W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.”
“Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.”
“Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.”
“Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"”
“Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.”
“Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.”
“Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.”
“Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.”
“Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.”
“Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.”
“Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.”
“Whether the autistic subject is inscribed as 'nearly' developed or 'under' developed, developmental discourses always situate the autistic subject as partially developed and thus not fully human. [...] Developmentalist discourses frame the autistic subject in need of advocacy as a kind of development project, the autistic body becomes understood as 'develop-able.' The autistic is, in other words, framed as one who needs to be taught humanness.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Source: The Eye of the World: the Graphic Novel, Volume Two
“Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him.”
“Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.”
“Whether the Bushes, or whoever they are, they always end up in the end with the money and the ability to really blow away anybody who dares challenge them.”
“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In 4 Volumes
“Whether the codependency/recovery people know it or not, parent bashing is a direct result of Freudian psychology.”
Source: 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies
“Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.”
“Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton
“Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.”
“Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.”
Source: An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age
“Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.”
“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?”
“Whether the future is wonderful or terrible is, in part, up to us.”
“But just as the world does not stop at our doorstep or our country’s borders, neither does it stop with our generation, or the next.”
― William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
But, If we are to be responsible for the future then how could we not be responsible for our own past?
Accepting historical truths has nothing to do with "personal responsibility" but historical responsibility is definitely a thing we must accept to even have a future that isn't doomed to repeat its horrid past...”
“Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.”
“Whether the grand challenge you plan to address is global in nature or affects only your industry, what’s clear is this: if you don’t address it, someone else will”
Source: Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers
“Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.”
“Whether the head smashes against the wall, or the wall smashes against the head, the result is always the same - whether a fascist smashes against the citizens, or the citizens smash against the fascist, the result is always the same.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.”
“Whether the individuals are members of the Eisenhower Generation or the Baby Boomers, The Villages produces a culture of individual and collective youthfulness, but one paradoxically without youth. Youthfulness in these terms is not only produced through communal activities but also through the repair, development, and enhancement of the individual body itself. The programming of the strip hospital complex supports what might be termed as 'cyborgian' ambitions of the residents with respect to a broad range of treatments and products, from the biochemical and the biomechanical, to the bio-cosmetic and the psychochemical. Blechman's documentation of the 'Don Juan' of the villages, Mr. Midnight, resonates with this notion of posthuman subjecthood: 'I have to pick up my Viagra,' he says, and soon returns with a brown package. 'It's not that I need it, mind you. It's an enhancement, like whipped cream and nuts on a sundae. If it's a special night, I might take 100 milligrams.' Other 'enhancements' include the over-the-counter canned oxygen product Big Ox Power Oxygen reportedly used by residents to speed hangover recovery. These forms of experimental subjectivity and collectivity produce unforeseen effects:
Doctors said sexually transmitted diseases among senior citizens are running rampant at a popular Central Florida retirement community, according to a Local 6 News report. A gynaecologist at The Villages community near Orlando, Fla., said she treats more cases of herpes and the human papilloma virus in the retirement community than she did in the city of Miami.
According to the news report, local doctors attributed this predicament to the ready availability of Viagra within the community, a lack of sexual education, and the non-risk of pregnancy within the age group. It will be suggested here, however, that the broader spatiotemporal construction of The Villages, including golf carts and golf cart infrastructure, downtown public settings, and happy hours, further contribute to the social milieu that promotes enhanced intimacy as well as sexual activity.”
Source: Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society
“Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.”
“Whether the judge all those years ago agreed that Jenny had no right to what she wished, or whether her plainspoken grief, which she shouted out in silence from her eyes, moved him, or disturbed him, or confused him, doesn't matter. He whispered, 'Life.' And so she lived. Is living still. Will go on living, to the end of that whisper.”
“Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.”
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”
“Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind and that will suffice.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.”
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.”
“Whether the perpetrator is acting under direct satanic sway, or indirectly in the way that all sin can be ultimately tied to satan's province, a certain degree of deceit and subtlety can be assumed in all sexual abuse.”
Source: The Wounded Heart
“Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.”
“Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.”
“Whether the pressure is from an inward or an outward expectation, there's always this nagging feeling that we should be able to restore any form of disfigurement, that embalmers should possess some Harry Potter magic in our prep room and magically wave our trocar (a large needle-like instrument we use during embalming) while chanting Abracadabra, pulchra cadaver and then "poof we have beautiful corpses. But there is no magic trocar.”
Source: Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
“Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.”
Source: Memoirs
“Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.”
“Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.”
“Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.”
“Whether the sixteenth century astronomer confronted materials derived from the fourth century B.C. or
freshly composed in the fourteenth century A.D., or whether he was more! receptive to scholastic or humanist currents of thoughts, seems of less significance in this particular connection than the fact that all manners of diverse materials were being seen in the course of one life time by one pair of eyes. For
Copernicus as for Tycho, the result was heightened awareness and dissatisfaction with discrepancies in the inherent data”
Source: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change : Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe; Volumes I and II