W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a nightmare!" cried Imtaz. "There's nothing gloomier than nature. You'll lose your sense of humor in the country. Unable to criticize the trees, your intelligence will lose its edge as you contemplate the plowed fields, and then, it'll be very easy for you to sing the praises of your fellow men because you won't be here to see and listen to them. Don't make that mistake. Never cut yourself off from mankind because, with distance, you're more likely to grant men extenuating circumstances. I love you too much to let you succumb to that weakness.”
Source: A Splendid Conspiracy
“What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!”
Source: Rural Hours
“What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll...wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, hour can you dismiss purple? Call [him] back and tell him off my need of purple!”
Source: River Secrets
“What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll...wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Call [him] back and tell him of my need of purple!”
Source: River Secrets
“What a noob thing to say. The first thing you learn if you use drugs on a regular basis is how to wear a convincing mask of normalcy—even if your brain is bathing in a sea of chemical trippiness. It’s called “hiding your power level”—a wonderful phrase coined by the writers of Dragon Ball Z.”
Source: Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
“What a nuisance is the friend who must have this and that, whose likes and hates are infinite, with bitter and loud voiced complaint about the whole of circumstance? How pleasant are the truly great who, wanting nothing, are content with anything. Accepting all things in a world of illusion as born of cause-effect they live in a mind above the opposites, and we call them great because they do so.”
Source: The Buddhist way of life
“What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“What a pair we are, intrinsically broken but tied to one another by desire and death.”
Source: So Close
“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!”
“What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.”
“What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.”
“What a patsy I must be to let you mock me like this! I didn't know that women were so eager to make fools of us men."
"Uh, I hate to break it to ya, but most of you are actually DIY types.”
Source: Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”
Source: The Philosophical Works
“What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.”
Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
“What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.”
“What a person desires and what they deserve are often not identical.”
“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.”
“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.
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Source: Carve the Mark
“What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.”
Source: Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay
“What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.”
“What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will all end up in precisely the same misery.”
Source: No Other Gods
“What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”
“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.”
“What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.”
“What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.”
“What a person thinks about determines what he is.”
Source: God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit
“WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.”
“What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.”
“What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.”
“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”
Source: Candide: or, Optimism
“What a phoney sense of belonging all this is, this which is offered by the public pals of this publicly gregarious age; it would be better to feel anonymous; one might then be moved to some useful action to improve matters.”
“What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.”
Source: Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture
“What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!”
“What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.”
“What a piece of work is a man”
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
“What a piece of work is man!”
Source: Hamlet
“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“What a pity he let the substance go for the shadow.”
Source: Easter at the Lakes
“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”
“What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.”
Source: Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]
“What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“What a pity? Mankind often neglect the knowledge that will save their soul.”
“What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.”
“What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!”