All Quotes

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
‐‐ Sinclair Lewis

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
‐‐ Theodore Roethke

What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see... we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.
‐‐ Stacy London

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
‐‐ James Cromwell

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
‐‐ Shinichi Suzuki

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
‐‐ Chief Seattle

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
‐‐ Angela Carter

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
‐‐ Italo Calvino

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

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.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

What is more immoral than war?
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
‐‐ Mary Stuart Masterson

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
‐‐ Lawrence Eagleburger

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.
‐‐ LL Cool J

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
‐‐ Oleg Cassini

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
‐‐ Kailash Kher

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
‐‐ Chris Bohjalian

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
‐‐ Samantha Power

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
‐‐ Kenny G

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
‐‐ Jim Wallis

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
‐‐ Oliver Herford

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
‐‐ Brad Sherman

What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
‐‐ Jacque Fresco

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
‐‐ Felix Dennis

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
‐‐ Jean-Francois Lyotard