W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a cruel side effect, to lose the scent of cookies in the over, the sweet fragrance of a meadow. Had I known...”
Source: The Days I Loved You Most
“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)
“What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)
“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”
Source: A Step of Faith: A Novel
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.”
Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume
“What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Literary Touchstone Edition
“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”
Source: It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest
“What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.”
“What a curious power words have.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
“What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!”
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“What a cute man! Hey, I may be pregnant, but I can still see!”
“What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.”
Source: Parachutes & kisses
“What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down, but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally.”
“What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances.
Knight of a Trillion stars”
“What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama.”
“What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.”
“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”
Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia
“What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.”
“What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”
“What a deformed thief this fashion is.”
“What a delight it is to respect people!”
“What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.”
Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters
“What a delight to desire to pray?”
“What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.”
“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.”
Source: Letters
“What a delightful thing this perspective is!”
“What a demanding and fast-paced world we live in!”
“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.”
“What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.”
“What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.”
Source: Myself
“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128”
Source: Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!”
Source: The Journalism: 1834-1846
“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
“What a dichotomy she was! She seemed timid until he spoke derisively of her title, and then she spoke in an icy ferocity. A few minutes later, with a few words artfully couched to sound like a threat, he once again reduced her to diffidence.
If he was not careful, this woman would fascinate him.”
Source: One Kiss From You
“What a difference a day can make. Do you remember just yesterday he was trying to stop us from killing each other? The boy scout. Now it's all changed. I see that look in your eyes John. You weren't ready before, and I don't know what happened, but now you are.”
Source: United as One
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)
“What a difference one person can make!”
“What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.”
“What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring”
“What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!”
“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.”
Source: Self-portrait
“What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.”
“What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.”
“What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!”
Source: Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author
“What a dire time to be attracted to men.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That