W Quotes
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“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.”
“Where is the logic behind the idea that something mortal, fickle, imperfect, weak, could deserve such eternal measure, eternal punishment in its absolute force, which would be too harsh even for the Devil if it existed? Only absolute crime deserves absolute punishment, and Hell, being eternal, is the absolute punishment for its inhabitants. But what possible crime deserves absolute punishment except if a man was capable of killing God, which would be the absolute crime, deserving absolute punishment and Hell? In that case, there would be no God to execute the punishment. Therefore, absolute crime is impossible. Even if God survived, this omnipotent and benevolent God would still have mercy over such a weak and wicked creature as a human being, to exercise his grace and absolute power instead of revenge and save the soul of a lost human being from eternal pain.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Where is the love in what you're doing?”
Source: More Than Meets the Eye
“Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?”
Source: The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography
“Where is the man who has not felt in his breast the wonderful mystery of love? Whoever you may be who come to read these pages - call to mind that noontide of supreme happiness, behold once more that image of angelic beauty, the spirit of love itself, as she came to meet you; it was through her, through her alone, that you seemed assured of your own higher existence. Do you recall how the bubbling springs, the rustling bushes, the caressing evening breezes told so clearly of her love? Can you still picture the flowers that turned their gentle, shining eyes upon you, bringing kisses and words of endearment from her? And she came, yielding to you utterly. You embraced her with burning desire, and thought to rise above the pettiness of earth in the flame of your fervent longing. But the miracle did not happen; you were forced back to earth just as you were about to soar with her to the distant promised land. You had lost her even before you had dared to hope; the voices, the beautiful sounds had all died away, and only the despairing lamentation of the lonely soul was heard in the cruel wilderness.”
Source: The Devil's Elixirs
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?”
“Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn`t look very good.”
“Where is the money going to come from? From wherever it is at the moment.”
“Where is the most important of the 5 W Questions. When you are in your "Where" you can fearlessly become "Who" you are to fully live "Why" you are here. Determine your "Where" then your "Who" then your "Why".”
“Where is the notion of a real hierarchy still to be found in the modern world? Nothing and nobody is any longer in the right place; men no longer recognize any effective authority in the spiritual order or any legitimate power in the temporal; the 'profane' presume to discuss what is sacred, and to contest its character and even its existence; the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the Divine, earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the universe laws drawn entirely from his own relative and fallible reason. 'Woe unto you, ye blind guides,' the Gospel says; and indeed everywhere today one sees nothing but blind leaders of the blind, who, unless restrained by some timely check, will inevitably lead them into the abyss, there to perish with them.”
Source: The Crisis of the Modern World
“Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?”
Source: Sabine
“Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?”
“Where is the Palestinian Martin Luther King? I’ve heard said on more than one occasion, never accompanied by any self-reflection as to what kind of society necessitates a man like that, nor what that society ultimately did to him before his posthumous veneration. The implicit accusation is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.”
“Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth?”
“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.”
“Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?”
Source: Selected essays
“Where is the root of non-Aryan cult? First of all he makes an imagination and that remains as imagination forever, as a result the Truth is not exposed’. But what happens in Aryan cult? Through evolution of life power the living man envelops the human race and the proof will be borne by them. But he will not know anything.”
“Where is the Sacred Pendant?”
Source: Terrorists Don't Choose Their Parents
“Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?”
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
“Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don't understand it, why is it taking so long for this? This woman clearly shows that people want to go see her in the movies. ‘Lucy,’ didn't it beat ‘Hercules’ by a lot opening weekend, when it was made for a lot less? She shows that she kicks ass, she's a great actress. ‘Under the Skin’ is an incredible film, and why are we still waiting for a go-ahead on a superhero movie starring Scarlett Johansson?
To me, it's a no-brainer. You want to make money, put Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie!”
“Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“Where is the sense of outrage for our Muslim neighbors, Dearborn citizens all? Should we not feel the same sense of violation and shock even though these worshipers pray to a different version of God than we do?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?”
“Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.”
“Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.”
“Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.”
“Where is the support and guidance for what comes after the treatment? Shouldn’t someone prepare us for what comes next?”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.”
“Where is the truth then? Where does truth exist, behind the lie, within the lie? Is truth that which we seek to know or that which we avoid knowing?”
Source: Pleasant Day
“Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world.”
“Where is the voice of freedom, / freedom to laugh, / to move / without the heavy phantom of despair?
(From "Farewell from Welfare Island")”
“Where is the wine that ever forged its glass?
None ever, oh, none ever,
For garnet contradiction holds it fast.
The cup is but a spill belied,
And wine englassed is flow denied.
Where is the glass that ever made man fall?
None ever, oh, none ever,
For trampled grape, disordered dream, and all,
Drain down his throat like whispered lies,
The glass left empty as his eyes.
Where is the poison that was in the wine?
Forever, oh, forever
It claims his veins to be its vine,
Its fruit cold stones, its scent stopped breath,
For wine’s true form wreathes through his death.”
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
Source: The Rock
“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”
Source: The woman in white
“Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.”
Source: Foundation and Earth
“Where is the yesterday that worried us so.”
“Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?”
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into a tyger, or has not reason to envy the lesser misery of a bond-slave to a merciless tyrant?”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?”
Source: What Men Live By and Other Tales
“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”
“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
“Where is there substance in a universe composed of events?" Paul asked. "Is there a final answer? Doesn't each solution produce new questions?"
"You've digested so much time you have delusions of immortality." the ghola said. "Even your Empire, my lord, must live its time and die.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.”
Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities
“Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?”