W Quotes
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“Whatever is going to happen is already happening.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”
“Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.”
“Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.”
“Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.”
Source: M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory
“Whatever is happening in life, being joyful is a completely different thing.”
“Whatever is happening in SA is a lot of bullshit. You cannot have a problem with every colour; white, green, black, yellow and still not be the problem. It's time a leader emerged and taught folks something on prioritization.”
“Whatever is happening in the Kenyan political scene is utter bad manners with refined impunity. Then we have the voters, the majority of whom are clueless about what the whole thing means to them.”
“Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.”
“Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?”
“Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.”
“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.”
“Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”
Source: A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
“Whatever is in your magnetic field is attracting to itself, and so the more love in your field, the more power you have to attract the things you love.”
Source: The Power
“Whatever is, is in its causes just;
But purblind man
Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam
That poises all above.”
Source: Oedipus: A Tragedy
“Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?”
Source: Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
“Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.”
“Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.”
“Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.”
“whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.”
“Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
Source: The Rights of Man
“Whatever is natural admits of variety.”
“Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease - that is when things happen.”
“Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.”
“Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.”
Source: Circles on the Water
“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.”
“Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.”
“Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.”
“Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”
“Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.”
“Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.”
Source: The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics
“Whatever is not stone is light”
Source: Selected poems
“Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.”
“Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.”
“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Whatever is popular deserves attention.”
“Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.”
“Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.”
“Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.”
“whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable”
“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”
“Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”