W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a bunch of rot,' Jo exclaimed, snatching the letter out of Meg's hand. 'I won't marry Jo to Laurie for anything! Especially not to please anyone!'
'Certainly not yourself,' Meg muttered.
'What?'
'Nothing, dear.”
Source: Jo & Laurie
“What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.”
Source: Untouched Water
“What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.”
Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind of still life in which the sun shone on the flowers with more than natural brilliance, giving them the high lights of porcelain.”
Source: The Goshawk
“What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.”
Source: Gilbert Stuart
“What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“What a campfire wants from you is to constantly feed it with wood; what a wood wants from you is to never bring it closer to the fire! You see, as awareness increases, your mind starts to hear even the wishes of what you call inanimate!”
“What a charming place!” Bess remarked, as they reached a small, white, two-story colonial house surrounded by a white picket fence with a gate. Flowers, especially old-fashioned American varieties, grew in profusion in the front yard.”
Source: The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
“What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.”
“What a child digs for becomes his own possession.”
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.”
Source: West with the Night
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), who sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.”
Source: West with the Night
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.”
“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I
found out Alpo was dog food.”
“What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!”
“What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?”
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.”
Source: Pensées
“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.”
“What a coincidence, they both go to College and I'm a rapist!”
“What a comfort is friendship in this world.”
“What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.”
Source: Choice Notes on the Psalms
“What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“What a comfort & pleasure it was to me to meet a girl with so much intellectual quality & such strong reserves of noble sentiment,” he wrote, adding that he hoped they would lay the foundations of a “frank & clear-eyed friendship” with “many serious feelings of respect.”
Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
“What a comfort to know that God is a poet.”
“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!”
Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA
“What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!”
“What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn’t die, it doesn’t want to die.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.”
“What a cool name. Where'd you get it?"
"I've always had it.”
Source: Waiting for the Storm
“What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.”
“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.”
“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.”
“What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.”
“What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.”
Source: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
“What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.”
Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.”
Source: The Napoleonic Trilogy
“What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.”
“What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.”
“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.”
“What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.”
Source: Bending The Universe
“What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!”