W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What do you call it when you end up right where you’re supposed to be?”
Foster simply replies, “The perfect chemistry.”
Source: More Than Us
“What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.”
Source: On Bear Mountain
“What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful”
Source: Of matters great and small
“What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?”
“What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“What do you call those who won't sing?
Savages.”
Source: Requiem for Potatoes: An Audio Musical Story
“What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!
"I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, "Nothing, just now."
"Think again," it said: "that won't do."
Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what you call yourself?" she said timidly, "I think that might help a little."
"I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here."
So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight. "And dear me, you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“What do you care about?”
“What do you care?" I barked, and his grip tightened enough on my wrists that I knew my bones would snap with a little more pressure.
"What do I care?" he breathed, wrath twisting his features. Wings - those membranous, glorious wings - flared from his back, crafted from the shadows behind him. "What do I care?"
But before he could go on, his head snapped to the door, then back to my face. The wings vanished as quickly as they had appeared, and then his lips were crushing into mine. His tongue pried my mouth open, forcing himself into me, into the space where I could still taste Tamlin. I pushed and trashed, but he held firm, his tongue sweeping over the roof of my mouth, against my teeth, claiming me -
The door was flung wide, and Amarantha's curved figure filled its space. Tamlin - Tamlin was beside her, his eyes slightly wide, shoulders tight as Rhys's lips still crushed mine.
Amarantha laughed, and a mask of stone slammed down on Tamlin's face. void of feeling, void of anything vaguely like the Tamlin I'd been tangled up with moments before.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan
“What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?”
“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
Source: Ojalá lo supiera!: las cartas de Richard P. Feynman
“What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.”
Source: The wanderer
“What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.”
“What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“What do you consider work?”
“What? Do you dare smile and suggest for a moment that just because of the Absence between us I cannot make myself vivid to you? Ho! Silly boy! Don't you know that the plainest sort of black ink throbs more than some blood—and the touch of the softest hand is a harsh caress compared to the touch of a reasonably shrewd pen? Here—now, I say—this very moment: Lift this letter of mine to your face, and swear—if you're honestly able to—that you can't smell the rose in my hair!”
Source: Molly Make-Believe
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
Source: DUNE
“What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.”
“What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end.”
“What do you do for ecstasy?”
Source: The Peaceable Classroom
“What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“What do you do?"
"I am in search of God."
A culture where this answer is considered 'abnormal' is doomed.”
“What do you do?”
“I make custom penises.” Casey tapped the palm of his hand, beaming Paladin the address of a server packed with information on how to design and order the sex organs you’d always wanted.”
Source: Autonomous
“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”
“What do you do if you've got everything?
There's only one thing you can do. More.”
“What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?”
“What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.”
“What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.”
“What do you do in a pool when you don’t know how to swim? Learn. I guess that was the answer. I had managed to teach my body to stay afloat on water. Somehow, I’d stumbled on some principal of physics. And the best part of the whole thing was that I’d made the discovery all on my own.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“What do you do? It’s amazing how people will qualify, quantify, judge, assess, and form complete opinions about you based on that one age-old question. It is a boring, uncreative default setting for attempting to engage a new person.
Spice it up and try something new. Instead, ask "What do you do for fun?” Your creativity will make you more memorable and help you stand apart from the crowd.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“What do you do on daily basis to feed your mind with positive and empowering thoughts?”
“What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?'
'Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?'
'Forget I asked”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.”
“What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?”
“What do you do to stop a fire from burning? You kill it.”
Source: Seven Sins
“What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.”
“What do you do when half of your heart sprouts legs and decides to walk out the door? How does half a person live?”
“What do you do when it rains?" The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.”
“What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)”
“What do you do when neither person is wrong yet they completely disagree?”
Source: A Most Important Year
“What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.”
“What do you do when something you work on defeats you?”
“What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?”
“What do you do
When the noise that once defined you fades away.
When silence becomes the loudest thing you own.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”
Source: But I Love Him
“What do you do when the only person who can stop the tears is the person who's causing them?”
Source: Royals
“What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.”