W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What am I? It's one summer. You can't change into a different person over a summer.”
Source: Cool for the Summer
“What am I?” Joan whispered.
“I don’t know,” Aaron said. “All I know is that if you undo the massacre, you can’t ever meet me. You can’t ever trust me. I won’t know. I won’t remember what-” He cut himself off. Then he ground out. “I won’t remember what you mean to me.”
Source: Only a Monster
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“What am I missing?
What is it that I am still not seeing?
I close my eyes and try to figure out the answer.
I must not have seen something!
Maybe there were signs that I didn't realize... like clues or codes I should have picked up...”
Source: The Ring Does Not Fit
“What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.”
“What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.”
“What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow
“What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.”
“What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?”
“What am I searching for? Maybe its the beliefs I had as a child, that the world is a nice place, that people are genuinely who they say they are, that life is not simply what it is, where the sun shines and the stars glitter for me. Where am I going? I do not know but maybe I am just searching for those beliefs that lead to a happy ending...”
“What am I?" she asked ...
"You are mine," he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.”
Source: Prowled Darkness
“What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.”
“What am I supposed to call you?"
"Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.”
Source: The One
“What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?”
“What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!”
“What am I supposed to do? Just tell him flat-out, ‘hey, if you think it won’t wreck our flow at work, I’d really like to have sex with you?’”
“Why not?” Natalie asked.”
Source: Between Me & You
“What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear.”
Source: Sisters of the Lost Nation
“What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?
And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?”
“What am I supposed to do while you’re gone? (Shahara) Think up ways to kill me while I sleep. (Syn)”
“What am I supposed to do with a girl with so many lies in her mouth?”
Source: Stolen Hearts
“What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.”
“What am I supposed to do with them?"
"Hell if I know. I just thought of you. Regift them. White rabbit shit."
"Elephant," murmured Gansey.
"Don't bring politics into this, Dick," Kavinsky replied.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!”
“What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.”
“What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!”
“What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?”
Source: Domnei
“What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.”
“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”
“What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.”
Source: The Essays
“What am I to do?
What is my destiny?
I have no idea, not a clue
Feeling lost and empty.
What is my dream?
What is my future?
I beg thee to listen to me,
I beg thee to answer.”
Source: Hidden Light
“What am I to do with you?" she whispered. "I love you, you know. I love you, but I hate what you're doing to yourself." She drew a shaky breath. "And to me. I hate what you're doing to me.”
Source: The Duke And I
“What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?”
“What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often?”
Source: Selected Poems of Robert Creeley
“what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form”
Source: Milk and honey
“What am I to you?’
Sophiel smiled.
‘The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after me with its fiery rays. I only have to turn towards it for it to set fire to my heart.”
Source: Breath of Darkness
“What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.”
“What am I?
Who am I?
Am I one, or many?
Nobody knows.”
Source: The feast of our life: Preparing to flourish through self-love
“What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?”
“What am I, your wife?' Boyd asked him, highly amused.
Sin seemed to consider that for a moment. 'You would need to exchange bodies with my new boss for that. You can be my slave instead.'
Boyd could not help a startled laugh at that. 'I don't know if I like the idea of being your slave,' he informed him with one eyebrow arched in challenge. 'The very nature of that relationship would imply I get no compensation and I just can't agree to that.'
'You get to be in my presence. That should be sufficient compensation.”
Source: Evenfall
“What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?”
Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems
“What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected.”
“What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead.”
Source: Living with the Dead
“What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.”
“What amazed Cardinal Sandomme not a little was that all the bishops present were behaving as if there were something new and unexpected in the situation, as if some new calamity had suddenly hit mankind’s spiritual fiber. Yet this was nothing but the latest step on the road of spiritual degradation mankind had taken long ago . . .”
Source: The Gasp
“What amazes me, after all these years of selling my body, is that it’s always a man. Always… Always a man who is appalled by us enough to cause a scene. Even the men who chose to buy us.”
Source: Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work
“What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.”
“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.”
“What amazes me is the way children grow up together, yet some become decent people, and others fall by the wayside. But what chance does a boy have to improve himself, when he cannot get a proper meal to eat, or books to go to school? He cannot excel in a class when the more fortunate children have all the opportunities. He has no guide, no encouragement, no vision. How can one live, despised by the community, made to feel that he is not a part of that community? The more fortunate seem to feel so good because others are destitute. The poor are to be mocked and trodden upon.”
Source: I, Vagabond
“What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.”
“What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.”