W Quotes
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“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.”
“Whatever the art or whatever the craft - and make a note of this before you go - talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.”
“Whatever the attitude, so is the response.”
“Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.”
“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”
“Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.”
“Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.”
“Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.”
Source: Villette
“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”
“Whatever the circumstance, there are seeds of meaning, even to our very last breath.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire”
“Whatever the claims of memes to be regarded as replicators in the same sense as genes, the first part of this chapter established that individual organisms are not replicators.”
Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Whatever the clouds plan to do; I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out”
“Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.”
“Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.”
“Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.”
“Whatever the cost, however financed, the benefits for park visitors in health and happiness--virtues unknown to statisticians--would be immeasurable.”
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
“Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.”
“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.”
Source: Les Belles Images
“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.”
Source: Les Belles Images
“Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.”
“Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.”
“Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.”
Source: Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present
“Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.”
“Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.”
“Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Whatever the Democrats want, yeah, they should get it. We're for it!”
“Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.”
“Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.”
“Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.”
“Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.”
“Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.”
“Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration”
“Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.”
“Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.”
“Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.”
“Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.”
“Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.”
“Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.”
“Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.”
“Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.”
“Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.”
“Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.”
“Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.”