W Quotes
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“Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!”
“Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.”
“Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.”
“Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.”
“Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.”
“Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.”
“Whatever possibly I can erase about Tamil Nadu from my life, I am done”
“Whatever power I exert is collegial.”
“Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.”
“Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.”
“Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just
what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.”
“Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.”
“Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.”
Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
“Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.”
“Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .”
“Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.”
“Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.”
Source: The Cream of the Jest
“Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.”
“Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.”
“Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.”
Source: The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations
“Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Whatever problem you may encountered, remember always the privilege of being alive.”
“Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.”
Source: We Shadows
“Whatever problems, you may encounter, dwell on the privilege of being alive.”
“Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.”
Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
“Whatever proponents of false memory syndrome may claim and however persuasively they tell their stories and anecdotes, dissociative amnesia typically involves fragmented recall of trauma and is rather a retrieval inhibition than a forgetting (Spiegel et al., 2011). It may also involve complete loss of recall for sexual and physical abuse but most commonly, dissociative amnesia is partial, variable, and coexists with memories of trauma (Dalenberg et al., 2014). Studies addressing the accuracy of recovered abuse memories show that these memories are no less accurate than continuous memories for abuse (Scheflin & Brown, 1996). Memory is reconsolidated each time it is accessed and therefore potentially distorted (Bridge & Paller, 2012).
Evidently, this does not disprove the possibility that some clinicians are too suggestive, one way or another, pushing their patients to adopt views that serve to confirm the therapist’s own perspective and beliefs.”
“Whatever purifies you is the correct road.”
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
“Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.”
“Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)
“Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.”
“Whatever Reality really is, it must have an inherent order. There is far too much consistency and predictability in matter, and even in personalities, for Reality to be grounded totally upon chaos or personal whimsy. And so that order should be understandable, and even explainable, by using clear conceptual reasoning to clarify what the patterns in that inherent order probably are.”
“Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.”
“Whatever regrets may be, we have done our best.”
Source: Endure By Alex Hutchinson & The Rise of Superman By Steven Kotler 2 Books Collection Set
“Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.”
“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.”
Source: A Simple Path
“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.”
“Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.”
Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)
“Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.”
“Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.”
“Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.”
“whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice…"
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Source: Poems, 1962-2012
“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.”
“Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.”
Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)
“Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.”