W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?”
“What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?”
“What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.”
Source: Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision
“What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?”
“What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?”
“What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?”
“What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?”
“What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?”
“What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?”
“What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.”
“What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?”
“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
“What could be more beautiful than being able to look within ourselves, alongside those we love and are close to? Each of us, through a clear sense of self, needs to imprint and fulfill this closeness between feminine and masculine, and each to transmit in opposite directions what they feel for each other, what they project to fulfill and become reality in their future. Love and be open in a sincere and true direction.”
“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?”
“What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?”
“What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?”
“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over long stretches of time have left us better or worse off? How, in particular, are we to make sense of modernity—of the erosion of family, tribe, tradition, and religion by the forces of individualism, cosmopolitanism, reason, and science?”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.”
“What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful”
“What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?”
“What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?”
“What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.”
“What could be more intimate than dying with someone?”
Source: Day Four
“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.”
“What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.”
Source: The Secret Keeper: A Novel
“What could be more physical than what you eat, where you live, and who you live with? These are all very physical issues.”
“What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.”
“What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?”
Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
“What could be more than being friends? What could be more than what it felt like to wait by the phone to hear that she was okay? More than waiting to discuss every case with her?”
Source: A Distant Heart
“What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.”
“What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage and you talk about how much you despise the children and what you would like to do to them on an airplane? That's the only time I would gladly take a terrorist on. It'd be worth it to get rid of these children.”
“What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the music of our being - which is transformed by some into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is strong and pure enough to drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history.”
Source: The Noise of Time
“What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.”
“What could be said of holding her child for the first time? She felt like the sun has slammed into her. And one instant, she became skinless and new and known. Yesterday and tomorrow broke into separate pieces and shot out apart from one another. What could ever be said of a moment that happened in no language, but every language?”
Source: I'll Come to You
“What could be said of holding her child for the first time? She felt like the sun has slammed into her. In one instant, she became skinless and new and known. Yesterday and tomorrow broke into separate pieces and shot out apart from one another. What could ever be said of a moment that happened in no language, but in every language?”
Source: I'll Come to You
“What could be sillier than having an imaginary boyfriend?”
Source: U-Day
“What could be smarter than going to camping in a deserted forest in a global pandemic time? However, even without such a pandemic, the smartest thing to do would be camping again!”
“What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.”
Source: The Animal Rights Debate
“What could be the meaning of it? It was impossible to imagine; it was impossible not to long to know.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“What could be too embarrassing to tell me?" He arched an eyebrow at me.
I don't know." I smiled. "Periods?"
His smile fell, and he pouted his lips. "Okay. You have a point."
"Boyfriends?"
"No." I giggled at his scrunched-up face, clearly disgusted by the idea of his sister finding a boyfriend. "You're going to have to deal with that when she's older."
"Yeah, when she's thirty."
"Oh, c'mon! Thirty?! I'm not even thirty and you were fine fucking me senseless in the shower."
He blushed and shook his head. "Different.”
Source: SSS: Year Three
“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”
“What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.”
Source: Stories in the Worst Way
“What could be worse than losing part of your life?
Losing the capacity for passion and hope, being left alive but with no emotions other than bitterness and despair.”
Source: Ashley Bell
“What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.”
“What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?”
“What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.”