W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?”
“What about parents who traumatize their children and then tell them to get over it...”
“What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.”
“What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.”
“What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.”
“What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.”
Source: Nightmares and Dreamscapes
“What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?”
“What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?”
“What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?”
“What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.”
“What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke
“What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn’t believe in the beautiful itself and isn’t able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don’t you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn’t this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?”
Source: The Republic
“What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now.
He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.”
Source: The Society of S
“What about striding across the throne room? Seeing the looks on all those faces when you put that crown on your head?...Did you enjoy that?'
...
'I didn't mind it.'
...
'Come on, don't be modest, Gray.'
'Fine. Powerful. It made me feel powerful.'
'Good. Focus on that feeling. Not what it took to get it.”
“What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library?
"What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me”
Source: Drowning Instinct
“What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.”
“What about the claim, by the PACE trial, that Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT can treat ME? This is a trial where you could enter moderately ill, get worse in the trial, and be declared ‘recovered’ at the end. Even the recent follow-up study conceded that, long-term, Graded Exercise and CBT are no better for ME than doing nothing. Investigative journalists and academics alike have dismissed the PACE trial as ‘clinical trial amateurism’.
Like MS or epilepsy, which were also once wrongly believed to be psychiatric disorders, ME is a neurological disease, and the World Health Organisation lists it as such. I am too weak to walk more than a few metres, needing to lie in bed 21 hours a day. With the little energy I have, I am an ME patient activist.”
“What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.
“I rang and spoke to four very polite computers who gave me all these options and then cut out on me. Then I tried the post office, because they were advertising, and I spoke to another computer. Very rude, that one. Don’t think it recognized ‘Are you shitting me?’ as an option.”
“You know why that is?”
“Why is that, Dominic?” Tom had asked drolly, because he knew he was going to be told why.
“Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers. That’s what this government’s done to us.”
Source: The Piper's Son
“What about the dead?" Wujun asked, pausing to look back.
Kentai raised his arm, blocking the street behind them from view. His hand was heavy on Wujun's shoulder and for a second, he thought the swordsman was shaking. "Don't look back," he replied in a grave, stricken tone. "Never look back.”
Source: Embers of the Past
“What about the details? You were going to teach me about the details,'
'This is about the big picture, you ought to know that.' His arm slides across the table and just for a moment, the tips of our fingers touch.”
Source: Please Love Me
“What about the election?"
"What about it? I did my part, now I just have to trust the universe to do the rest." He wiped her tears.
"What if you lose?" she asked.
He tucked her hair behind her ear. "I've already won. Because I have you.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“What about the entrance to the cave?" she asked. He snapped his fingers as if he'd forgotten all about it.
"Excellent point."
Myrnin dragged the largest, heaviest table over, top down, and covered up with it the hole he'd made in the floor. Then he took handfuls of broken glass and mounded it up on all sides.
Myrnin artistically sprinkled some more broken glass. "There," Myrnin said, and backed off to the stairs again. "What do you think?"
"Fabulous." She sighed. "Brilliant job of camouflage."
"Normally, I'd add a corpse," he said, "just to keep people at bay. But that might be good enough.”
Source: Carpe Corpus
“What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.”
Source: The Queen of the South
“What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan.”
“What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?”
“What about the lives
I might have lived?
As who? And who
will be accountable
for this regret I see
no way to avoid?”
“What about the motorcycle parts?"
"Those belong to my sort-of boyfriend. He's in Italy right now, visiting his family, and I like to have the mess around to remind me of him."
"Oh. So that's why Dante in Italian."
She blushed and looked away. "No. That's why the Italian boyfriend.”
Source: Greywalker
“What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin?"
"Try to."
Love to...”
Source: Dark Desires After Dusk
“What about the pain? How did you got rid of it?
Darling, in this world, there's no salvation from pain.”
Source: Hankering for Tranquility
“What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?”
“What about the queen?" Sir Tristan asked, challenge in his voice as he used her as a reason not to follow Arthur's plan.
"The queen," Guinevere said, pulling up her hood, "is ready to ride at the king's side, wherever that takes her.”
Source: The Guinevere Deception
“What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.”
“What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.”
“What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.”
Source: Paper Towns
“What About the Social Introvert?
Perhaps you don’t want to talk! Maybe you prefer to speak only when responding to another person. If you tend to be more reserved and less gregarious, the expression on your face will speak volumes. A pleasant expression and a genuine smile communicate friendliness and approachability that will lead you to a positive experience. Your body language engages—without words.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“What about the support group? What if I decide I’m not ready to leave?”
“It won’t take me long to find somewhere else to go.”
“You’d be willing to do that?”
“To have you beneath me? To hear you scream my name? To go down on you, lick you from bottom to top and finally see if you taste as good as you smell?” He smiled when her lips parted in shock and her eyes
went wide. “I’d give up group altogether, sweetheart.”
Source: No Strings
“What about the Symmetry?!”
Source: Soul Eater, Vol. 2
“What about these fried things . . . ? Ohhh, god, these have a simple taste, but I just can't stop!”
Source: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1
“What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?”
“What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.”
Source: Shadow of the Giant
“What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?”
“What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.”
Source: Heaven: Number 3 in series
“What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?”
“What about those of us who just don’t fit in, who feel as if we were born on the Wrong Planet, or in the wrong time period? Where did we come from? Is this a whole counter-culture that’s new to the planet, moving us forward? Have we finally reached the Age of Aquarius? Is it now! Is the moon in the seventh house? Has Jupiter finally aligned with Mars? And are we right now getting ready to see mystic crystal revelation where love will steer the stars?
Afraid not. There have always been people who see the world differently from everyone else. And there always will be. If you’re one of the ‘chosen ones’ then you come from a long line of Gypsies, tramps and thieves, of rebels and revolutionaries, of pagans, infidels and sceptics. This is your heritage, and you have much to be proud of”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words— Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.”
“What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.”
“What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.”
“What about what Doc said?" asked Big Moe. "If we turn up the temperature it might hurt some of the fishes."
"Collateral damage," said Sarin. "Nothing more. I tell you what, Big Moe, we'll turn it up slowly and the fish won't even notice.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times