W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“What a terrible thing life can be.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.”
“What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.”
“What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!”
Source: War and Peace
“What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.”
“What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.”
“What a terrifyingly beautiful thought that you are the beginning of forever.
I love you, and life for me has just begun.”
“What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”
“What a thing friendship is - World without end.”
Source: Dramatic Romances
“What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.”
“What a thing is this
River we run
What a thing is this
Music we fill
What a thing is this
Love we fun
What a thing is this
Quiet we still
What a thing is this
Universe we spin
What a thing is this
That is us”
“What a thing it is to be young, and be able to read such fine print without glasses.”
Source: Human Acts
“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
“What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.”
“What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.”
Source: Life of Pi
“What a thorough investigator you are, Armand,' said Jerome. 'You go all the way back to the womb.'
'Well, no one suspects a fetus,' said Gamache. 'That's their great advantage.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.”
“What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.”
“What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.”
Source: The Hours
“What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.”
“What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“What a thrilling world this could be if only we would never again have to indulge the brutal sin of war-making . . . Instead of wasting our energies in hostility and our wealth on weaponry, we could send art to the moon, exalt our Pasternaks instead of isolating them. We could feed and house and clothe everyone forever; lick cancer in a week; harness the sun's energy; learn a few languages; talk, travel, grow, and love.
[ -- Leonard Bernstein's closing remarks following his 1959 Moscow concert program telecast nationwide in the United States]”
Source: Leonard Bernstein: American Original
“What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.”
“What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.”
“What a tiny part of the boundless abyss of time has been allotted to each of us – and this is soon vanished in eternity; what a tiny part of the universal substance and the universal soul; how tiny in the whole earth the mere clod on which you creep.”
Source: Meditations
“What a tiny part of the boundless abyss of time has been allotted to each of us – and this is soon vanished in eternity; what a tiny part of the universal substance and the universal soul; how tiny in the whole earth the mere clod on which you creep.
Reflecting on all this, this nothing important other than active pursuit where your own nature leads and passive acceptance of what universal nature brings.”
Source: Meditations
“What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!”
“WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.”
Source: Extravagant worship
“What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”
Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.”
“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”
“What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!”
“What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things.”
Source: Shark Heart
“What a tragedy it is when one trusts the jealousy of his friends. What a tragedy it is when one trusts the values of a society built to trap souls within its system. What a tragedy it is, when one is afraid to oppose the protective love of his own family, rooted in the fears of the ancestors. What a tragedy it is when one is afraid to contradict his own thoughts, rooted in his own traumatic experiences. What a tragedy it is, when men and women of religion, are afraid to think. What a tragedy it is, when men and women of science, are afraid to feel. What a tragedy it is when we call that life and glorify spiritual death as if it was a trophy. For the one who lives must battle such things inside his own nature, and will never be able to share victories with those who are too frightened to awaken.”
“What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.”
Source: Lost Ecstasy
“What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini”
Source: Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
“What a tragedy to see a boy dumb himself to death for a girl.”
Source: Ice Town
“What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.”
Source: The Divine Invasion
“What a tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don’t know it; they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break each chain.”
Source: The Divine Invasion
“What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.”
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'”
“What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.”
“What a tremendous act of generosity on the part of the donors who made this possible and what a tremendous opportunity for all these children in Kalamazoo public schools who can now go to college and chase their dreams.”
“What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!”
Source: Elevul Dima dintr-a VII-A
“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.”
Source: City of Miracles
“What a trio we are: wolf, dragon and . . .” Ronan bit back the word. Shifter. He sat straighter in the saddle, raising one hand in farewell as his mount broke through the last of the boundary mists. “May the gods favor us this time, my friend. Pray Mairi Sinclair is the one.”
Source: My Tempting Highlander