Quotes 22941 till 22960 of 25371.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
Source: The Cat's Table (2011) -
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
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What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.
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What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
Source: The Remains of the Day (2009) 23 -
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
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