W Quotes
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“Who knew those detached words
could conjure silent vows― flaming―
fide et amor ― nothing lasts forever―”
Source: Under the Rose
“Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.”
“Who knew what happened in a marriage, what bargains and compromises people struck?”
Source: Henry, Himself
“Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.”
Source: The Flamethrowers
“Who knew winter meant vegetables? Chef. No asparagus shipped in from Peru, no avocados from Mexico, no eggplants from Asia. What I assumed would be a season of root vegetables and onions was actually the season of chicories. Chef had his sources, which he guarded. Scott walked through the restaurant in the morning with unmarked brown paper bags, sometimes crates.
He told me that the chicories would really brighten when the first freezes came. It sweetened their natural bitterness. I could barely keep track of them. The curly tangle of frisée didn't seem the same species as the heliotrope balls of radicchio, or the whitened lobes of endive. Their familial trait was a bite---I thought of them as lettuces that bit back. Scott agreed. He said we should be hard on them. Eggs, anchovies, cream, a streak of citrus.
"Don't trust the French with your vegetables," Scott said. "The Italians know how to let something breathe.”
Source: Sweetbitter
“Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.”
“Who knew, when you were watching the Verizon ad and the guy said, 'Can you hear me now,' that was really just a mic check for the Obama administration.”
“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem
“Who know what life is going to be like. I mean, there was no demand for the spaces before. It's not like people were flocking to Sochi before; they just didn't have enough hotel rooms and arenas to fill the need. So that's what we'll look at when we go there. But we'll wait a few years until things kind of return to normal.”
“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
“Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!”
“Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea
“Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO expert to tell him what crops to grow or what seeds to use. Give him the seeds he asks for, and he will do the rest. Don't tell him how to renovate his irrigation system: give him the necessary equipment and he will do the job far better than us.”
“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?”
“Who knows better than you what it means to have a commander-in-chief who lived his entire life, who lived throughout the entire Cold War, and doesn't know what the nuclear triad is? It's absolutely astonishing. And so it's terrific to have Joe Dunford and you know, perhaps John Bolton and other people in positions of trust.”
“Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?”
“Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?”
“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”
“Who knows but the world may end tonight”
“Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens”
“Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.”
“Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.”
Source: The Complete Works
“Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.”
Source: The works of John Donne
“Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.”
“Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?”
Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.”
“Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!”
“Who knows how the devil look like? You could of look at him with your eyes right now, and you don't know it is him”
Source: Escaping Communism, It's Like Escaping Hell
“Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead”
“Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.”
“Who knows how you should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.”
“Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.”
“Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?”
Source: Conjectures on Original Composition: In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison
“Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?”
“Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?”
“who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves”
Source: Tulips and Chimneys
“Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness.”
“Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”
“Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.”
“Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?”
“Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless.”
Source: Angel Tech: A Modern Shamans Guide to Reality Selection
“Who knows, maybe it's totally awesome after death. We just don't know, so we are afraid, and so we often try to hold on here "tooth and nail"…”
Source: Error: The Hidden Programs of the Human Body - Break Free from Autopilot and Redefine Conscious Living
“Who knows? Maybe you both live happily ever after, or maybe three months from now you end the relationship because he doesn't squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom...nothing is guaranteed." - Olivia Harper, Secret Need”
Source: Secret Need