W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What began as a tool for privacy became a playground for crime.”
Source: The Dark Web Diaries
“What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto.”
Source: Running in the Family
“What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.”
Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
“What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.”
Source: The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
“What begins as taste becomes religion”
Source: The Dante Club
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.”
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.”
“What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.”
“What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.”
“What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.”
“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”
Source: Men and Women of the Corporation
“What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
Source: Hortus Vitae: And Limbo
“What being chosen feels like
I’ve given my heart away,
But I’ve never known,
What it feels like to be kept.
I’ve stood on the edges of hearts,
But never at the center.
I don’t know,
What it would be like,
To be the one they run to,
I don’t know how to be someone’s home.
What it would be like,
To be someone’s first thought,
To feel their certainty, the certainty of being wanted,
To know without question that you are the one they choose.
I don’t know how to be someone’s permanent.
I know how to love deeply,
But I don’t know how it feels,
To be the one loved back in the same way.
I know how to give love,
But not how it feels,
To be the one it stays with.
I’ve seen love bloom for others,
But I’ve never felt its roots grow for me.
I’ve been almost, nearly, and close enough,
But never the reason they stay for.
I wonder if love feels different,
When it’s meant for you,
And not just passing through.
I only know the cold of waiting,
Unsure if the warmth of being truly chosen,
Is something I’ll ever know.”
Source: Protecting My Peace At All Cost: The Love I Deserve
“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.”
“What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.”
“What belongs to the light will always find its way.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown by the missionaries that it would be an almost Herculean task to establish better relations between India and America...
If we examine Greek, Chinese, Persian, or Arabian writings on the Hindus, before foreigners invaded India, we find an impartial description of their national character. Megasthenes, the famous Greek ambassador, praises them for their love of truth and justice, for the absence of slavery, and for the chastity of their women. Arrian, in the second century, Hiouen-thsang, the famous Buddhist pilgrim in the seventh century, Marco Polo in the thirteenth century, have written in highest terms of praise of Hindu morality. The literature and philosophy of Ancient India have excited the admiration of all scholars, except Christian missionaries.”
Source: The Monist
“What benefit is there in being a slave to sin?”
“What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.”
“What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.”
“What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.”
“What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?”
“What better book can there be than the book of humanity.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?”
Source: The Bedquilt and Other Stories
“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.”
“What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?”
Source: Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition
“What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?”
Source: Sonnets and Other Verses
“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
“What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?”
Source: Effective Prayer
“What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?”
“What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top.”
“What better mirror is there than the face of an old friend? Only those we love have the power to show us our true selves.”
Source: The Reflection Crack'd
“What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?”
“What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.”
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
“What better place to kill time than a library?”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.”
“What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.”
“What better reminder do we have than our kids of our own best selves, our less stressed and more carefree selves? In their silliness we see the echo of the way we used to be: when we were kids, yes, but also before we had kids, or even two weeks ago, before all of the stress of these year-end corporate meetings. Their joy, their infectious enthusiasm, their sense of "mission" as the poor dog is dressed in boxer shorts, cannot help but cajole you, and beckon you, to lighten up.”
Source: Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
“What better reward than to see others excited by your work?”
“What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?”
Source: Childhood
“What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.”
Source: Deep Blue
“What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.”
Source: Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity
“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”
Source: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man