W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What society chooses to call mad is sometimes just creativity out of context”
“what society dictates
we consume
cattle gathering around
learning devices called
television
mouths opening wider
while addictive morsels
of consumerism are
violently jammed into
us
and we lose more
bits and pieces
of our collective identity
daily”
Source: Hang Gliding on X
“What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.”
“What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.”
“What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.”
“what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.”
Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening
“What society teaches people is not to guard themselves like precious gold that must not be stolen, but rather to make them forget that they themselves are valuable gold—encouraging them to scatter this gem within outwardly. If one pays attention to those who have internalized and ritualized the selling of their soul, it becomes clear: they possess dozens of interests and pursuits, paint colorful pictures, and write rich texts, yet remain inwardly colorless and utterly empty.”
“What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.”
“What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--
These Gentlewomen are--
One would as soon assault a Plush--
Or violate a Star”
“What softened your heart?" I asked softly.
"Good music and a friend."
I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power"
"So does friendship," he supplied frankly.”
Source: Running Barefoot
“What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.”
“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”
Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader
“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”
“What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.”
“What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.”
“What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.”
“What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.”
“What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.”
“What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.”
“What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.”
Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck
“What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.”
“What some people invent the rest enlarge.”
“What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.”
“What some people need," said Magrat, to the world in general, "is a bit more heart."
"What some people need," said Granny Weatherwax, to the stormy sky, "is a lot more brain."
Then she clutched at her hat to stop the wind from blowing it off.
What I need, thought Nanny Ogg fervently, is a drink.”
Source: Witches Abroad
“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”
“What some people say on earth is that the final loss of one soul gives the lie to all the joy of those who are saved."
"Ye see it does not."
"I feel in a way that it ought to."
"That sounds very merciful: but see what lurks behind it."
"What?"
"The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven."
"I don't know what I want, Sir."
"Son, son, it must be one way or the other. Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. I know it has a grand sound to say ye'll accept no salvation which leaves even one creature in the dark outside. But watch that sophistry or ye'll make a Dog in a Manger the tyrant of the universe.”
Source: The Great Divorce
“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.”
“What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.”
“What some politicians really mean when they say
this country: me, my party, my ethnic group
international justice is biased: they want to arrest me
terrorists: opposition
illegal immigrants: refugees
elections: remaining in power
peace: eliminating the opposition
international community: the rich countries
the people: sympathisers of my party”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.”
“What someone considers truth is considered by someone else as a lie”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.”
Source: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays
“What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.”
“What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.”
“What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“What someone shows you isn’t always who they are.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.”
“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?”
“What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?”
Source: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
“What song is it you want to hear?”
“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”
“What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.”
“What soon grows old? Gratitude.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“What?” Sophie asked, wiping under her lashes when she noticed Keefe staring. “Did I smudge it?”
“No, Foster. You look... perfect.”
Source: Flashback
“What Sophronia did not know, and had yet to learn to control, was that her smile was rather more powerful than most. The face she saw in the mirror each morning was passingly pretty, if not terribly thrilling, but when she smiled with the full force of her personality behind it, she came over vibrant and striking. It was one of the reasons Monique disliked her so.”
Source: Etiquette & Espionage
“What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?”