W Quotes
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“Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.”
“Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air... I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers, and shed the blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers, in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy... protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence." He laughed. "Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.”
“Who knows most, doubts most.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.”
“Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.”
“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.”
Source: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.”
Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_
“Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?”
“Who knows the minute in the moment of last breath?”
“Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.”
“Who knows the outcome? Only the one who knows all things, all-knowing God.”
“Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Who knows the secrets in my gaze?
What holds me back when I might choke?
Who sees beyond my taut hellos
To see the grief etched on my face?
Nobody knows what lurks within;
Nobody brings me back again.”
“Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.”
“Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it”
“Who knows their personal worth doesn’t search for a happy marriage. All their relationships are happy.”
“Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.”
“WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.”
“Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton`s mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and only alive thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was the young woman on your right side of your screen who said that without the treatment she could only receive through the Affordable Care Act she herself would be dead.”
“Who knows what goes on in a marriage? Even my parents, who had a compatible marriage, had their points of contention. They had figured out how to disagree and how to find common ground.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?”
Source: Iron Fey Series Volume 1: The Iron King\Winter's Passage\The Iron Daughter\The Iron Queen\Summer's Crossing
“Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.”
“Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.”
“Who knows, what I could become, if Leroy would stop goddamn hitting me.”
Source: The Help
“Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.”
“Who knows what it was that the cable was carrying at the time, all the love notes, all the algorithms, all the financial dealings, the solicitations, the prescriptions, the solutions, the insinuations, the theories, the chess games, the sea charts, the histories, the contracts, the divorce papers, the computer hacks, the wild lies, the voices, the terror, the nonsense, the known, the unknown, the promises, the porn, the alphabet of flesh, the sing-song of skin, the million wisps of disinformation, the flotsam of our longings, the jetsam of our truths, all of it, all, suspended in a series of wet tubes at the bottom of the ocean floor.”
Source: Twist
“Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.”
“Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing: the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos, at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence?”
Source: The Lonely Man of Faith
“Who knows what may be inspired because of us.”
“Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.”
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
“Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.”
Source: Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999
“Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?”
Source: J
“Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.”
“Who knows what the future holds.”
“Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.”
“Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.”
“Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.”
Source: Intuitive Animal Connections
“Who knows what the past shall bring?”
“Who knows what the tide could bring.”
“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
Source: Under Western Eyes
“Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.”
“Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”
Source: Radiance
“Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.”
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”
Source: It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement
“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?”
Source: It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement
“Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.”
“Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.”
“Who knows whats going to happen with whole Internet Web series thing. I mean, obviously people are spending a lot more time on their computer.The great thing about it is so many short films have been done over the time and there is not a real, there is not a venue for them because everybody goes to see a feature length film so it really is a great vehicle to do these kind of short creative pieces, so its kind of fun to be a part of that and kind of see what can happen from that. But trailblazer, I don't know. I mean, that's a pretty fancy word.”