W Quotes
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“What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.”
“What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.”
“What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities”
“What screamed self-care more than adorable food and reliving your life- defining trauma?”
Source: Crazed Candy
“What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“What scum respectable people are!”
“What sealed the deal for me was that the cloak wouldn't come off without a generous donation of my tears. Those used to be almost impossible for me to summon, I admit, until I watched Field of Dreams. When Kevin Costner asks his dad at the end if he'd like to have a catch, I just completely lose my shit.”
Source: Hounded
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.”
“What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.”
“What secrets?” Eena blurted out.
Kira answered the question by defensively listing them out on her fingers. “How about the fact that Derian was coming for you in a few short days, or the fact that Gemdorin was forcing you to search for some magic gem we were all unaware existed. How about the knowledge of your unusual powers that you stupidly used to infect the Ghengats, which was also a secret you kept to yourself until it was discovered by Gemdorin, making it too late for us to do anything about preventing you from being beaten half to death! You hide things as if you think your abilities are so superior to what the rest of us can possibly contribute!”
Eena shook her head adamantly. “That’s not what I think…”
“It’s how you behave. It’s how you come across to everyone. Your selfish actions speak a helluva lot louder than your hollow words or your foolish intentions.”
The young queen felt a rise of tears burn her eyes. “My intentions are not foolish. All I ever meant to do was protect those around me.”
“By keeping us in the dark? That’s not protection, girl. That’s neglect.”
Eena sniffled as fresh waterworks ran down her cheeks. Her face twisted up, confused. “People get hurt when they’re involved in my problems.”
“In our problems.”
“No! My problems!” she insisted.
Kira threw up her arms. “There you go being all selfish again!”
Eena sucked in a ragged breath, almost crying out the next question. “How do you figure that’s being selfish? I’m trying to keep everyone safe!”
“And what did I just get through telling you about that idiotic notion?”
Eena looked up at the ceiling. She raised her palms in frustration as she bawled. “I don’t know what else to do! What do you want from me?”
Kira stepped forward and knelt in front of her tortured sister. Her hand rested gently on Eena’s knee as the Mishmorat’s gruff countenance melted. A softer, kinder voice answered the desperate question.
“We want you to understand that the world doesn’t rest on your shoulders. You’re only responsible for a small portion of what happens daily on Moccobatra. Life isn’t dependent upon you alone, Sha Eena. It’s dependent upon all of us. We’re a team. We work together doing our own part. We need you to be part of our team, not a single entity existing on your own.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“What seduces never seems to be where it is thought.”
“What seeds you plant in your heart is what you reap in your life. Plant the seeds of love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, and faith.”
“What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.”
“What seem to be vestiges of the Jim Crow world in a sense are just that. But passage of the old order's segregationist trappings throws into relief the deeper reality that what appeared and was experienced as racial hierarchy was also class hierarchy. Now blacks occupy positions in the socioeconomic order previously available only to whites, and whites occupy those previously identified with blacks. And the dynamics of superordination and subordination, patterns of appropriation and distribution, and dominant understandings of which material interests should drive policy remain much as they were.
This underscores the point that the core of the Jim Crow order was a class system rooted in employment and production relations that were imposed, stabilized, regulated and naturalized through a regime of white supremacist law, practice, custom, rhetoric, and ideology. Defeating the white supremacist regime was a tremendous victory for social justice and egalitarian interests. At the same time, that victory left the undergirding class system untouched and in practical terms affirmed it. That is the source of that bizarre sensation I felt in the region a generation after the defeat of Jim Crow. The larger takeaway from this reality is that a simple racism/anti-racism framework isn't adequate for making sense of the segregation era, and it certainly isn't up to the task of interpreting what has succeeded it or challenging the forms of inequality and injustice that persist.”
Source: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
“What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
“What seemed funny to Davie is that they were good friends in such a short time, and yet they had a poor opinion of each other.
But Mr Mac had sensed what Davie was thinking. He gave him a bottle of orange and said, 'Don't get your feelings hurt, Sonny. I start off with the very highest opinion of everybody, so I have to think less of them with everything they say. But I still think of you very highly. Isn't that better than if I have the lowest opinion of people and my opinion went up with everything they said?”
Source: The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw
“What seemed to have been taken from our lives is simply a precursor to the very thing that’s about to show up.”
“What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.”
“What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
“What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.”
“What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.”
“What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.”
“What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.”
Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.”
“What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”
“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.”
“What seems like loss is often the beginning of new life, for a seed must fall before it can bloom.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What seems like loss may, at times, unfold as gain.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life”
Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
“What seems most likely is generally true.”
“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”
“What seems mysterious can be understood.”
“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.”
“What seems new is only new to us.”
“What seems ordinary to you may be another’s dream—cherish each day with gratitude.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What seems over your head is always under His feet.”
“What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy.”
“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”
“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
“What seems so solid and certain is really part of the ceaseless pull-it-down-build-it-again pattern of history, where the turbulence of the past is recast as landmark, as icon, as tradition, as what we defend, what we uphold--until it's time to call in the wrecking ball.”
Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story
“What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise”
“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”
“What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.”
“What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“What seems to lie behind people's mutual contempt and indifference, such that they can kill each other like assassins who don't really feel they're killing, or like soldiers who don't think about what they're doing, is that no one pays heed to the apparently abstruse fact that other people are also living souls.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.”
Source: Selected Letters
“What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.”
Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph