W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth”
“What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.”
“What truly defines a person is not their external accomplishments, but the spark within their core. It is this spark that empowers them to strive for a better world. Those who possess this inner strength not only inspire us all but also become paragons of virtue.”
“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”
“What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.”
Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”
Source: Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career
“What truly ties us together is not blood but pain. When we love someone and lose them, that loss imprints itself on everyone else we love too.”
Source: Bloodmarked
“What Trump has announced - that he is going to not obey rules by which we govern our relations with other countries. He's going to reject the treaties that we have had in the past. He is going to go from what is called a multilateral system, where we all work together, to trying to deal country by country and basically throw out what has been achieved over a 60-year period.”
“What Trump intuitively understood, and which completely eluded reporters, was that the constant hostility was hurting their cause. Each time Trump was attacked for saying American interests were more important than global concerns, or that American jobs were more valuable than cheap products from other countries, or that rights of Americans should be protected over those of immigrants, normal Americans felt attacked themselves.
And to those Americans, the assault on Trump for expressing rational self-interest on behalf of our country was a breaking point. The growing liberal bias and animosity towards dissenting opinion that had developed over the Obama era had become too great to endure.”
Source: Understanding Trump
“What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it.”
“What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why”
Source: Leading From The Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
“What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”
“What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.”
“What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.”
“What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.”
“What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.”
Source: Bossypants
“What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.”
“What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk.
"I blame chocolate.”
Source: Scott Sapphire and the Emerald Orchid
“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.”
“What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.”
“What turns me on is not what I do to your body, it is what I do to your mind”
Source: Lust is My Favorite Sin
“What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.”
“What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.”
Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture.”
Source: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”
“What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.”
“What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?”
“What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?”
“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
“What type of flavor do you think I prefer?"
She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who wants the mystery inside the flower bud."
I can still appreciate the different nuances of the stronger flavors." He studied the orchid in the center of the table. "With the very delicate, you sculpt something down to such a whisper of form, there's nothing else it can be. It's in strength you find surprises, variation.”
Source: Ice Queen
“What type of legacy do you want to leave?”
Source: Me to We: Turning Self-Help on Its Head
“What type of Manhattan Night proposal is this?
(Note: I am talking about Manhattan Night movie, book)”
Source: BuZoever
“What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative.”
“What type of steward would I be," Boaz said. "If I didn't use the blessings God gave me to care for those in my power to help?”
“What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself”
“What type of wrong thing, did I do?
...
What wrong did I said... and why I am so unlucky with the questionable "Relationships"?”
Source: Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel
“What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?”
Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III
“What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.”
Source: The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
“What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.”
“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”
“What under heaven do you want with a daughter of the bourgoisie? Leave them alone. pick some great, wanton flame of a woman, who laughs at life and jeers at death and loves one while she may. There are such women, and they will love you just as reaidly as any pusillanimous product of bourgois-sheltered life."
"Pusillanimous?" Martin protested.
'Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life. They will love you, Martin, but they will love their little moralities more. What you want is the magnificent abandon of life, the great free souls, the blazing butterflies of life and not the little gary months".”
Source: Martin Eden
“What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.”
“What [undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children] did qualify for, according to human rights experts, was refugee status -- something President Obama was careful not to give them.”
Source: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
“What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
Source: No Longer Human
“What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.”
“What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.”
“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings