W Quotes
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“Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.”
“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized”
“Who can tell what a day brings?”
“Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.”
Source: The Awakening
“Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?”
Source: The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni
“Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?”
“Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.”
“Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.”
“Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.”
“Who can understand how a child is formed in a womb of woman?”
“Who can understand how I mourn for my pets unless they have mourned for a pet?”
“Who can understand how life begins in the womb of a woman?”
“Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?”
Source: Killing Time
“Who can understand the profound mystery of God?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Who can understand the workings of fate, after all? Far greater minds than mine had tried and failed, to arrive at a conclusion.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of the cross which is hid from the wise and prudent. Reason must retire. She cannot understand that "God hides his power in weakness, his wisdom in folly, his goodness in severity, his justice in sins, his mercy in anger."
How amazing that God in Christ should do all this; that the Most High, the Most Holy should
be All Loving too; that the ineffable Majesty should stoop to take upon himself our flesh, subject to hunger and cold, death and desperation. We see him lying in the feedbag of a donkey, laboring in a carpenter's shop, dying a derelict under the sins of the world. The gospel is not so much a miracle as a marvel, and every line is suffused with wonder.”
Source: Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
“Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?”
“Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?”
“Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?”
Source: 道德经
“Who can walk in the shoes of the sacrifice of the Lamb,the Lord Jesus Christ?”
“Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.”
“Who can we trust with a monopoly of the planet killer weapons and unlimited powers of inspection and arrest? Why, a country big and modern enough to make peace-keeping a major industry; but not big enough to conquer anyone else or force its will on anyone without the support of a majority of nations; and reasonably well thought of by everyone. In short, Sweden.”
Source: Tau Zero
“Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?”
“Who can worry about a career? Have a life.”
“Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated. Second series
“Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she? If you saw one Owens sister at the grocery, the other would be right beside her. If one was working in the garden, making certain the rows of herbs were weeded, her sister would be there as well, carrying a basket to collect the dandelion greens.”
Source: The Book of Magic
“Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.”
“Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?”
“Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.”
“Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.”
Source: Medea
“Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.”
“Who cannot sit in silence cannot stand in storms.”
Source: Wisdom by AI: The Leader's Compass
“Who care's what other people think? If you are happy with yourself, you will get by just fine with them.”
“Who cared about manners when their whole life was falling apart?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?”
Source: Scythe
“Who cared? She was going to meet Tom Benton and convince him to take her on. Pancreatic cancer, I’m coming for you.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.”
Source: Stolen
“Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.”
“Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.”
“Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.”
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“Who cares about another dead white woman in the land of the Lakota?”
Source: In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
“Who cares about everyone? What about me?”
“Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia”
Source: Keep Me In Mind
“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”
Source: Three plays
“Who cares about heaven when you have a place in someone’s heart?”
Source: A Lover's Will
“Who cares about judges when you have each other and you are creating something together? Winning only matters when you don’t have what dancing really is.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself.”
Source: Vox
“Who cares about my voice? There are more important things going on in the world. I want to make a difference. I’m going to law school. I want to become a public defender.”
I couldn’t believe she’d give up singing to work with scumbags like me. “By the time a guy ends up in front of the judge, it’s too late to make a difference.”
“It’s never too late to make a difference,” she said.
“All I’m saying is that with your music you could have an influence on people before they end up in trouble.”
Source: Take Me There