W Quotes
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“Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.”
Source: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
“Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.”
“Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.”
“Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love . . .), I feel pleasure if there is an obstacle placed in my path but one not greater than my ability to overcome. If circumstances paralyze my energy, I suffer. From this point of view, pleasure and pain accompany every moment of our life, even if we try to disregard them.”
“Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.”
“Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.”
“Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.”
“Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.”
“Whatever may be the discoveries of the scientific mind, none can dispute the eternal truths propounded by the Upanishads. Though they may appear as riddles, the key to solving them lies in our heart and if one were to approach them with an open mind one could secure the treasure as did the Rishis of ancient times”
“Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.”
“Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.”
“Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”
“Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.”
Source: Journal of the Federal Convention
“Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.”
“Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove. (Heretics)”
“Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.”
Source: Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
“Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, orwhether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.”
“Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.”
“Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.”
“Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”
Source: Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]
“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
Source: Meditations of the Heart
“Whatever may be their use in civilised societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men. And it serves to explain how restless they are under her criticism; how impossible it is for her to say to them this book is bad, this picture is feeble, or whatever it may be, without giving far more pain and rousing far more anger than a man would do who gave the same criticism. For if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks; his fitness for life is diminished. How is he to go on giving judgement, civilising natives, making laws, writing books, dressing up and speechifying at banquets, unless he can see himself at breakfast and at dinner at least twice the size he really is?”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.”
“Whatever may be your circumstances, count your blessings!”
“Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.”
Source: The Dawn of Day
“Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.”
“Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.”
“Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!”
Source: Dracula
“Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.”
“Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.”
“Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.”
Source: Meditations
“Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.”
Source: Meditations
“Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!”
“Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.”
“Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.”
“Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain.”
Source: Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
“Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.”
“Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.”
Source: Baruch: My own story
“Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)”
“Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.”
“Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.”
Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)