W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock shouldn't be quality; it should be f**king mania. It should be gnarled, a glorious lo-fi live sound.”
“What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.”
“What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”
Source: Hygienic Review
“what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.”
Source: Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils
“What the skeptic mocks, the dreamer immortalizes.”
“What the society needs is an MBA, that is Master of Benevolent Activism - what the society needs is an MD, that is Maverick of Determination - what the society needs is a PHD, that is Doctor of Perspiring Humanism.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”
“What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
“What the soul is after is - the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul's desire. This is its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel itself, and thus to know itself in its own experience.
The highest feeling is the experience of unity with All That Is. This is the great return to Truth for which the soul yearns. This is the feeling of perfect love.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind of pure intuitive insight that intellect gets, and that intellect must get right, because it's always identical to its objects, it's always the same as the forms that it's thinking about.”
“What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.”
“What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.”
“What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.”
“What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”
Source: Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology
“What The Source becomes, in a physical sense, is almost like this particle accelerator. There's all these different, discrete voices and ideas. If you just saw two of them together perhaps it might seem completely diverse and like, "Why do you have these two people together?" But as it grows and as it speeds up, it kind of creates a larger dialogue.”
“What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“What the Sozo session leader must do is to help open their minds, hearts and spirits to another method of connecting with God. We can do this by a number of methods, principally by leading the Sozoee through a series of simple exercises to expand their repertoire of sensing, hearing, feeling and connecting with God.”
“What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!”
“What the spirit of man can aim at achieving is a dignity which remains when the gods have withdrawn or joined the side of evil, a serene despair which knows that the world contains no higher hope than the human spirit can find within itself.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays
“What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.”
Source: The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints
“What the states could not accomplish by law, they were more than willing to achieve by violence. The wholesale slaughter of African Americans in Colfax, Louisiana (1873), Wilmington, North Carolina (1898), and Ocoee, Florida (1920), resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives simply because whites were enraged that black people had voted.”
Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“What the storm forgot to break still blooms within you.”
Source: ROOTED: The Root. The Rise. The Overflow
“What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break.”
“What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.”
“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
Source: Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays
“What the sun compoundeth, fire analyzeth, not transmuteth. That devouring agent leaves almost always a morsel for the earth, whereof all things are but a colony; and which, if time permits, the mother element will have in their primitive mass again.”
Source: Urne Burial
“What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.”
“What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.”
“What the Swots had studied deeply was the art of forbidding things, and in a very short time they had forbidden painting, sculpture, music, theatre, film, journalism, hashish, voting, elections, individualism, disagreement, pleasure, happiness, pool tables, clean-shaven chins (on men), women’s faces, women’s bodies, women’s education, women’s sports, women’s rights. They would have liked to have forbidden women altogether but even they could see that that was not entirely feasible, so they contented themselves with making women’s lives as unpleasant as possible.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption tax or an income tax. It's about adherence to Constitution and the principle of limited government.”
“What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.”
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
“What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.”
“What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.”
“What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.”
“What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.”
“What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.”
Source: Too Many Cooks
“What the tongue wants.
Supplication and the burn
of crystals expanding.
To be, always, a waxing,
a waning, and, in waxing
again, not ever the same.
Waste and deferral.
Accumulation and deferral.
You are flesh,
and you are water,
though of the flesh,
you are only muscle,
and of the water,
you are saltless and clean.
Be a caution, a reckoning,
be a thing that breaks
before it bends.”
Source: Bestiary: Poems
“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.”
“What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.”
“What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.”
“What the Trump presidency has exposed is — the ideological divide is not so much between conservatives and liberals, but rather those who are willing to allow America to be hijacked by authoritarianism, and those who still believe in constitutional democracy and the rule of law.”
“What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one in five families and shower benefits on people who earn millions of dollars a year. And this fits with a fundamental principle the Republicans have been pursuing for a long time. The rich aren't investing and creating jobs, because they don't have nearly enough money, and so we need to get them money. And the way the Republicans want to get it to them is tax cuts first, and then to take away help for children, the disabled, the elderly and the poor.”