W Quotes
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“What use will money and wealth be to those who possess them when the rivers and land are poisoned, the seas devoid of life and the air polluted beyond tolerance?”
Source: The journey
“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”
Source: 3 great classics
“What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”
Source: Amadeus
“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”
Source: Likelihood
“What used to be communal living has become socio-political manipulation on a planetary scale. Everything has become a tool to engineer our consciousness development at every step, ranging from breathing to food to water...”
Source: We Are One
“What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.”
“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”
“What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.”
“What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.”
“What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker.”
“What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.”
“What users want is convenience and results.”
Source: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
“What usually comes first is the contract.”
“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.”
Source: Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity
“What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.”
“What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.”
“What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived”
Source: Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality
“What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated.”
“What valor cannot win, flattery may.”
“What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?”
Source: King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III
“What valuable company is nobody building?”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“What Value does GOLD hold?
Well, when it descended from a precious Mold,
It already had its 360 degree supremacy doled!
with an exquisite colour, it steadfastly holds,
a permanance@corrosion resistance in its fold,
That's how it is HOT, even when it feels Cold!
it nurses a brand to which all Queens are sold!”
“What value does love hold if you can't risk taking a knife to the heart?”
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
“What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?”
Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)
“What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.”
Source: Scott's Lady of the Lake
“What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.”
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.”
“What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.”
“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author
“What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.”
“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale”
Source: The Crucible
“What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?”
“What violent, good luck you had. When you bought your home you received stolen property, but the blood had dried, the war forgotten, and it seemed your god himself had granted you this land.”
Source: American Ghosts
“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”
Source: Silent on the Moor
“What virtue signallers do not seem to realize is that a virtuous act can only be spontaneous and immediate, in the present moment. It cannot be premeditated, because if it is preplanned then it is done for motive, and that is an act of the ego. The most common motive is to elevate one’s image in the eyes of others. But in fact, such a calculated act will only serve to weaken your power in the long run, in the eyes of the Universe. The most common offending groups are politicians and celebrities.”
“What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment. These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.”
Source: Urne Burial
“What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!”
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations
“What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few transparent materials in the natural world or the built environment. And so we deal with things superficially, and we deal with what's in front of us, not what's behind our head that we can't see, or to the left or the right. Visualists are often linear and timeline-oriented, whereas the natural condition and the natural way of problem-solving throughout evolution is to be multitasking.”
“What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.”
“What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!”
Source: Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems
“What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.”
“What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.”
“What Walks By Night by Stewart Stafford
Jealous looks at earthly prowl,
Or unbound by fleshly form,
Seen under darkness’ cowl:
Agitated ghost or hellspawn?
Violence torments it from sleep,
Or trapped inside by exorcist bait,
Hexed glances corrupted, weep,
As redress or perdition state.
Jinxed trails of ashen flame,
Unheard wails for living aid,
Or gatecrash our human frame,
As night and sunrise trade.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.”
“What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.”
“What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.”