W Quotes
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“Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.”
“Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.”
Source: The lais of Marie de France
“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”
“Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.”
“Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.”
“Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In this life you had time only for a certain amount of thinking, and there was no need to waste any of it on people who were not threatening.”
Source: A Garden of Earthly Delights
“Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”
Source: The Carrie Diaries
“Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.”
“Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!”
“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!”
“Whoever we understand, we love.”
“Whoever welcomes the light, live in love.”
“Whoever welcomes the truth of salvation, take no pleasure in sin.”
“Whoever welcomes the truth of salvation, takes no pleasure in sin.”
“Whoever were the inventors of such tales, whether fact or fiction, or facts concerning others and fictitiously attributed to Jove, words fail to express what a low opinion these fable-mongers must have formed of human nature to assume that men could endure such lies with patience.”
Source: City of God
“Whoever, wherever, you are, may your travels begin and end with the fundamental human right called love.”
Source: Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
“Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.”
Source: The Essays
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”
“Whoever will be president, if they wish to save America from the Wrath of God and the course that America is on, which will bring about America's destruction, they must consider justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown. If they do not consider that by separating the Black man and woman and allowing us to go free to build a nation of our own, this and this alone will turn away the wrath of God, will lessen the storms, and lessen the increased Judgment of God using the forces of nature.”
“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.”
“Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.”
“Whoever will not be a hammer in history, will be an anvil.”
“Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.”
“Whoever will take the trouble of reading the book ascribed to Isaiah, will find it one of the most wild and disorderly compositions ever put together; it has neither beginning, middle, nor end; and, except a short historical part, and a few sketches of history in the first two or three chapters, is one continued incoherent, bombastical rant, full of extravagant metaphor, without application, and destitute of meaning; a school-boy would scarcely have been excusable for writing such stuff; it is (at least in translation) that kind of composition and false taste that is properly called prose run mad.”
Source: The age of reason
“Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.”
“Whoever wins the technology war wins the war”
“Whoever wishes for peace must first learn to pray.”
“Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.”
“Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.”
Source: The Principles of Science: Book IV. Inductive investigation. Book V. Generalization, analogy, and classification. Book VI. Reflections on the results and limits of scientific method
“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”
“Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.”
Source: Works
“Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.”
“Whoever wishes to be forgiven, must forsake evil ways.”
“Whoever wishes to be saved, should call on the Saviour, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
“Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.”
“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”
Source: The Prince
“Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.”
“Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.”
“Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.”
Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”
“Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.”
“Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there is scarcely any remedy.”
“Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.”
“Whoever wishes to please God, should not participate in doing evil.”
“Whoever wishes to resurrect must first repent.”
“Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth”
“Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.”