W Quotes
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“Who ever takes and doesn't look at the back who was the owner, be certain that consider himself as the owner.”
“Who ever talks about a lifelong, intimate friendship expressing itself in the broadest possible range of conversation? If people are really alive and alert it ought to go on and on, prolonging life because there is always something more to be said.”
Source: The Rebel Angels
“Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?”
“Who ever told you that doesn't count as a dream?”
Source: Field Notes on Love
“Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!”
“Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.”
“Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you
want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other
people.”
“Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?”
“Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?”
Source: 论语
“Who expects trouble gets trouble.”
“Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.”
Source: Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory
“Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.”
Source: Selected Poems of Lord Byron
“Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.”
“Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.”
Source: Essayes
“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
“Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.”
Source: The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans
“Who feasts when the banquet doors are locked from the inside?”
“Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends
“Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.”
Source: Sophocles
“Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.”
“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
Source: The Major Works
“Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb ...
“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
Source: Unteachable
“Who flies high, easily chooses his target.”
Source: The New Land
“Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.”
“Who forgets himself in love remembers the future. (Qui s'oublie dans l'amour - Se souvient du futur)”
“Who found the material, who pursued the material and how, who bought the material, whose account is true or accurate: these might not seem consequential questions now. But they have definite implications on the other side of the film’s making and marketing, and in the wake of relationships that sustained, and relationships that broke, in the years after.”
Source: Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
“Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.”
“Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.”
Source: The Fables of John Gay Illustrated
“Who gathers the withered rose?”
Source: Novels, 1926-1929
“Who gave a fuck, Kathy thought, no one liked Putin, likeability was irrelevant, what mattered was whether you could make people numb enough to change all the laws, change the entire system, that was the game. Once you pardoned a corrupt sheriff who'd openly run 'concentration camps' for Latinos you were probably well on the way.
Numbness mattered, it was what the Nazis did, made people feel like things were moving too fast to stop and though unpleasant and eventually terrifying and appalling, were probably impossible to do anything about.”
Source: Crudo
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided on this point (Oppy 1996; Dawkins 1986; Sober 2008). Some have claimed that the biological design argument did not falter until Darwin provided a proper naturalistic explanation for adaptive complexity; others maintain that David Hume had already shattered the argument to pieces by sheer logical force several decades earlier, in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume 2007 [1779]). Elliott Sober has been among the philosophers who maintain that, as Hume was not in a position to offer a serious alternative explanation of adaptive complexity, it is hardly surprising that 'intelligent people strongly favored the design hypothesis' (Sober 2000, 36). In his most recent book, however, Sober (2008) carefully develops what he thinks is the most charitable reconstruction of the design argument, and proceeds to show why it is defective for intrinsic reasons (for earlier version of this argument, see Sober 1999, 2002). Sober argues that the design argument can be rejected even without the need to consider alternative explanations for adaptive complexity (Sober 2008, 126): 'To see why the design argument is defective, there is no need to have a view as to whether Darwin’s theory of evolution is true' (Sober 2008, 154).”
“Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,--
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon.”
Source: Infected Connection
“Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?”
“Who gave you this drink,” he asked.
“Abuela. She told me it would take away
the lovesickness.”
“Why did you pour it out into the grass?”
“Because I want to be lovesick.”
- From Querida”
“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”
“who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?
only............
a book lover.”
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.”
“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”
“Who gets to be free?
Is someone free when they don't have to think about the way people look at them or treat them because of the color of their skin?
Is someone free when they don't have to spend time on this earth with people who have hearts made of hate?
Or is someone only really free when they're no longer a part of this world?”
Source: Tyler Johnson Was Here
“Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.”
“Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?”
Source: A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014
“Who gets to decide what you want?”
“Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?”
“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?”
Source: Selected poems
“Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.”