Top 100 What It Quotes
#1. Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.
Mooji
#2. Take the blame that belongs to you, and nothing else. I'm asking you to look it in the eye and face it for what it is.
C.J. Redwine
#3. Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes.
John Eldredge
#4. The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
Jim Rohn
#5. Just how many soldiers do you think I can fight on my own?" Alice asked.
"As many as necessary," Hatcher said. "I believe in you, Alice."
She felt for the first time that she wanted to kiss him, that she wanted to know what it was like when she chose it. So she did.
Christina Henry
#6. She had lost interest in her marriage. There was nothing else to say. It was a prison.
'No, I'll tell you what it is , I'm indifferent to it . I am bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false.They're deceiving themselves.
James Salter
#7. And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way - it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn.
David Gaider
#8. It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.
Ethan Hawke
#9. Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I'm not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you.
Claudia Gray
#10. I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.
Jeff Garcia
#11. Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.
James Adams
#12. To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment.
Vivian Swift
#13. The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#14. I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.
M T Anderson
#15. I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.
Kevin Brockmeier
#16. Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
Reynolds Price
#17. Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
Tori Amos
#18. And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.
Peter David
#19. A person ought to be able to marry men or women ... No, I'm serious. Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is. - Holly Golightly
Truman Capote
#20. You know what it is about someone that makes them a friend? A friend doesn't just say things; a friend does.
Bob Goff
#21. I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
Kyrie Irving
#23. If at war, understand what it takes to win: Set a goal, define victory and fully support the effort. Leave no doubt that you respect the troops and appreciate their service.
Brad Wenstrup
#24. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.
Bruce Bairnsfather
#25. Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.
Sylvia Plath
#26. Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
Robert Breault
#27. I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.
Channing Tatum
#28. But I can hardly remember what it felt like. It's like everything that happens to you. It doesn't feel real.
Sebastian Faulks
#29. Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. Mole in the darkness, making him tingle through and through with its very familiar appeal, even while yet he could not clearly remember what it was. He stopped dead in his tracks, his nose searching hither and thither in its efforts to recapture the fine filament, the telegraphic current,
Kenneth Grahame
#31. You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.
Jennifer Donnelly
#32. It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#33. Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#34. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
George H. W. Bush
#35. My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#36. The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.
Rodman Philbrick
#37. I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human ... even if you're not human.
Julie Kagawa
#38. Coffee. It was decisive. Without their women, their chosen drink would always be what it had been.
Christine Feehan
#39. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?
Haruki Murakami
#40. every weekday morning at that exact time, barring holidays, major illnesses, or snow over her boot tops. As far as anybody knew, she didn't actually have a schedule written out, but were her day divided out on paper, that's what it would say. Courthouse steps 8:59 a.m. Out of bed at 7:30, bran
A.H. Gabhart
#41. The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
Mark Epstein
#42. I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.
Bill Maher
#43. It tells us that it is the Entrepreneurial Perspective that says it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.
Anonymous
#44. I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
Kathryn Lasky
#45. Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
Francis Chan
#46. London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
Boris Johnson
#47. We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.
Henry Giroux
#48. Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.
John Henry Newman
#49. That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.
Zhuangzi
#50. A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
Elizabeth Edwards
#51. The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
Tom Stoppard
#52. I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.
David Bowie
#53. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN
Chaz Thompson
#54. One of the most effective ways for a system of authority to tout its virtues is not to speak of them directly, but to create a particularly vivid image of their absolute negation - of what it claims life would be like in the total absence of, say, patriarchal authority, or capitalism, or the state.
David Graeber
#55. Charlie and Daniel think money and happiness are not related. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to a body. To a mind.
Nicola Yoon
#56. That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?
Don DeLillo
#57. I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison
#58. You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
Robert Plant
#59. I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.
Adele
#60. Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is
Elliott Smith
#61. There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.
John Otway
#62. No family is ever what it seems from the outside.
Lady Violet
#63. I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is ...
Peter Andrews
#64. I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.
Rachel Klein
#65. Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Seneca The Younger
#66. Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.
Rumi
#67. She glanced down at the contents of her plate. Just tell him what it is. Simple. Look at it and say what it is. "Sloppy Joe," she managed.
"Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace.
Kelly Creagh
#68. You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."
Lenny Kravitz
#69. One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.
David Markson
#70. I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.
Makoto Shinkai
#71. Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
John Hurt
#72. Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.
Aminatta Forna
#73. When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
Keith Haring
#74. We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.
Bob Bourne
#75. Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
Robert Fulghum
#76. There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.
Bill Cosby
#78. I mean, of course that's a theoretical question, and we don't know what it would be for, and we don't know how many numbers there are. I am against American combat troops being in Syria and Iraq.
Hillary Clinton
#79. If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
Billy Graham
#80. Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.
David Plotz
#81. Stop moving!" Hermione ordered them. "I know what this is - it's Devil's Snare!"
"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#82. In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.
Stephen King
#83. If that's what it takes". Jack had the confidence of a man who knew he had all the exits guarded. "Location 1044
Sophie Oak
#84. Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.
Cassandra Clare
#85. I don't know what it is with you and that asshole. Four years and a bad breakup later and you're still in a fucking chemical romance with basketball Ken.
Tarryn Fisher
#86. I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
Evan Dando
#87. The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
Charles Bukowski
#88. Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
Jeb Bush
#89. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#90. Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if you're singing properly, depending on who you're mimicking.
Laura Bell Bundy
#91. I want to know what it is to love, to hate, to lust, to kill. I want it all. And I shouldn't
Christine Fonseca
#92. It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.
Archibald Alexander
#93. The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.
Damon Albarn
#94. And it was funny, that they call it falling, because that was what it was. The ground giving up underneath you. The surge of air. He did not stand a chance.
Bill Cheng
#95. It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
Jodi Picoult
#96. Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
Erma Bombeck
#97. I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.
Jenny Saville
#98. It does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.
Clarence Darrow
#99. Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.
Each thing only reminds us of what it is
And it's only what nothing else is.
The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing.
(Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).
Alberto Caeiro
#100. Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?
Django Wexler
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