All Quotes

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
‐‐ John Gresham Machen

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.
‐‐ Louis Fischer

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
‐‐ John McEnroe

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.
‐‐ David Bohm

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
‐‐ Itay Talgam

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
‐‐ Hattie McDaniel

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
‐‐ John Dos Passos

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
‐‐ Amber Riley

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
‐‐ Lewis Carroll

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
‐‐ Robert Musil

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
‐‐ Benjamin Spock

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

What is the value of your existence?
‐‐ Stephen Evans

What is the world coming to?
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
‐‐ Lord Byron

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
‐‐ Jennifer Beals

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
‐‐ George Vecsey

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
‐‐ Aeschylus

What is there that money will not do?
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
‐‐ Jules Verne

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.
‐‐ James Fenton

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
‐‐ Isabel Yosito

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
‐‐ Abraham Cahan

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

What is to give light must endure burning.
‐‐ Anton Wildgans

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
‐‐ Voltaire

What is too much? There is no such thing!
‐‐ Roberto Cavalli

What is tricky for those hoping to utilize such weapons is that TATP bombs are quite difficult to make because their ingredients, when combined, are highly unstable and can explode easily if mishandled.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

What is true belongs to me!
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
‐‐ Jason Epstein

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.
‐‐ Steve Southerland

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
‐‐ Millicent Fawcett

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi