W Quotes
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“Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em.
Let those eradicate who can
Man's inhumanity to man
Through teaching boys to kiss the Flag,
Keep their rooms tidy, kick a fag,
Follow the leader, mind the rules,
Blunt and ignore the only tools
That interest the half-mature.”
Source: Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
“Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask."
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No––"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.”
Source: The Phoenix Endangered
“Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.”
“Well we got nine and you can't score more than that”
“Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.”
“Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.”
“Well, we have to have something to do in life. I once read that; “A man said to a wise sage sitting by the road, why don't you teach all others to have an enlightenment, so they can be a sage guru like you, the sage replied how can I teach anyone anything when nothing in the world is real” … and that stuck with me”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“Well, we have to take what’s handed out to us in this world, parents and children alike.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.” I hated that phrase. It was code for, “I know you’re too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I’m going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.”
Source: August Moon
“Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.”
Source: Love All the People (New Edition)
“Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.”
“Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be honest with myself and look inside myself and whatever comes out usually just reflects or depicts what I'm going through in my life at that time.”
“Well, we outlawed religion. Seemed a rather destructive habit. Anyone caught practising it gets sent straight to Hell.”
Source: Scharlette Doesn't Matter and Goes Time Travelling
“Well, we're all addicts of some sort...part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don't want, don't need, and don't have”
Source: Mary Jane
“Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."
Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.”
Source: Twin Loyalties: From The Chronicles Of Tar Ponds City
“Well we shan't be at school for ever," said Nancy. "We'll be grown up, and then we'll live here all the year round."...
..."I shall be going to sea someday," said John, "and so will Roger. But we'll always come back here on leave."
"I shall bring my monkey," said Roger.
"And the parrot shall always come," said Titty.”
“Well, we should probably leave. Before someone comes in and finds us all in here and thinks I'm having the night of my life.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.'
'Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.'
So many lessons, it was true: art and music and ice-skating; Lily's every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments--chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school and then, presumably, the career of her dreams. What costs had been sunk, what objections had been suppressed, to deliver their daughter into the open and waiting arms of her beautiful life.”
Source: Cartwheel
“Well we usually just try to do a mix from all the albums so if somebody just has one they don't get bummed out that they don't hear anything from that record, then a couple songs you'll only hear live. Just kind of wing it you know? And sometimes on a tour you'll get with a set-list you like and you kind of just stick with that.”
“Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.”
Source: Letters
“Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.”
“Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.”
“Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.”
“Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real”
“Well we've got to do a lot of kung fu choreography, which was really cool. Like I have, you know, like the big hammer that I use, kind of like a staff in a sense. So I get to use that like a really cool weapon. Kung fu style. And it's just really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It just feels really rewarding.”
“Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.”
“Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.”
“Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.”
“Well, well. Isn't it a small world? And a peach of a world, too. A true little corker.”
Source: Dorothy Parker: Selected Stories
“Well, well; no more. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, black-smith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? - What wert thou making there?”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.”
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
“Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.”
“Well, well, well, if it isn't Ms. Detention. How was it by the way? I’m sure your father was very proud.”
Source: The Summer of Secrets
“Well, well, well. Look at what the search criteria dragged in.”
Source: Arsenic and Alibis
“Well, well, well, look who’s here riding solo.”
Victor would make Al Pacino seem gigantic,” said Conner.
You two can look eye to eye my friend.”
God only lets things grow until they’re perfect—some of us didn’t take as long as others. The ladies call us fun-sized.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“Well, well, well. Tickle my Elmo ass silly. I was sitting across from a person who enjoyed talking to dead people, and if they wouldn’t talk, then by God, he’d just wake their corpses up instead. Next to him was a moody, chain-smoking vampire who just might be bipolar and smoked like a corncob pipe.”
Source: Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between
“Well? Well? What do you wait for? Can you not see my warrior requires assistance ere he will stand at attention for you? Come and play with him, wife.”
That tiny thing was supposed to be a warrior?”
Source: Prisoner of My Desire
“Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?”
Source: It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained
“Well, what about that storm that blew the crooked road straight?”
“The same wind that blowed so hard the sun came up late and Sunday didn’t get here until late Tuesday evening?” Pastor Patton joined in.
“That’s musta been why I missed church last week,” Mr. Winston said.
“You missed church because you went fishing!” Pastor Patton retorted.
Mr. Winston turned to Spoon Man. “Save me, Spoon Man,” he pleaded. “Tell us a story before the pastor sends me to damnation for a fishin’ trip!”
“Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily ... Those are the goals. It's very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don't have conflict here.”
“Well. What are you proposing?” This was one of my father’s favorite questions to ask, ever the businessman.
Always calm.
Always allowing his opponent to lay their cards on the table first.
That’s how he survived the weapons business so long.
Until, of course, he didn’t”
Source: Broken Phoenix
“Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves.”
Source: Saint Joan
“Well, what do we do now?" Caramon asked, sitting astride his horse and looking both up and down the stream.
" 'You're' the expert on women," Raistlin retorted.
"All right, I made a mistake," Caramon grumbled. "That doesn't help us. It'll be dark soon, and then we'll never find her trail. I haven't heard you come up with any helpful suggestions," he grumbled, glancing at his brother balefully. "Can't you magic up something?"
"I would have 'magicked up' brains for you long time ago, if I could have," Raistlin snapped peevishly. "What would you like me to do?-make her appear out of thin air or look for her in my crystal ball? No, I won't waste my strength. Besides it's not necessary. Have you a map, or did you manage to think that far ahead?”
“Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?”
“Well? What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
Source: Circe
“Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!”
Source: The Love Of Three Oranges: A Play For The Theatre That Takes The Commedia Dell'arte Of Carlo Gozzi And Updates It For The New Millennium
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?"
"Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we enter the slow theme-and-variations movement.
How good it is to pay this quintet, to play it, not to work at it - to play for our own joy, with no need to convey anything to anyone outside our ring of recreation, with no expectation of a future stage, of the too-immediate sop of applause. The quintet exists without us yet cannot exist without us. It sings to us, we sing into it, and somehow, through these little black and white insects clustering along five thin lines, the man who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed speaks into us across land and water and ten generations, and fills us here with sadness, here with amazed delight.”
Source: An Equal Music
“Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on marrying the only male nurse not to have a full set of Barbara Streisand records? Why did you pick him, anyway? Were there no flight attendants in your village?'
'Only Jeff,' [Amy replied].
'Ah.'...
'I picked Rory, always Rory, because he is just like you,' I [Amy] yelled at him. 'He is sweet and understanding and funny and he always tries to do the right thing. Plus you both run the same way.'
'We do not.'
'Do so.”
Source: Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.”
Source: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt