W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a foreign concept it is to die, to cough up what you are as if it is no more than mucus pooled at the back of your throat, and perish.”
Source: American Elsewhere
“What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!”
Source: Going Solo
“What a foul mouth she had,” he told me after finishing a bottle of wine, “but she sure knew how to love a man.”
To say I was uncomfortable to hear my father speak like that about a woman was an understatement. The fact that it wasn’t my mother made it even worse.”
Source: The Spanish Daughter
“What a frail but persistent weapon civilization is: how fragile the handful of concepts: yet tough as wire.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.”
“What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.'
He's right; that would be a shockingly freeing thought.
'Stop waiting,' Madoc says. 'Sink those pretty teeth into something.'
I give him a sharp look, trying to decide if he is making fun of me. I lean down and write in the dirt and the crust of my own dried blood. Monsters have teeth like mine.
He grins as though I am finally getting his point. 'That they do.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.”
“What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.”
“What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.”
“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.”
Source: Confession of a child of the century
“What a fuckin' mess. A goddamn clusterfuck".
"Chief, is clusterfuck one word or two?" Jethro asked.
"What?"
"Never mind".
"Get back to the goddamn station".
"Yessir".”
Source: The Trees
“What a fucking charade.
Happy. That shit isn’t in our cards. — Duke”
Source: Fix Up
“What a fucking tapestry woven by mad and sensitive egos; sometimes, the flatulence of words blows the intention out the window, but it is just a few steps backwards. I get so near to getting into detail about people and things, then like a pinball machine, my thoughts bang off sideways to some other peg and hang there for a nanosecond only to be tossed on somewhere else. Where is that still, quiet place of examination?”
“What a funny and charming accent! Did you say it was New York you came from, Miss Hunter - the Bowery?"
Gay lay down and yawned, and pulled the blanketing swaths of grass over herself. "Pity you weren't properly smacked in your younger days, Lady Jane. Good night.”
Source: Gay Hunter
“What a funny old world,
Thinking they could cage her,
& make her fear her future;
Apprently they didn't know her well enough,
The cage, gave her wings to fly.”
“What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.”
“What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.”
“What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the decades.”
Source: Hide
“What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.”
Source: Gone Girl: A Novel
“What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.”
“What a gentle, pleasing flavor! It's as if I've taken a bite of powdery snow! Using that special explosion oven, she baked thin sheets of piecrust at a high temperature until they were nice and crispy... layering them together to create a mille-feuille! One bite and they crumble into delicate flakes... which then meld with the elegantly smooth and sweetly rich meringue created by the blades of her chain carving knife!
"Excellently done! With every bite I take...
... my mouth fills with flavorful joy. It's so good I can't help but writhe in my seat!"
What?! Out of nowhere... my tongue was assaulted with an explosion of thick, full-bodied sweetness?
"Ah! There are flakes of chocolate in between the mille-feuille layers?"
"I call those my CLUSTER CHOCO CHIPS. I mixed almond powder and mint leaves into chocolate and then chilled it until it was good and hard."
Crushing that chocolate with a sledgehammer, I deployed the fragments into the piecrust, set to explode with just enough firepower! Protected by the layers of crust, the chocolate didn't melt during baking and was instead tempered... resulting in chocolate chips that have the crunch and richness of baking chocolate!
The more you eat, the more you trip, setting off a chain of explosions...
... as if triggering a cluster bomb!
"These are the specs of what I have dubbed...
... my CLUSTER BOMB CAKE!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 34 [Shokugeki no Souma 34]
“What a gift it is to get a second chance at life when the worst is past." Ruth Behar, the author”
Source: Lucky Broken Girl
“What a gift it was to be inconvenienced. when we are, we always have the choice to look, listen, and delight in the beauty that is before us. We have to train ourselves to look for light and hope, no matter if we are moving at our preferred pace or not..
I was where I was meant to be to be, even when I thought I should be somewhere else by then.”
Source: How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage – The Perfect Christian Graduation Gift to Celebrate Your Grad
“What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“What a gift we’ve been given to feel such a conflicting intensity of pleasure! All at once, we feel invigorated during a massive release of built up intention and anxiety. Both lovers hidden in our own little pockets of private pleasure, and quite possibly the most visible we can ever be in our lives.”
“What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.”
“What a gigantic step it is not to move.”
Source: THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy
“What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.”
Source: Les Misérables
“What a glorious day!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.”
“What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.”
“What a glorious morning this is!”
“What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States.”
“What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish...that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?”
“What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages.”
“What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.”
“What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us.”
“What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.”
“What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.”
Source: Recollections and Letters
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text
“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it! -”
“What a good morning it was. Tyler stood before her, six-plus feet of denim-clad hotness. A woodsy scent wafted toward her, and she inhaled deeply, loving the smell of his cologne. The man was gorgeous, and he was hers for the next twenty-four hours.”
Source: Accidentally Married on Purpose
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.”
Source: Jane and Prudence
“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.”
Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more