All Quotes

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.
‐‐ Theresa May

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
‐‐ Oliver Cromwell

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
‐‐ Norman Douglas

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
‐‐ Tahar Rahim

What is art but a way of seeing?
‐‐ Saul Bellow

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
‐‐ Rabindranath Tagore

What is art? Nature concentrated.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

What is art? Prostitution.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
‐‐ Cao Cao

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
‐‐ Peter Doig

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
‐‐ Vita Sackville-West

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
‐‐ Alan Alda

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
‐‐ Charlotte Bunch

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

What is best and most necessary usually happens.
‐‐ Knute Nelson

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
‐‐ Douglas Wilder

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
‐‐ Susan Griffin

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
‐‐ Max Jacob

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
‐‐ Kenny Dalglish

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
‐‐ David Puttnam

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
‐‐ Douglas Southall Freeman

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
‐‐ Lara St. John

What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
‐‐ Beth Brooke

What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
‐‐ Steve Martin