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“What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love.
In those early months we clung to each other with a rather silly desperation, because, in spite of everything my mother or Mrs Jordan could say, there was nothing that really prevented us from seeing each other. With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang. I was victim to his hero. I was always in danger and he was always rescuing me. I would fall and he would lift me up. It was exhilarating and draining. The emotional effect of saving and being saved was addicting to both of us. And that, as much as anything we ever did in bed, was how we made love to each other: conjoined where my weaknesses needed protection.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”
“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”
Source: Preliminary Studies for the
“What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?”
“What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?”
“What should we think of a stout and strong Man, that should exert his fury and barbarity on a helpless and innocent Babe? Should we not abhor and detest that man, as a mean, cowardly, and savage wretch, unworthy the stature and strength of a man? No less mean, cowardly, and savage is it, to abuse and torment the innocent Beast, who can neither help himself or avenge himself; and yet has as much right to happiness in this world as a child can have; nay, more right, if this world be his only inheritance.”
Source: The Duty of Mercy: A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
“What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.”
“What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy
“What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.”
Source: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want
“What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.”
Source: Homilies on the Gospel of John 1-40
“What should young people do with their lives?' That's a good question, and the writer Kurt Vonnegut once came up with a good answer.
'Many things, obviously,' he said. 'But the most daring is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Source: We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?”
Source: Stealing Sacred Fire
“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”
Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes
“What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?”
“What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?”
Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.”
“What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”
Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”
“What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.”
“What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
“What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists”
Source: White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
“What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.”
“What single brave decision do I need to make today?”
“What single brave decision will I make today?”
“What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?”
“What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.”
“What SkyClan needs more than anything else is a leader who has faith in herself. Because only then could other cats have faith in her, too”
Source: SkyClan's Destiny
“What sleeps inside us wants to wake us up.”
“What sleeps underneath has already risen. Look through the violent confusion of humankind, you'll witness the abnormality wickedness living inside their abhorrent structure that only exalts the breath of evil.
- D.L. Lewis”
“What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.”
“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”
“What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.”
Source: Murder at the Bijou
“What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.”
Source: The Tribune Primer
“What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.”
“What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a sense of social reality that has been lost in the abstractly formalistic economic theories that have dominated the field since the last third of the nineteenth century.”
“What so many actors are chasing after is an opportunity to evolve and dive into roles that present unique challenges and give you an opportunity to dig your teeth into something unknown, and therefore risky and exciting.”
“What so many people don’t understand is that the reason some of us do things that seem impossibly hard to others is because we don’t have a choice.”
Source: Stronger Than Words
“What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
With matchless impudence they style a wife,
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.”
Source: The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author
“What so tedious as a twice-told tale?”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“What so wild as words are?”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
“What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.”
“What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its curiosity slowly but surly transforms into a torrent that renders the brain heavy and the mind restless.”