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Did he who made the lamb make thee?
~ William Blake
Y?ld?zlar m?zraklar?n? aÅŸa??ya at?nca, GöÄŸü sulay?nca gözyaÅŸlar?yla, Güldü mü o, görünce eserini? Kuzuyu yaratan m? yaratt? seni?
~ William Blake
So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.
~ William Boyd
We don't sense mistakes coming, there's this crucial unforeseen factor to them. So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.
~ William Boyd
I asked him, What do you do? He smiled patiently, The typical American question. In Europe they would ask, What are you doing? Or, What are you doing now? What do I do? I listen, to the water falling. (No sound of it here but with the wind!) This is my entire occupation.
~ William Carlos Williams
You mean you won't?" he said. "You mean, you won't?" It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding
~ William Faulkner
I suppose the question to ask you, is where you been all the time you were dead?
~ William Faulkner
Do I look like a metaphysician?" "You look like a guy in an office. What exactly do you do there, Wilf?
~ William Gibson
You got a watch?" he asked Maelcum. The Zionite shook his locks. "Time be time." "Jesus," Case said, and closed his eyes.
~ William Gibson
The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like of which perhaps was never committed in human history. You think about it.
~ William Golding
Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?
~ William Goldman
Anybody want a peanut?
~ William Goldman
Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
~ William James
Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.
~ William James
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
~ William James
He didn't know what if anything it was his mother got from his father's company.
~ China Mieville
Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet?
~ Chinghiz Aitmatov
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
~ Chinua Achebe
Once they've helped patients identify specific and vivid signs of progress, they pivot to a second question, which is perhaps even more important. It's the Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?
~ Chip Heath
Wait!' I cried, asking him the question that had bothered me for a long time. 'Did you ever love Ahalya? Were you sorry that you'd ruined her life?' Indra disappeared without answering, which didn't surprise me. The gods are slippery beings.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
mother?" Yudhisthir asked. "Haven't our scriptures
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.
~ Chris Claremont
I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.
~ Chris Cleave
I wouldn't," said Sierra.
~ Chris Grabenstein