W Quotes
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“Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”
Source: Literature and the Gods
“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.”
“Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.”
“Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.”
“Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.”
“Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.”
“Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.”
Source: Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world
“Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.”
“Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America's Saudi Arabia.”
“Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.”
Source: New Pathways In Science
“Whatever else we may be as creatures that go to and fro on the earth and walk up and down upon it, we are meat. A cannibalistic tribe that once flourished had a word to describe what they ate. That word translates as “the food that talks.” Most of the food that we have eaten over the course of human history has not talked. But it does make other noises, terrible sounds as it is converted from living meat to dead meat on the slaughterhouse floor. If we could hear these sounds every time we sat down to a hearty meal, would we still be the wanton gobblers of flesh that most of us are now?”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.”
Source: Grace Notes
“Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.”
Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
“Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.”
“Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.”
Source: The Desiderata of Happiness
“Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.”
“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.”
“Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.”
Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
“Whatever else you set out to do, begin by getting to know God and seeking His will in your life. If you do that, you will find Him. He will lead you. He will bless you. What a wonderful promise! But it is conditional. If you turn your back on the Lord, He will cast you off forever.”
“Whatever emotional experience has made you who you are today is where you will find the seeds of your life purpose.”
Source: The Infj Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type
“Whatever emotional state you’re in while you’re parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.”
Source: The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies that Work for Your Teenager
“Whatever emotions you're going through, you somehow seek out the people that are going through similar emotions or that maybe have something you need.”
“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792
“Whatever enchants also guides and protects.”
“Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.”
“Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen”
“Whatever energy I acquire mostly I used to spend on mind and to the imagination.”
“Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.”
“Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.”
“Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.”
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.”
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.”
“Whatever evil might come upon us, because we all came about out of love and care and the Bible and Mother Goose. What can stand against that?”
Source: Amy's Eyes
“Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.”
Source: Collected essays
“Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
“Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.”
“Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.”
Source: Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected Writings
“Whatever exists in this universe will perish one day. That's the only truth.”
Source: Quantraz
“Whatever exists is already there; let’s create something beyond it.”
“Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.”
“Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.”
“Whatever experience you go through is necessary for you to know exactly how things are.”
“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.”
“Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise”
Source: Literary Occasions: Essays