W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a house - nothin' but rooms!”
“What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.”
“What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.”
Source: The Passionate Friends
“What a humbling thought, that Jesus has more for me.”
“What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“What a job to have to do , Rick thought. I'm a scourge, like famine or plague. Where I go the ancient curse follows. As Mercer said, I am required to do wrong. Everything I've done has been wrong from the start. Anyhow, now it's time to go home. Maybe after I've been there awhile with Iran, I'll forget.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“What a job. Waiting to kill or be killed on almost a daily basis. No way you didn’t take that home with you for long-term problems. You just couldn't kill time and time again, especially when you could see their faces and their death rattle and not be affected and screwed up a little, the rest of your life.”
Source: Navy Corpsmen In Vietnam: The Story of Doc John Peck
“What a joke, coming from a woman who worked for the fashion industry. Really. Starving yourself to fit into a size zero — why did that size even exist? Zero referred to the absence of something, but what did it mean in terms of a model's measurements? Her fat? Or her presence? How much could you cut away before the person herself vanished? It was hypocritical, that's what it was. I said as much, adding, “If you're so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the way I am. That's what's healthy, Mom. Not being focused on all this freaky weight-loss stuff.”
Source: Cloak and Dagger
“What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.”
Source: Legend
“What a jolly thing military surveillance is!”
Source: Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison
“What a journey! Now I am here there is so much to enjoy! I wish I knew this years ago!”
“What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.”
“What a joy it is to arrive after dark at a snug-looking house, its windows filled with welcoming light, and know that it is yours and that inside is your family.”
Source: Notes from a Small Island
“What a joy it is to dance and sing!”
“What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.”
“What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.”
“What a joy it is to see, trees dancing in the rain!”
“What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe." -Luther Burbank.”
Source: The Apple Orchard
“What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.”
“What a joy to know Jesus.”
“What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all
eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“What a joy to meet and be around with people who're self-aware with healthy self-esteem. They embrace you and make your stay with them enjoyable.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?”
“What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart”
“What a joyful adventure!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What a joyful journey, to travel with the Lord.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
“What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
“What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935
“What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“What a lark! What a plunge!”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.”
Source: The Shadow Saga Omnibus
“What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.”
“What a leap of faith. To love in spite of loss, to begin again when you’ve already failed, to reach for joy knowing that it brings pain, too, that life is inseparable from damage. - 99%”
Source: April May June July: A Novel
“What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.”
“What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.”
“What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.”
“What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.”
“What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more.”
“what a life without a smile, so show some life smile”
“What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”
Source: Rimbaud
“What a life, without wine!”
“What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.”
Source: The Sea