W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a man wishes, he will believe.”
“What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.”
“What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.”
“What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .”
“What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.”
Source: Cosmos
“What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature”
Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel
“What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.”
Source: Mathematics
“What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'”
“What a meeting this was turning out to be! People were dropping out of sight like the characters in 'And Then There Were None', as they’re killed off one by one.”
Source: Murder a la Christie
“What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!”
Source: The Mystery of Providence
“What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”
Source: The feast of love
“What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom.
[Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]”
“What a miracle it was to see my child breastfeed! How God ensures that a mother can assuage her child’s hunger without depending on anything or anyone! It is a great equalizer, for whether you are a drifter on the streets or a queen, it’s all the same.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.”
Source: Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
“What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.”
Source: Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
“What a miraculous thing a book was, when you stopped to think about it: whole worlds springing to life from nothing more than squiggles on a page.”
Source: The Astral Library
“What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!”
“What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.”
Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations
“What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.”
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
“What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.”
“What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!”
Source: Post-prandial Philosophy
“What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.”
“What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.”
“What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.”
“What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.”
“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”
“What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.”
“What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”
Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle
“What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.”
Source: Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980
“What a MOTHER means to me;
Multitask personality who
Overwork to Offer Opportunities to everyone with
Tender heartedness
Holy Spirit filled, Healthy and Holistic teacher and trainer who
Encourages people to take a risk in for them to be
Reliable and Respected by humanity.”
“What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.”
“What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!”
“What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“What a mysterious thing sleep is. You go to bed worrying about gipsies and secret enemies and detectives planted in your house and the possibilities of kidnapping and a hundred other things, and sleep whisks you away from it all. You travel very far and you don’t know where you’ve been, but when you wake up, it’s a totally new world. No worries, no apprehensions. Instead, when I woke up on the 17th September, I was in a mood of boisterous excitement.”
Source: Endless night
“What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.”
Source: The Black Prince
“What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”
“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”
Source: Public Opinion
“What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.”
“what a nervous readiness attached to its lament”
Source: Falling Awake
“What a new face courage puts on everything!”
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.”
“what a nice day for a friend or a demon you pick”
“What a nice night for an evening.”
“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths covered the stars. Through all the rush of the cloud river the moon swam, breasting the waves and disappearing again in the darkness.
I walked up and down, drinking in the beauty of the quiet earth and the changing sky. The night was absolutely silent. Nothing seemed to be abroad. There was no scurrying of rabbits, or twitter of the half-asleep birds. And though the clouds went sailing across the sky, the wind that drove them never came low enough to rustle the dead leaves in the woodland paths. Across the meadows I could see the church tower standing out black and grey against the sky. ("Man Size In Marble")”
Source: Ghost stories