W Quotes
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“What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”
“What the poet tells us is that, after the ordeals and adventures, after the revelation and the loss, the king must do two things: preserve the splendor of his city and tell his own story. Both tasks are complementary: both speak of the intimate connection between building a city of walls and building a story of words, and both require, in order to be accomplished, the existence of the other.”
Source: La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures
“What the point of crying over the things you don't have. Be patience and make the best of what you have. In TIME, great things will come.”
“What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.”
“What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.”
“What the poor as well as the rich require is not to be indoctrinated, is not to be taught other people’s opinions, but to be induced and enabled to think for themselves. It is not physical science that will do this, even if they could learn it much more thoroughly than they are able to do. After reading, writing, and arithmetic (the last a most important discipline in habits of accuracy and precision, in which they are extremely deficient), the desirable thing for them seems to be the most miscellaneous information, and the most varied exercise of their faculties. They cannot read too much. Quantity is of more importance than quality, especially all reading which relates to human life and the ways of mankind; geography, voyages and travels, manners and customs, and romances, which must tend to awaken their imagination and give them some of the meaning of self-devotion and heroism, in short, to unbrutalise them.”
Source: The Letters of John Stuart Mill, Vol 1
“What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.”
“What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.”
“What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.”
“What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope. It is not a reflection of all religious people.”
“What the present day greeders don't understand... is that your character, lack of integrity, low morals, no ethics and devious actions are being RECORED indelibly for the global public to view for next few hundred years...on the internet TATOO!.
Your childrens', childrens', childrens' childrens' childrens' childrens' childrens - will read on the web of your low-intelligence, devious thievery, corruption, and inept leadership.. And they will cry with shame... because their ancestors seemed to behave no better than greedy Graboons.
We need to Rethink leadership”
“What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.”
“What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?”
“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.”
Source: The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic
“What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.”
“What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.”
“What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.”
“What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.”
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
“What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.”
“What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.”
“What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.”
“What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.”
“What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.”
Source: How the World Works
“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”
Source: The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“What the Rastaman represents is positivity.”
“What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.”
“What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.”
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
“What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.”
Source: Selected Letters
“What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you alienate an individual who has the ability to attract a new generation of voters, who are already skeptical of your institution but are willing to at least listen through the vehicle of this individual and the words that he is saying? Why would you alienate them, get on the floor and not let them speak? Not have his name go up on the board and see the number of electoral votes that he receives? This is crazy!”
“What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.”
“What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.”
Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
“What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!”
“What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.”
“What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.”
“What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.”
“What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.”
Source: Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire
“What the roses are saying cannot be heard through voice
but through beauty as you watch the rain slip
from their petals and hang from their edges.
(Dena Colhoff, student)”
Source: Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky: Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School
“What the Sand gets, the Sand keeps forever.
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone”
Source: The Crossing Places
“What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.”
Source: Selected poems
“What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.”
“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.”
“What The Scriptures Refer To As Sin, In The Medical World It’s Responsible For Disease”
“What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.”
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”