W Quotes
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“What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?”
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.”
“What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it. That either I hadn't done enough sex work by their standards, or I hadn't done the right kind in order to have the right to speak about it. I couldn't understand them. I'm not speaking for you. I'm not speaking "for" anyone. I'm trying to put together this picture of the different forces that are producing a result in the lives of sex workers. You can't contest the fact that tons of people are going to jail and experiencing violence.”
“What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.”
“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal -- and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”
Source: Islands, the universe, home
“What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.”
Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.”
“What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.”
“What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”
“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”
Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.”
“What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.”
“What should be shrunken must first be stretched.”
“What should be standing in the shoes of passion, and be walking on the plans of action is sitting in the ink on the papper. Why? Because of the fear to start.”
“What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.”
“What should be the easiest thing, talking about our work in a way that frames its success, is one of the hardest acts for so many of us.”
“What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?”
“What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.”
“What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.”
“What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?”
“What should happen and what actually happens... Seems so true for small organisations business.. Initially the promoters make their associates dream of the trickle down once business grows and assign a glass of hope but later the size of upper cup grows to kill the trickle down effects.. #ProfitMaximization and #Greed of business growth is killing small businesses..”
Source: 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner [Use Only Printed Work Book: LIFE IS SIMPLE HENCE SIMPLE WORKBOOK
“What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'”
“What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.”
Source: The Ethics of Authenticity
“What should he do in heaven? He didn't know anybody there.”
Source: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
“What should i ache for?
The childhood that slipped away?
The silence that became my companion?
The love that got fed up of me?
The consistent throb in the left side of my chest?
The need to reform ?
The longing to change myself?
or the pieces of myself I'll never get back?
Maybe pain isn't a phase-
it's just who I am”
“What should I be apologizing for?"
Ah. There he was. There was the cocky, egocentric Max Cavanagh with the special "something" no one quite knew how to define. Well, I could define it. Not with any words a Southern lady would use, but I could define it all right.”
Source: Hadley Beckett's Next Dish
“What should I be but just what I am?”
Source: A Few Figs from Thistles
“What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.”
“What should I call you? A friend, a stranger, or a lover? I remember the day you laid your eyes on me the first time. There was just something unwavering about that moment. It wasn’t peaceful or absolute. It was definite. Something that was bound to happen. It was like as if our souls were waiting for us to collide. And oh we did! We collided like meteors, giving this universe a spectacular view. From my 2 am thought that used to keep me up at night, you soon became my 2 am call. From an almost stranger to my skin, you became a part of me. But just like every collision, ours also had to end in destruction. The 2 am call soon became a 2 am thought. The thought still keeps me up at night, but not for the same reasons. From strangers to lovers and lovers to strangers again, our journey hasn’t been ordinary. Someone asked me about you today and for a moment, I didn’t know what to call you. Who are you to me now? A friend – no. Definitely not a lover. I guess, you and I – we are just strangers with memories.”
“What should I carry?” she asked, her voice coming from someone else’s body. No way did Hayley — that street rat, that scoundrel, that criminal, that escaped slave — flat out ask what weapon she would carry into battle.”
Source: Squire Hayseed
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
“What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?”
“What should I do with my kid? I want to put him under my arm and get the hell out. But I have a Party card in my pocket. I can't do it.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?”
“What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.”
“What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.”
Source: Middlemarch
“What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.
Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..”
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
“What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?”
Source: Siddhartha
“What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.”
“What should I say? ‘Well, the murder was a little upsetting, and the fire did worry me a bit. I was nearly date-raped and my ex best friend is crazy. But, hey, at least I’m making an A in History’?”
Source: Night School
“What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?”
Source: Princess Academy
“What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.”
“What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?”
Source: The Reader
“What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.”
“What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
heaven?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“What SHOULD the world know about Real Love?
- What they didn't know about the color Black ...
Easy to claim
Hard to Handle ...”
“What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.”
“What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.”