W Quotes
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“Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.”
Source: Points of View
“Whatever has a beginning is not eternal. What is not eternal must have come from "somewhere." The worst thing is to try to prove something, counting on the idea that it came from nothing. It is also as unscientific as it can get. No chaos theory can prove this reasoning, and no "butterfly effect" can prove it because nothing is only nothing and cannot be anything else except nothing. Nothingness cannot move the Nothing or create from nothing.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.”
“Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?”
“Whatever has been done, can never be undone.
And through all of this misfortune, I was the one to get the stain of guilt, the gross wound.”
Source: Because I was born as a Military Child
“Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.”
“Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.”
“Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.”
“Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.”
Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
“Whatever has you afraid, angry, intimidated or frustrated tonight - take it to our all-powerful and all-capable God. He has the answer.”
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.”
Source: The Good Lord Bird
“Whatever he does is profitable, because he does not just do things for the sake of doing them, but he does so in a manner that is reasonable to a large extent.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.”
“Whatever he goes through, I feel. Whatever I go through, he feels. It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.”
Source: Hopeless
“Whatever he had been and whatever he'd been called, he was gone, so I did what usually I did around death which was to forget all about it. The whole shambles - as in the old meaning of shambles, as in slaughterhouse, blood-house, meat market, business-as-usual - once again took hold. Deciding to miss my French night class, I put on my make-up and got ready to go to the club. This was to the brightest, the busiest, the most popular of the eleven drinking-clubs existing in our small area and as for going: drinking clubs were the exact places you would go, exactly what you would do, when both hyper and deadened and in need of alcohol.”
Source: Milkman
“Whatever he had found, it made him a better person. Maybe that's what love was, finding the person who brings out the best in you and eliminates
the worst.”
Source: Make Me a Match
“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want”
Source: The Rum Diary: A Novel
“Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.”
Source: City on Fire
“Whatever he said or did, Tamlin decided he wishes to remain in solitude.' His russet eye darkened. 'Your mate should have known better than to kick a downed male.'
'I can't say I'm particularly sorry that he did.'
'You will need Tamlin as an ally before the dust has settled. Tread carefully.'
I didn't want to think about it, consider it, today. Any day. 'My business with him is done.'
'Yours might be, but Rhys's isn't. And you'd do well to remind your mate of that fact.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Whatever he touched burst into bloom, scattering the snow with leaves like beaten emeralds, red berries, pussy willows and seed cones, a riot of color and texture crackling through that white world. Soon enough our little wilderness path could have been a grand avenue decked out for a returning general's triumphant procession. Birds hunkered down for the long winter crept out of their burrows, chirruping their alarmed delight as they grew drunk on berries. A narrow fox darted across our path, a starling clutched in its mouth, sparing us a dismissive glance as it slunk back into the velvet shadow.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.”
“Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all.”
“Whatever heaven ordains is best.”
“Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.”
Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867
“Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that's what I like about the western world's most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.”
Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman
“Whatever her family setup looked like after this, Leonie would be changed by it, like the roots of a sapling encountering a rock, and growing differently for ever. But maybe that was just life; maybe that's how we all grow.”
Source: The Hidden
“Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation.”
Source: Criss Cross
“Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.”
“Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.”
“Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.”
“Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.”
“Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.”
“Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.”
“Whatever how much you know,
if you don’t know, who you are,
in what world you are living, or simply where you are,
and from where you came from.
Because if you do know, that's completely different story.
18.09.11”
“Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.”
Source: Intuition
“Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.”
Source: Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
“Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.”
Source: Daughter of Anat
“Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.”
“Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.”
“Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.”
“Whatever ‘I AM,’ you are! You are, I AM, not me you see, but you are ‘I AM’ is what will be!”
Deetkatu, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
Source: See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
“Whatever ‘I AM,’ you are! You are, I AM, not me you see, but you are ‘I AM’ is what will be!”
Deetkatu, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
Source: See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
“Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right.”
“Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care what happens to the Republican Party. I care about what happens to America!”