W Quotes
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“Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?”
Source: I Will Teach You To Be Rich
“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
Source: The Art of War
“Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.”
“who with a heart can stomach / how much they can stomach? / all your blood in the water / and i could still wade through, / and i will again and i will again / and i will again with everyone i lose. / what i want most is to live / the rest of my life desperately / wanting to live it.”
Source: Lord of the Butterflies
“Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
Who works for money coins his very soul
Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be,
That this thing shall be added unto thee.”
Source: Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake
“Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?”
“Who would answer all the questions, fulfill all the requests? Would anyone? Could anyone? History had taught the citizens of Watts to hope for the best and expect nothing, but be prepared for the worst.”
Source: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
“Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception –but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe that they are superior to others and that they have a purpose greater than just passing along their genes to the next generation. Individuals seem to need similar delusions – about who they are and why they do what they do. They need heroes, however fraudulent… Studies show that people are more likely to accept the opinion of a confident con man than the cautious view of someone who actually knows what he is talking about. And professionals who form overconfident opinions on the basis of incorrect readings of the facts are more likely to succeed than their more competent peers who display greater doubt.
What’s more, deception works best, according to studies by psychologists, when the person doing the deceiving is fool enough to be deceived, too; that is, when he believes his own lies. That is why incompetent leaders – who are naïve enough to fall for their own guff – are such a danger to civilized life. If they are modern leaders, they must also delude themselves into thinking they know how to make the world a better place. Invariably, the answers they propose to problems are ones that bubble up from their own vanity, the essence of which is to make the rest of the world look just like them!”
Source: Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
“Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him”
“Who would awaken the past?
It shines like a sunrise
And cuts like a fine blade.”
Source: Foxmask
“Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?”
“Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.”
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.”
Source: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time
“Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
But in a dream of friendship,
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnished friends?”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H.N. Hudson
“Who would believe her now? She had no proof. It would be her word against his — the word of a lord, at that.”
Source: The Old Crones Club: A Fairytale Retelling from the Wicked Witches
“Who would believe that a teacher who withholds the information students need to pass a course merely permitted them to fail? What if that teacher said, "I didn't cause them to fail; they did it on their own"? Would anyone accept that explanation or would they accuse the teacher of not merely permitting the students to fail, but actually causing them to fail? And what if the teacher argued that he actually planned and rendered the students' failure certain for a good reason—to uphold academic standards and show what a great teacher he is by demonstrating how necessary his information is for students to pass? Would not these admissions only deepen everyone's conviction that the teacher is morally and professionally wrong?”
Source: Against Calvinism: Rescuing God's Reputation from Radical Reformed Theology
“Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Who would believe this childish discipline, received at eight years old, from the hands of a woman of thirty, should influence my propensities, my desires, my passions, for the rest of my life, and that in quite a contrary sense from what might naturally have been expected?”
“Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.”
“Who would Betsy be?"
"That's my truck," he said.
"You named it Betsy?" she asked. "For real?"
Sawyer waved what was left of his cookie at her. "You have ducks on your pj's, don't judge."
"And she was inspired by who?" Sydney said with a smirk, her eyes dropping to his lips when he turned to her. "Your first love?"
"If I would've done that," he said softly, "her name would have been Squeak."
Bam.
Sidney's heart felt like it reached out and slammed against every possible surface at once.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“Who would bring light must endure burning.”
“Who would bury their dead here?'
'They didn't put them in the earth,' Cassian said, his voice oddly muffled, as if that thick air gobbled up any echo. 'These were water burials.'
Nesta said, 'I'd rather be burned to ashes and cast to the wind then be left here.'
'Noted,' Cassian said.
'This is an evil place,' Azriel whispered. True fear shone in the shadowsinger's hazel eyes.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.”
Source: The Writing Life
“Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote to him. Uncle Saleh was across the world. A few years back, getting pregnant would have shocked Khartoum society, given my father a heart attack, dealt a blow ti my mother's marriage, and mild, modern Omar, instead of beating me, would called me a slut. And now nothing, no one. This empty space was called freedom.”
Source: Minaret
“Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.”
Source: Under Western Eyes
“Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.”
“Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?”
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?”
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”
Source: Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
“Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.”
“Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?”
Source: Moon Over Manifest
“Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.”
“Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“Who would ever understand me?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?”
“Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
“Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?”