W Quotes
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“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.”
“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.”
“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour”
“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work”
“What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.”
Source: Management
“What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.”
“What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.”
“What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'”
Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”
“What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
Source: Four Quartets
“What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's income, they want to raise taxes. They want to impugn, punish, institute more regulations, just make it tougher and tougher and do what they can to take money from them.”
“What the Democrats have done is tell the poor and the middle class that the Democrats are looking out for 'em. Democrats are gonna get even with those rich people. They're gonna get there, and they're gonna have theirs taken away. They're gonna lose theirs, and you're supposed to feel good about that. You, who are poor or middle class, are supposed to feel happy, not because you have any more than you had. You're supposed to be happy because the rich that you hate have finally been screwed like you think you were screwed.”
“What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.”
“What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.”
“What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.”
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
“What the deuce is to do now?”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“What the dev— er, deuce did you do that for? It hurt!”
“Good,” said the angel. “I was afraid these new shoes would not be sturdy enough.”
Source: The Perfect Rake
“What the devil are you doing here?” continued the earl, his customary good manners quite banished by the shock of seeing this girl whose treachery had not prevented her from haunting his dreams, sleeping and waking, ever since she had gone.”
Source: A Countess Below Stairs
“What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?”
“What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.' Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.”
“What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.”
“What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.”
“What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?”
Source: The Winning Hand
“What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".”
Source: Five years
“What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.”
Source: Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.”
“What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.”
Source: The Path That Gets Brighter: A Devotional to Instruct, Illustrate, and Encourage Kingdom Principles
“What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.”
Source: Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
“What the effing actual, am I right?”
Source: Young & Wild & Free: the Werewolves of Southern California
“What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.”
“What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!”
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and nothing else.) Beyond that, they had seen the loss of even the most elementary freedoms. (And these freedoms never returned.) How, then, could engineers not have wanted a democratic republic? How could engineers accept the dictatorship of the workers, the dictatorship of their subordinates in industry, so little skilled or trained and comprehending neither the physical nor the economic laws of production, but now occupying the top positions, from which they supervised the engineers? Why shouldn't the engineers have considered it more natural for the structure of society to be headed by those who could intelligently direct its activity?”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago
“What the Englisch referred to as nature, like it was all happenstance, Jesus knew only as creation, a work of God. Even better, the Bible described the entire cosmos as a temple, full of the glory of God. An unending outdoor cathedral.”
Source: Lost and Found
“What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.”
Source: Philosophy of right
“What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.”
“What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.”
“What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.”
“What the ever-loving fuck is this?”
Source: Elves of Fate: Denial
“What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.”
“What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.”
Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?”
Source: Equus
“What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue”
“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.”
“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”
Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
“What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.”