W Quotes
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“Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.”
“Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.”
Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions
“Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self
“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”
Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters
“Whatever— the soup is getting cold.
[Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518]”
“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”
“Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.”
“Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.”
“Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be connected, if I am at all fundamentally right in what I am saying, then thinking in terms of stories must be shared by all mind or minds, whether ours or those of red wood forests and sea anemones.
Credit Line: Vít Pokorný”
Source: Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness
“Whatever the Struggle/Continue the Climb/It May Be Only One Step to the Summit”
Source: My Unspeakable Loss: A Birthmother's Memoir About Adoption Secrecy
“Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.”
“Whatever the tax rate is, pay it. The cost of non-compliance is greater than the cost of reduction of profits.”
“Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.”
Source: Solitude of Self
“Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.”
Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches
“Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.”
Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.”
“Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft ("GOD") who will spend all eternity torturing people who do not believe in his religion.”
“Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.”
Source: In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”
“Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.”
“Whatever the trouble may be, you are the answer. In this difficult time, you are peygamber undercover.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on what we do. More important than making predictions is doing things which help bring about this respect.”
“Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Whatever the ultimate nature of reality may turn out to be, it's completely different from how it seems.”
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.”
“Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.”
“whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.”
Source: The Decoration of Houses
“Whatever the water touched was riparian: that moist layer of air and rich earth along the shore was an Eden for many forms of life. Some drowned in a daily flood, while those that knew how, thrived. There was something riparian too about the people who spent most of their time on the water. Those whose language and equilibrium had been dictated by the elements around them. Who’d learned to hang on in the ever-shifting swell and drift of water under their feet. Contrast and contradictions abounded for those who had learned to meander despite limited space or to be still in the midst of all that rocking.”
Source: At the Waterline
“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind
“Whatever the weather may be, says he,
Whatever the weather may be,
It's the songs we sing and the smiles we wear,
That's a-making the sunshine everywhere.”
Source: The Story of the Fairmont Empress: Victoria
“Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.”
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
“Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.”
“Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.”
Source: Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
“Whatever the world does, is indeed all a natural discharge [disposal of karma]. You may chant God’s name, you may do penance; it is all nature’s discharge. If someone garlands you, how is he obliging you? And if someone picks your pocket, how is he hurting you? One is instrumental in the charging (creation of new karma), but in the discharge, it is only nature’s doing. This is the ultimate vision of the Vitraags, the Enlightened ones free of attachment.”
“Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.”
Source: The works of George Berkeley, D.D., bishop of Cloyne
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.”
“Whatever their DNA contribution to the region, the Brahmins did bring
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
Source: The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
“Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.”
“Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!”
“Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.”
“Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Whatever. There is a natural order to things, a hierarchy. And no less so in man. For man may be the master of nature, but he is also part of it. Every living thing, from the greatest of all men to the lowliest earthworm has its place. It is very important that the groundhog not think he is tiger, nor a sparrow believe he is a hawk. A frog would not make a very good shark, would it? One must know their place in the world" ~ Baroness von Berge, Greta Greaves of Austria”
Source: Crass Casualty (The Victoria da Vinci novels)
“Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.”