W Quotes
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“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Where am I when I am involved in a book?”
Source: Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age
“Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?”
“Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”
“Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald’s. (Nick)”
“Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?”
“Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.”
“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Where ambition is absolute, limits are irrelevant.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.”
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
Source: 1829-1836
“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Where and what are Helm’s Deep and all the rest of it?” said Merry. “I don’t know anything about this country.”
“Then you’d best learn something, if you wish to understand what is happening,” said Gandalf. “But not just now, and not from me: I have too many pressing things to think about.”
“All right, I’ll tackle Strider at the camp-fire: he’s less testy. But why all this secrecy? I though we’d won the battle!”
Source: The Two Towers
“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”
“WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.”
“Where annual elections end where slavery begins.”
“Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities. ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in the invisible, to work for something that's still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.”
“Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.”
“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”
Source: The road to infinity
“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.”
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Where are all the sour patch parents?”
“Where are Bernie Sanders' supporters today? They were openly toyed with and defrauded.”
“Where are my abodes in this world?
O death, take me home”
“Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.”
“Where are my guards? (Wulf) Oh, one is right here, but he’s not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of people rather quite. As for the other…he’s…oh, wait, dead now. (Stryker)”
“Where are my manners? We haven’t been properly introduced. I’m Surah.”
Source: Redemption
“Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.”
“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.”
Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“Where are Poppydawn's kits?" Bluekit whispered.
"They won't arrive for another two moons," Snowkit answered.
Arrive? Bluekit tipped her head to one side. Where from?”
Source: Bluestar's Prophecy
“Where are Sam and Grace?" "Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace with him. I don't know where they went." "You didn't ask?" "We're not married" Cole said, and added, in a more humble tone, "yet".”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay.”
“Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?”
“Where are the Black businesses? They're not here. The Koreans are here, the Chinese are here, the Arabs are here, the Indians are here. Everybody that wants to make a dollar is making a dollar on our lack of thought to do something for ourselves that was not present in that older generation that came from the South.”
“Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.”
“Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit." I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.”
“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”
Source: I Remain in Darkness
“Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.”
“Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.”
“Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?”
“Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death”
“Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?”
“Where are the HOLY WORDS of CHRIST JESUS at the walls of the Church?”