W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.”
“What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'”
Source: Five great encyclicals: Labor - education - marriage -reconstructing the social order - atheistic communism
“What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said.
—Fertile Imagination”
Source: Theories of Everything
“What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.”
“What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.”
“What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.”
Source: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
“What could he have against love? Sure, it sucked sometimes, but what was the point of living if there wasn't love?”
Source: Unhinged
“What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“What could he say in a single word, in a few words, that would sear all their faces and wake them up?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“What could he say?
That, back then, I wasn't caught by the Wen Sect because I wanted to go back to Lotus Pier to retrieve my parents' corpses. That, at the town we passed on our way, when you were buying food, a group of Wen Sect cultivators caught up. That, I discovered them early and left where I sat, hiding at the corner of the street and didn't get caught, but they were patrolling the streets and would soon run into you outside.
That this was why I ran out and distracted them.
But just like how the past Wei Wuxian couldn't tell him the truth of giving him his golden core, the current Jiang Cheng wasn't able to say anything either.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
“What could I do? Others were already repulsive to me, and now I was repulsive even to myself.”
“What could I do to feel happier living here? …
1. Walk more.
2. Buy local.
3. Get to know my neighbors.
4. Do fun stuff.
5. Explore nature.
6. Volunteer.
7. Eat local.
8. Become more political.
9. Create something new.
10. Stay loyal through hard times.”
Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“what could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.”
“What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.”
Source: American Hunger
“What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!”
Source: River of Dreams
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
Source: Slowness
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Source: Siddhartha
“What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?”
“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”
“What could it be? What kind of power could have brought out such a smile from Eunhyung’s heart that had become the wreckage? Sprouts keep shooting from the ground, even if you step on them again and again. I wonder if that sort of power is the source of our strength. Just like that... if you pushed through that moment’s crisis like that... would you be here with us right now Eunhyung?”
“What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!”
“What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.”
“What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.”
Source: AFRICAN GENISIS
“What could one child do for the realm of the sea?”
Source: Ben Archer and the World Beyond
“What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
“What could possibly be the harm of an iron orthodoxy like that?”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“what could possibly go right?”
Source: AM I A COACH: SHORT STORIES OF INTENTIONAL ACTIONS
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Source: The Misconception
“What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.”
“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.”
Source: Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
“What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Eve, for sorrows past, for sorrows yet to come. I put my pencil away. It was wrong to draw live pain. If there had been an artist at Bethany, it would have been wrong to intrude his chalk or charcoal on Mary Magdalene’s weeping as she washed Jesus’ feet. Some things were too raw for art until time dulled their sharpness.”
Source: The Passion of Artemisia
“What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?”
Source: E
“What could someone say to the dead to earn their forgiveness?”
Source: The War Beneath
“What could stand opposite that which has no boundary?”
Source: Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension
“What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.”
Source: Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...
“What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?”
Source: The Secret of Fatima
“What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?”
“What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.”
Source: Shift
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
“What could we want more than being genuine and authentic? We all need a distinctive, substantial identity guiding us along the scary slopes of our life adventure and protecting us from unsuspected pitfalls. Still, our identity remains under construction and can often let us down, tossing us about in our daily journey and recurrently altering its policy. ("Steps into the unknown")”
“What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.”
“What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.”
“What could you do if you valued yourself more?
Whatever you think your worth in life and business, double it. Then double it again.”
“What could you do in your past life
to come back as a weevil in beans?
Just curious.”
“What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and inteligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?”
Source: Catch-22