W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.”
“What has really changed in the industry is the consumer. The 'he' is now a 'she,'”
“What has reason to do with the art of painting?”
“What has reasoning to do with painting?”
“What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.”
“What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.”
Source: The Hobbit
“What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.”
“What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.”
Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]
“What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.”
“What has started you on this?" I asked. "We were talking about the holidays."
"Los Angeles is not a safe place for a young woman alone. I feel it in my bones."
"That's your arthritis, Aunt Sadie. Do you want me to get a gun? I'd probably shoot myself in the foot."
"I'd rather you got married again."
"That might be worse than shooting myself in the foot.”
Source: Take-Out City
“What has stayed constant between us is this cycle of losing and finding, this unending transference of vitality, without which we might feel directionless. Love of this sort, however, isn't about making a roadmap to an other who then becomes your compass. It is a proposition to nest in the unrepayable and every-mounting debt of care that stands in opposition to the careless and transactional practices of state power that mire the lives of NDNs and other minoritized populations. Having inherited your philosophy of love, which is also a theory of freedom, nôhkom, I can write myself into a narrative of joy that troubles the horrid fiction of race that stalks me as it does you and our kin.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
“What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter what - and the joy that writing has given me.”
“What has surprised me most about being a celebrity is the fascination with pregnant women. After I had Rocco, the paparazzi came and sought me out. I never had that before. There's a whole industry, literally, based on people having children. I guess because you're changing, putting on weight. It makes me very uncomfortable. I didn't enjoy that much at all.”
“What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.”
“What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?”
“What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the faithful love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it. It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and save us.”
“What has the potential to occur while thought quite rare in the past has become common in the present-day environment.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.”
“What has this new generation to offer the world? Only the fruits of their fear.”
Source: Long Lankin
“What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?”
“What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.”
Source: The Candy Shop War
“What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.”
Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization
“What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.”
“What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.”
Source: The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
“What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.”
Source: Buber's way to
“What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.”
“What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.”
“What has to happen will happen. Every lived experience teaches us to learn and evolve. Sometimes decisions we make work out well; and sometimes our choices blow up on our face. The best way to live Life is to learn, unlearn, relearn...and keep learning from every event, every decision, every choice, every person and every experience. Whether we like it or not, Life keeps on happening to us, Life keeps on flowing. And to be happy, we must keep flowing with Life…!”
“What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.”
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...”
“What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.”
“What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.”
“What hasn't been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal government. And what it says is, for every regulation presented for passage that Cabinet secretary has to identify two that person would eliminate. And that's a big deal.”
“What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.”
Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
“What hath befallen the valiant young knight that was always ready
to joust and do battle, and that with the greatest courage?” Brandon said
in disgust to Strephon, as they stood watching Sir Robert and Lady
Narcissa at a distance. “All the man thinks upon is Narcissa–he maketh
no secret of it. If this idiocy is what overcometh men who fall in love,
be thou assured that I will never be among them.”
Source: To Birmingham Castle: A Tale of Friendship and Adventure
“What Hath God Wrought.”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“What haunted me most wasn’t the ropes, or the chair, or the gasoline, though those played recurring parts in my nightmares. It wasn’t Alistair, or Hadrian’s crisis of conscience. It was that we’d had the time, Holmes and I. Three long minutes before the police made it to us, enough for her to turn to me and say, This is what you have to do, and why you have to do it.
No, what haunted me most was that I knew, had I confessed to August’s murder there on the lawn, Holmes would have found a way to clear my name. But she was letting her brother walk free for his mistake. She’d given up Bryony Downs to God knows what fate. She’d played judge and jury for Hadrian and Phillipa. And now she was letting herself be led away for a crime she didn’t commit, and she would walk away from it unscathed, and there would be no one doing time for August’s death.
It wasn’t hers to decide. It wasn’t mine, either. Charlotte Holmes had told me once that she wasn’t a good person. That day I’d begun to believe it.”
Source: The Case for Jamie
“What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.”
“What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.”
Source: No Logo
“What haunts me is that the prevalence of human trafficking, particularly the sex trafficking of underage girls and young women, means that I have almost definitely seen one of these individuals in my daily life. I’ve sat next to them on the bus, or ordered coffee right behind them. Were their eyes begging for my help, and I simply overlooked, did not notice?
Shenita Etwaroo”
“What have been called “women’s issues” are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated institutionally with respect as a human being is a freedom issue.”
Source: Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
“What have cops ever done for our community? Nothing.”
“What have future generations ever done for us?”
“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
“What have I become?
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”