W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell.”
Source: I, Robot
“What broke me was wildness,
and wildness my salvation.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.”
“What broke your heart so bad
That you had to close every door,
That you say you have a dark soul
And can't utter the word 'love' anymore?”
“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”
“What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the same rain.”
Source: Ghost Music
“What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collison) and Luke are, and I don't know what those other guys (on other teams) bring to the table. This is where I've made home and I didn't want anything different and I didn't need anything different.”
“What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.”
“What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.”
“What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.”
“What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.”
“What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.”
“What brought us together? I sometimes wonder. Was it chance? Fate? Luck?
I often marvel at the randomness of it all, the tangled threads that wove us into something stronger than our individual selves.
That a time so dark could provide such light is a miracle, I think.”
Source: The One and Only Family
“What bug crawled up your ass?" I demanded.
"If you mean, why I am upset? I should think that would be obvious!"
It took me a second, but I got it. "Oh, come on. You're not still pissed about–you did the same damn thing to me!"
He had the utter gall to look offended. "I did nothing of the sort–"
I stared at him. "And just how do you figure that? You stripped me butt naked, diddled me over a desk and stole my duffel bag. And my clothes!"
Somebody made a choking sound. I glanced up to find the door to the study open, and the old vamp looking scandalized. "Diddled?" Anthony asked, apparently delighted. Mircea closed his eyes.”
Source: Death's Mistress
“What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.”
“What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.”
“What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.”
“What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.”
“What burdens we lay on the dying, Laurel thought, as she listened now to the accelerated rain on the roof: seeking to prove some little thing that we can keep to comfort us when they can no longer feel--something as incapable of being kept as of being proved: the lastingness of memory, vigilance against harm, self-reliance, good hope, trust in one another.”
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“What burns the bigots most is an unbending flame of inclusion.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?”
Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“What business does memory have with time?”
“What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.”
“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
Source: Agnes Grey
“What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?”
“What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace.”
Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.”
Source: The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business
“What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?”
“What businesses need from a bank is significantly different from what individuals need from a bank.”
“What businesses really need is to build connections that last, connections that transcend a single product or marketing campaign, connections that span an extended period.”
Source: Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic, and Prosper in Social Media
“What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.”
Source: A Further Range
“What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?”
Source: Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”
“What Cable is up to is not something that can be done quietly. It will raise the interest of some pretty important people and leaders in the X-Men community will have to step in at some point in the storyline.”
“What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti
“What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.”
“What,” came a deep male voice, “is this?”
Silence froze, her hand still outstretched, clutching a damp, dirty cloth. Oh, dear Lord. Slowly she raised her eyes and found herself face-to-thighs with Mickey O’Connor’s extremely tight breeches.”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“What came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.”
“What came first I would say was the producing. I was a huge fan of Pharrell Williams and around that era, when I was in high school, the producers started getting recognition for all the dope beats: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, and all these dope producers.I also started rapping. I wanted to be Eminem, and that's why I still have those qualities in my music, and that's why I'm able to be so versatile - sing, rap whatever. But really my number one thing is singing.”
“What came first the chicken or the dickhead?”
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”
“What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.”
“What came is gone forever every time”
Source: The Essential Ginsberg
“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household--that feeling of being perched and listening, the way an animal must feel at night in the dark, assessing danger.”
Source: Wild Roses
“What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.”
“What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.”
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth.
There was no cure for what one had seen or done.”