W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”
Source: The Fixer: A Novel
“What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.”
Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity
“What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.”
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
“What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.”
“What superficiality- and what stupidity- there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest on things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.”
Source: No Longer Human
“What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.”
“What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.”
Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties
“What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it in my students - but what I've tried to say to people is that we have amazing institutions, but nobody ever said we were perfect. We struggled before and we're struggling now, and we're going to struggle every day. We're a work in progress. That's why the American experience is so important for us to remember, and for us to be a beacon for others to enjoy those same rights.”
“What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.”
“What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”
“What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.”
“What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.”
“What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"”
“What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.”
“What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.”
“What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.”
Source: Life Is A Dream
“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.”
“What surrounds us is what is within us.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.”
Source: A short history of decay
“What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.”
“What sustains our eagerness to speak of sex in terms of repression is doubtless this opportunity to speak out against the powers that be, to utter truths and promise bliss, to link together enlightenment, liberation, and manifold pleasures; to pronounce a discourse that combines the fervor of knowledge, the determination to change the laws, and the longing for the garden of earthly delights.”
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“What sweet delight a quiet life affords.”
Source: Poems by ... W. D. [Edited, with a life by P. C., i.e. Peter Cunningham.]
“What sweet nectars and scents would emerge once the depths of your essence are revealed.”
Source: Shades of Vanity - Shades and Shadows of Eroticism
“What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!”
Source: The True Traveller: A Reader
“What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.”
Source: Poor Russell's almanac
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
“What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.”
“What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.”
“What Taika [Watiti] still bring to it [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], it really sums up what life is like in New Zealand, or what our sensibilities, our sense of humor, how we come together, how easy it would be, feels like. You know, we have a small population and so you know the bizarreness of the police getting involved in this manhunt, how the men... And then eventually, the army all get intwines.”
“What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.”
“What takes first place in your heart determines your pursuit”
“What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.”
“What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?”
Source: How to Lead a Life of Crime
“What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.”
“What takes root in the soul, always bares the bravery”
“What takes us back to the past are the memories.
What brings us forward is our dreams.”
“What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.”
“What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.”
“What tastes good together in the kitchen often belongs together in the bed.”
Source: Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
“What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.”
Source: Oblivion: Stories
“What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.”
Source: From the Child's Point of View
“What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.”
“What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.”
“What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.”
“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”