W Quotes
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“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
“Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.”
“Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.”
“Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.”
Source: The essential Turgenev
“Whatever a person wants to sacrifice for God will be multiplied many times over by God will be multiplied many times over by God for that person”
“Whatever a person writes comes from them. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it is the sum of their experience being shared. One need not poke at old wounds. Write honestly; the truth will emerge.”
Source: The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure
“Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.”
Source: Life's Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
“Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.”
“Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to other people.”
“Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to the people that came before you.”
“Whatever a politician says is just part of the game of lies. But when a true leader speaks, JAH is felt.”
“Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.”
Source: Women in Science: Then and Now
“Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.”
Source: Stories and Legends
“whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.”
Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West
“Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.”
“Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get up, we should prostrate in that place. It is good to cultivate the habit of considering our pen, books, clothes, vessels, and the tools of our job as imbued with divine presence and use them with care and respect. This will help keep the thought of God alive throughout our body, mind and atmosphere.”
“Whatever activity one sees in this world, it is discharge of previously charged karma. Man has nothing to do with it. He only does egoism here of, ‘I did samayik (introspective meditation).’ He creates a karmic account! He becomes entrapped! He takes enjoyment from tasting sweetness of subtle pride of doer-ship.”
“Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Whatever advantages I might have as a verbal human being with a handy batch of coping and masking mechanisms in place, I am no better than anyone else on the spectrum. We are equals. When I say that autistic lives have value, I'm speaking for every single one of them.”
Source: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
“Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.”
Source: Blkberry Winter
“Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.”
“Whatever advice you give, be short.”
“Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.”
“Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Whatever affects one affects all indirectly.”
Source: The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force
“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
“Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.”
“Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.”
“Whatever age you think I am, you’re probably right.”
“Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!”
“Whatever am I going to do with that monster, Ryder Davis?”
He gave a husky laugh. “I think you could probably just tell it to come now and it would.”
Source: Playing With Forever
“Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.”
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
“Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.”
“Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”
Source: Willem de Kooning
“Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.”
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.”
“Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?”
“Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.”
“Whatever and wherever the business needs are, IT should proactively solve the problems with setting priority right and recharge the business by catalyzing innovation.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Whatever any moment may bring, there is that unconditioned Reality, the Infinitely Compassionate, ar-Rahman, the Infinitely Merciful, the ar-Raheem. (p. 10)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.”
Source: Meditations
“Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things.”
“Whatever anybody does or does not do is based on either greed or fear.”
“Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.”