All Quotes

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
‐‐ Ang Lee

What is really beautiful must always be true.
‐‐ Stendhal

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
‐‐ Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
‐‐ James Buchanan

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
‐‐ Eileen Caddy

What is right is not always popular.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
‐‐ Jane Austen

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
‐‐ Dan Farmer

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
‐‐ Hu Shih

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
‐‐ Ken Ham

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
‐‐ Marcus Terentius Varro

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
‐‐ Alice B. Toklas

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
‐‐ Desmond Llewelyn

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
‐‐ Harold Washington

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.
‐‐ Sherry Turkle

What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
‐‐ Joan Collins

What is sought can never produce the seeking.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
‐‐ John Van Hamersveld

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
‐‐ Gene Fowler

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.
‐‐ Kevin Keegan

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
‐‐ Vincent McNabb

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
‐‐ Buddha

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
‐‐ Urs Fischer

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
‐‐ Saint Basil

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
‐‐ David Miliband

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?
‐‐ Joan Blades

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.
‐‐ Brian Weiss

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.
‐‐ Annie Besant

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi