Top 100 What Are The Quotes
#1. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
Peter Jennings
#3. On Sundays, I like to plan how I want to exit the week and what are the key things I need to get done that week. I list them, and then I do check-ins on them each morning.
Lynn Jurich
#4. What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy? ...
Daniel Defoe
#5. For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?
James Joyce
#7. I'd say "what are the odds?", but I don't believe in odds anymore. I believe in a universe with a very specific and occasionally cruel sense of humor. But its cruelty is refining, if you survive it.
(Upon learning a housemate was related to Guy Fawkes)
Adrian Lamo
#8. There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...?
A. L. Kennedy
#9. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?
Alyson Richman
#10. America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
Nancy Pearcey
#11. What are the five stages of realizing you just did something too stupid to tell your friends?
Ruth Cardello
#12. I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
Marianne Faithfull
#13. I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
Dominic Monaghan
#14. What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.
Thomas Huxley
#15. What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.
Erich Fromm
#16. People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.
Thurston Moore
#17. If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
Ricardo Semler
#18. What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
William Hazlitt
#19. What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.
Brian Andreas
#20. What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
Jeff Bridges
#22. What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions
if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
Michael Lewis
#23. What are the visual and narrative processes by which animals engage with their own representation?
Susan McHugh
#24. Who are The Verne?
What are The Verne?
Where is The Verne's next adventure?
Tom Ford
#25. But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
Thomas Day
#26. Whenever you make a choice, ask yourself two questions: "What are the consequences of this choice?" and "Will this choice bring happiness to me and to those who are affected by this choice?
Deepak Chopra
#27. I want to know the mind of God," Einstein said. "The rest are details." What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What does it mean to know the mind of God? To be aware. What are the details? Your outer purpose, and whatever happens outwardly.
Eckhart Tolle
#28. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
Rudolf Flesch
#29. For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.
R.A. Torrey
#31. We should ask ourselves; What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know that counsel if we do not listen. We cannot receive the blessings we are promised if we do not follow the counsel given
James E. Faust
#32. What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
Gravity's Rainbow, V699
Thomas Pynchon
#33. Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
Patricia Briggs
#34. What are the asses at now?" He
H.G.Wells
#35. If your opinions and commitments appear to change from year to year or decade to decade, what are the more abstract underlying convictions that have held steady, that might never have become visible without the surface variation?
Mary Catherine Bateson
#36. What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
Ratan Tata
#37. Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
#38. What are the symptoms of being fucked-up?' 'I've got crap in my life that I wish I hadn't. And I'm not good at dealing with it. Am I making sense?
Graeme Simsion
#39. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
Wendell Berry
#40. When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#41. What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
Bill Dedman
#42. Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.
Rajashree Choudhury
#43. What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.
Tom Robbins
#44. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.
Rhonda Byrne
#45. What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?
Charles Bass
#46. What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?
Jared Brock
#47. What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
John Marshall
#49. In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.
Godfrey Reggio
#50. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant
#51. Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them.
L. Susan Stebbing
#52. One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?
Clarence Jordan
#53. I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character?
Annabelle Selldorf
#55. What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
Mark Twain
#56. If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit ... What are the limits?
Ferran Adria
#57. You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
Vince Lombardi
#58. What are the chances of a cobra biting Harold, Jeeves?"
"Slight, I should imagine, sir. And in such an event, knowing the boy as intimately as I do, my anxiety would be entirely for the snake.
P.G. Wodehouse
#59. Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
Colley Cibber
#60. Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.
Li Shufu
#61. Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?
Shirley Jackson
#62. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#63. So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
Paul Krugman
#65. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?
Rick Perlstein
#66. From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
Enrico Colantoni
#67. What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?
John Powell
#68. What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.
Victor Hugo
#69. What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Ray Bradbury
#70. What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? ... First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.
J. Michael Straczynski
#71. What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
Sam Harris
#72. Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.
Robert Breault
#73. Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.
Agnes Varda
#75. Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
Alphonsus Liguori
#76. You have to ask yourself, what are the things that matter to you most in your life? If you have to have a latte every day that'snice to have right now, but if you take that latte every day right now, you may wind up eating cat food when you are 70. And you have to decide which is worse.
William J. Bernstein
#77. What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?
William J. Clinton
#78. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?
Terry Tempest Williams
#79. What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??
What are the differences?
Deyth Banger
#80. I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'
Ken Follett
#81. Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?
Matt Haig
#82. [Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."
[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"
She nods again."It's in my top three or four."
"What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise.
Jennifer E. Smith
#83. My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
Nancy Pelosi
#84. 10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
Alan Coren
#85. Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#86. Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?
Mason Cooley
#87. This is all about knowing a market, ... and it's so thorough that even if you don't have personal experience in that market you can still go into it and find out, what are the things that people will pay money for!
Perry Marshall
#88. What are the rules," The cop said.
"There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself.
"Do whatever you want ... but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.
J.R. Ward
#89. We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
Nigel Farage
#90. What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
Christian De Duve
#91. On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#92. What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#93. It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?
Bill Jensen
#94. What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive?
Timothy Ferriss
#95. What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's Man of the Year.
Julian Assange
#96. One of us needs to get laid."
"Just one of us?"
"What are the odds of both of us getting laid?
Tucker Max
#97. What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?
Edward Thomson
#98. Where are the eggs of monsters most likely laid? What nest incubates them until they hatch? What are the toxic scraps that nourish them to adulthood?
James Patterson
#99. When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.
Cary Fukunaga
#100. Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is what are the most usual; and experience seems to show that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so.
Adam Smith
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