W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”
“What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.”
“What a long strange trip it's been.”
Source: In the Spirit: Conversations with the Spirit of Jerry Garcia
“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.”
Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
“What a LOSER!”
“What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.”
“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.”
“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.”
“What a lot of failed and mediocre actors do not realize, probably because it is ironic, is that the key to being a great actor, like any great artist, begins with their ability to be themselves, to feel comfortable exposing all of themselves in their art.”
“What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-class, who is middle-income to really get ahead in 21st century America. That implicates our education system. It also implicates our local and regional economies. And I think that folks will expect Trump to fix a lot of those things. But, of course, it's a really tall order, and it's not going to happen overnight.”
“What a lot of fun you could have, Minty discovered, if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!”
Source: Winter Cottage
“What a lot of humans fail to see is that they don't need to do anything to be valuable--they already are.”
Source: The Forbidden Land of Andara
“What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.”
“What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!”
“What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.”
“What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.”
“What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.”
“What a lot of things I don't need.”
“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”
“What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.”
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Source: Getting Better All the Time
“What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.”
“What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.”
Source: Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella
“What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.”
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”
“What a lovely thing a rose is!"
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
Source: The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“What a lovely thing a rose is!”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories
“What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.”
Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower
“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
Source: Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.”
“What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?”
“What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.”
“What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century”
“What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.”
“what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted”
“What a luxury to turn your back on luxury.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“What a mad world is a world in which nоbody deserves to be loved.”
“What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.”
Source: What Would Jane Austen Do?
“What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!”
“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.”
Source: The Selected Letters of William James
“What a magnificent reality it is that rain falls equally upon the showy flowers as well as the attached thorns and wild bushes, as if it were a message from Nature that nurtures all manifestations of life with equal love. This harmony, which is embedded in every corner of Nature, creates a special wave of peace in the heart. Perhaps love is just like this; a sentiment beyond color, race, and regional distinctions that scatters its colors in every heart and makes it feel diverse states.”
Source: The First Snowfall Of Winter: Love’s Eternal Light Amidst the Ruins of Despair
“What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”
“What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.”
“What a man can do and what a man can't do”
“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”
Source: The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”
Source: The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum
“What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.”
Source: Scaramouche
“What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.”
Source: Rites of Passage: With an introduction by Robert McCrum