything anymore.”
Source: Maddigan's Fantasia
“What's happened with humanity,
if was born inhuman man.
26.05.13”
“What's happening?" asked Gabi.
"Everything," I answered, relaxing and relaxing. "Everything at once.”
Source: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
“What's happening? How can the value of life seem so little to so many?”
“What's happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and human sexuality in general have led to harmful assumptions and poor pastoral counsel.”
Source: Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community
“What's happening to me?" she whispers to the quilt. "I'm losing my mind."
Though that implies that I had one to begin with.”
Source: Endgame
“What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow."
"They should when they meet a princess.”
Source: The Undead Next Door
“What's he saying?" Buggy asked, her voice shaky.
"That there's something up in the attic that we should be careful of because it could be dangerous.
"Oh, uh-uh, I'm not going up there," Buggy said, You can send Shaundelle up there, but I'm keeping my little white ass down here.”
Source: Toe to Toe
“What's heartbreaking isn't that we can't be together. It's that now, I know better and now; I will never be able to love you or anyone else in the same way again.”
“What's heavy
Grounds us to the world.”
Source: Duende
“What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.”
Source: Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges
“What's her business here?'
Nesta gave him a secretive smile. 'Witchcraft.'
She could have sworn Cassian muttered a plea to the Mother before he cut in.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“What's his full name again?" Seamus was rubbing his chin.
Dan hesitated, glancing at me and then away. "Bark Wahlberg," he grumbled.”
Source: Marriage of Inconvenience
“What’s-his-name had started out with all the promise of a wild stallion gallop, but he’d ended up more of a gentle trot. I didn’t know if the fault lay with the jockey or the ride, but it had been a long time since I’d seen a finish line.”
Source: The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
“What's-his-name was my ex-boyfriend, whom we did not mention by name, Ever. Not unless you wanted to snakes out of my head a` la Medusa.”
Source: Dim Sum of All Fears
“What's Hogsmeade like? Where did you go?"
By the sound of it- everywhere. Dervish and Banges, the wizarding equipment shop, Zonko's Joke Shop, into the Three Broomsticks for foaming mugs of hot butterbeer, and many places besides.
"The post office, Harry! About two hundred owls, all sitting on shelves, all color-coded depending on how fast you want your letters to get there!"
"Honeydukes has got a new kind of fudge; they were giving out free samples, there's a bit, look-"
"We think we saw an ogre, honestly, they get all sorts at the Three Broomsticks-"
"Wish we could have brought you some butterbeer, really warms you up-”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“What’s important is not avoiding adversity, but how an individual responds to it. You have to develop a mental hardiness that responds to setbacks with energy and confidence.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life