W Quotes
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“Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.”
“Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.”
Source: The Flames of Rome
“Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
“Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.”
“Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“Who shall distinguish between the law by which a brook finds its river, the instinct by which a bird performs its migrations, and the knowledge by which a man steers his ship round the globe? The globe is the richer for the variety of its inhabitants.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.”
“Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?”
“Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures
“Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!”
“Who shall know what lies ahead?;
Whether joys nor sorrows,
Whether pleasure nor pain,
Whether peace nor un-pleasant things,
Whether gain nor loss,
Whether victory nor defeat,
Whether light nor darkness,
Whether warm nor cold,
Whether plentiful nor scarcity,
Whether success nor failure,
Whether health nor sickness,
Whether strength nor weakness,
Whether happiness nor sadness,
Whether life nor death.”
“Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”
“Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.”
Source: Fraser's Magazine
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?”
“Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day?”
“Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.”
“Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
Source: Vintage Hammett
“Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures me that anyone who's ever met me would have reason to shoot me, so I must admit with all candor that I have no idea. Was it you?" "If I'd shot you I wouldn't have missed," she said. "Was that wishful thinking or are you in fact a practiced shot?" "Desire would have made up for lack of expertise.”
Source: Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless
“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
Source: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“Who should be King save him who makes us free?”
Source: Tennyson's Idylls of the King
“Who should be like thorns?
The one who grows flowers amidst predators!”
Source: THORNS OF ESLANDA
“Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.”
“Who should I send for now?”
Using the last of his strength, Sebastian managed to drag her hand up to his mouth. “You,” he whispered, holding her fingers to his lips. “Just you.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.”
“Who should open the door of success for you...you that's who!”
Source: The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams
“Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.”
“Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.”
“Who should serve the Lord’s Supper? Well in the early church, considering Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, the host of the home presumably was the host of the meal, and as I have said, really, the Lord is the host at his own table, not any of us. We are all just participants, we are all celebrants. I don’t think there is any biblical warrant for the serving of the Lord’s Supper to be confined to ministers, but I do think that anyone who undertakes such a sacred task should be trained to do it in a respectful manner.”
Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper
“Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe?”
“Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.”
“Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.”
Source: The Country Parson ; The Temple
“Who sings lamentations for our bones? Who remembers our genocide?
Three million people...
can you even c o u n t to three million?
People.
Abbu never let me look at the bodies, but his memory contains them all.”
Source: Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems
“Who sings next?” someone asks.
“I will,” Megan says, standing up. She clears her throat dramatically and puts a hand out in front of her like an opera singer. “Me me me me me,” she sings, warming up. People giggle at her theatrics.
Her mate Cashol nods. “It is a simple song, but I like it. The words are easy to remember.”
Source: Barbarian's Hope
“Who sings of all of Love's eternity
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.”
“Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. In the cradle a child is screaming. An old man sits over his death, and anyone young enough talks to his love, breathes into her lips, looks into her eyes.”
Source: Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems
“Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch
“Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.”
“Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.”
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
Source: Aurora Leigh. Author's ed