W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.”
“What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!”
Source: Traits of American Life
“What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!”
“What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.”
“What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.”
Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action
“What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
Source: Neverwhere
“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”
Source: Girl in Translation
“What a relaxing taste.
It's like this meal is warming me, both body and heart.
Cuttlefish and mackerel- the bounty of the seas- melded together into salty beauty.”
Source: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 2
“What a relief it is when we have the power to detach ourselves from ourselves, laugh at our pathetic weaknesses, and get the knack of sweeping away the certainties that are not essential in our lives. ( "Steaming ahead")”
“What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.”
“What a relief, Nadya thought; in that light he would not be able to tell that she had been crying.
"You mean if it weren't for the blackout you wouldn't have come?" Dasha took up Shchagov's tone, flirting unconsciously, as she did with every unmarried man she met.
"By no means, never. In bright light women's faces are deprived of all their charm; it reveals their spiteful expressions, their envious glances, their premature wrinkles, their heavy cosmetics."
Nadya shuddered at the words "envious glances"—it was as if he had overheard their argument.
Shchagov went on:" If I were a woman, I would make it a law that lights be kept low. Then everyone would soon have a husband."
Dasha looked disapprovingly at Shchagov. He always talked that way, and she didn't like it. All his phrases seemed memorized, insincere.”
Source: The First Circle
“What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.”
“What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”
Source: Negotiations 1972-1990
“What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.”
“What A Remarkable Woman You Are
You are a child of God
You are gifted
You are triumphant
You are exceptional
You are inspirational
You are irreplaceable
You are loveable
You are valuable
You are beautiful
You are helpful
You are hopeful
You are wonderful
You are powerful
You are prayerful
You are purposeful
You are successful
My blessed Mother!
What a remarkable woman you are”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“What a rest in repentance!”
“What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.”
“What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.”
Source: Small Wonder
“What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.”
“What a riot of experience”
“What a riot of experiences through life. It is going to swallow a lot of words to get this right!”
“What a rope of sand we are without a leader.”
Source: The Master of Stair
“What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.”
“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”
“What a sad business is being funny!”
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
“What a sad generation. In the olden days. We used to learn from our mistakes. These days you get canceled for your mistakes.”
“What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.”
Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”
Source: The Reader
“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.”
“What a sad thing, to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. God, how I hate the sound of it. Good girl, thinks Rachel, is mountains and mountains worse than good boy. All a good boy has to do to be good is put on a clean shirt. Nobody wants to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. There can't be a single girl in here who wants to be just fine.”
Source: Headshot
“What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.”
“What a scarily talented young lady! Now that she said it, I can't think of any greater twist for this dish! It's as if she were divinely inspired, giving us a revelation beyond mortal ken!
"The answer I sought for my dish could only be found...
... by going above and beyond that which is commonly considered "correct." And had I not seen Tadokoro's dorayaki dish, which boldly challenged such notions... it never would've occurred to me to make my soufflé."
"She named her dish Soufflé Léger de Grâce, right? Soufflé Léger just means, like, a light soufflé.
Grâce is the French word for "grace"- not necessarily in the elegant sense, though, as it also means, "blessings."
And the Japanese word for that is Megumi.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 29 [Shokugeki no Souma 29]
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
“What a school. You were always watching somebody cut their damn toenails or squeeze their pimples or something.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.”
“What a scummy barnacle. What are they going to have to do to get rid of him that wouldn't result in jail time?”
Source: Werewolf Part Two: Lu and Jane
“What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger,: Advertisement to the second edition. Introduction; Essay on the writings of Massinger, by John Ferriar, &c. The virgin-martyr. The unnatural combat. The Duke of Milan
“What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.”
“What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.”
Source: Clear light of day
“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.”
Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist
“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
“What a shame it truly is— that some of us have lived our entire lives under the impression that the love we have been searching for was to be found, first and foremost, in anyone but ourselves.”
Source: The Strength In Our Scars
“What a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived his life following his religion, were to find out that there is no Heaven and no Hell and that all souls just go out and back to the places where they came from, finally free from the monsters that hung onto their backs while they were in this world! And what a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived life with no thought of her own soul, were to find out that some souls go to some place wonderful and some souls go to some place horrible! But what a shame it would be, for anyone, to live a life here on this Earth full of fear, void of freedom and happiness, meaningless and empty, due to either the probability of Heaven and Hell or the absence thereof! So what is really true, is that you and I have bones in our bodies and have flesh under our skin and we ought to live this life right here in such a way that creates Heaven on Earth and puts Hell far away.”
“What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.”
Source: Dark Angels
“What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”
Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name