W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.”
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Source: Les Misérables
“What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!”
“What a grassroots party is about is people getting excited, getting involved in the local political process, saying, we want our candidate to run for office, we want him to run for office, and we're going to get involved and make sure that he or she wins.”
“What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.”
“What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn before he was fifty. That means winning thirty years’ start with no effort.”
Source: Pensées
“What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.”
Source: The Silver Darlings
“What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.”
“What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.”
“What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.”
“What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!”
“What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What a great grace to be alive?”
“What a great hitch to pit!”
“What a great man! A man on assignment. He espouses such greatness. He exudes excellence. His greatness is not about titles or accolades but his ability to make a difference. When he enters a room, there is a change in the atmosphere; hope stirs, and burdens lighten. His presence whispers essence.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt!”
Source: Beast Machine
“What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.”
“What a great pleasure to work for your living?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What a great privilege it is to be here”
“What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.”
“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”
Source: Les Misérables
“What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'”
Source: A sense of measure
“What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!”
“What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.”
“What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.”
“What a great way to see all of our legacies live on, through the video games.”
“What a greater crime. Than loss of time.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century
“What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”
“What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.”
“What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.”
“What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.”
Source: Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”
Source: The Return
“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”
Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.”
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
“What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!”
“What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.”
“What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.”
“What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.”
“What a hope! What an anchor for the soul facing any storm! God reigns supreme, above all. He is in control of everything and nothing happens in this life without His knowledge and eternal purpose. That is dynamite right there.”
Source: This Stormy Life
“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.”
“what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.”
“What a horrible thing yellow is.”
“What a horrible year 2021 has been! Rather than be taken to Santas across the world, children are being taken to centres across the world. Oh, yes, vaccination centres.”
“What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.”
Source: Fire
“What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.”
Source: Novel and story: a book of modern readings