Quotes 22801 till 22820 of 25371.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XII -
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
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What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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