W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What destruction have I been blessed by?”
“What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Happiness
“What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.”
Source: Flourish
“What determines my journey is being honest about where I am, being brave enough to define where I want to go, and then making the commitment to live in neither.”
“What determines our lives as NDNs and/or queers are pain and trauma, love and hope. Death looms at all scales, individual to planetary.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
“What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.”
“What determines the degree of indestructibility of your destiny is the degree of your belief in your own destiny!”
“What determines the success of a story is not its ability to mirror real life or its escapist value; it’s its power to illuminate specific aspects of the human experience in an engaging way. Ultimately, the main goal of storytelling is to create shared emotional experiences.”
Source: The Natural Laws of Story: Master the Art and Science of Engaging Narratives
“What determines whether the usage is acceptable or inappropriate? If you want to make a great first impression with positive impact, it is essential that you know there is a difference.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.”
Source: On Air
“What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of”
“What dialogue are you entertaining?”
“What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will.”
Source: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
“What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?”
“What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?”
“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”
Source: Afterworlds
“What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.”
Source: Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“What did Albert Camus say? It's not one thing or the other that leads to madness; it's the space in between them.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.”
“What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.”
“What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.”
“What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!”
“What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.”
“What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.”
Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series
“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them.”
Source: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
“What did he call them? Lupus garous? Fancy name for a horror-flick creature.”
Source: SEAL Wolf In Too Deep
“What did he do to you?”
“This,” I said, holding up my hand. There was a shattering noise as Renee dropped her plate.
“It’s on her right hand,” Darah pointed out.
“Oh,” Renee said, leaning down to get the plate. “So I broke a plate for nothing.”
Source: My Favorite Mistake
“What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?”
“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
“What did he offer you?' I ask, like we're all in on the same joke. Yes, it's a gamble. Maybe Cardan didn't offer them anything at all.
I try not to seem like I'm holding my breathe. I try not to show how small Cardan makes me feel.
The Ghost gives me one of his rare smiles. 'Mostly gold, but also power. Position.'
'A lot of things he hasn't got,' said the Bomb.
'I thought we were friends,' Cardan says halfheartedly.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“What did he say? He is in love? My brain stops, my heart stops, my blood ceases to flow. My appendages go weak and cold, and there is a suspension of all space and time as the universe comes into perfect alignment.”
Source: Sweet Delicious Madness and the Many Mysterious Deaths of Silvio Berlusconi
“What did he say?" Hazel asked. "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied.”
“What did he think he was seeing? I began a new search and focused on the stranger things he'd painted.
Fangs
Supernatural fangs
Pointy ears
Wings
The results gave a rather expansive list, which I should have guessed. I'd filled my head with enough fantasy books to last a lifetime when the most interesting thing to do in my hometown was to go to the library. But the last article I clicked on checked all the fantastical boxes and could describe what Dubois thought he was seeing. Closing my laptop, I let out a halfhearted laugh.
"Yeah, right. Faeries.”
Source: Dirty Lying Faeries
“What did he think love was—pain? Was that all anyone believed love to be? That if it didn’t hurt, if no one pined, then it was as if it did not exist and had never existed—a tree brought down in the forest with no one to hear it fall?”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.”
“What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.”
Source: The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
“What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?”
Source: Precious Bane
“What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.”
“What did I do that I didn't have to do? That was always the question. Figure out what we choose when we're free to choose anytime and you'll know who we really are. I saved Brooke, when I could have run. I chose to be hurt, when I could have chosen to never to hurt again. I was a killer. Cold-blooded and ruthless but I was a hero too. Or at least I was trying to be.”
Source: The Devil's Only Friend
“What did I do to deserve this?”
“What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.”
“What did I do, Win? You just left. You were supposed to come to my house. If it was too much, too soon, you should have told me. I’d never pressure you to do anything you didn’t want to do. That’s it, right? That has to be it.”
“What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.”
“What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!”
“What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.”
Source: Mrs. Poe
“What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had been
a more familiar face
than that of man —
I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!”
Source: The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
“What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.”