W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.”
“What have I done to anger you, mate?”
“That. That’s what you did. I’m not your mate.”
He leaned in close and ran his nose up her neck, inhaling a deep breath. “Yes, you are,” he whispered next to her ear.”
“What have I done to deserve this life?”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?”
“What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?”
“What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63
“What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.”
“What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.”
Source: The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III
“What have I done?" I whispered. Jill put her arm around me, but it was Dimitri who spoke. "What you had to.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“What have I ever done that God should make me suffer so? I feel that my abnormality bars me out of the ministry, the profession of my choice, and most likely out of all other professions. I feel that this passion is going to wreck my life, and never permit me to make any return to my parents for all they have done for me. I have no hope for the future. In the convention, while I would be singing, I was in thought hacking my body to pieces with a sword, or piercing my breast with a dagger. My continuous prayer was :
‘ Father, Father, hear my humble cry.
While on others thou art smiling,
Do not pass me by !”
Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne
“What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.”
“What have I got better than anyone? Age.”
“What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?”
Source: The Hobbit
“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”
“What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.”
“What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.”
“What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked.”
Source: The Pearl
“What have I to forgive and whom?”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.”
“What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?”
“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”
“What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him. "They saved your life," he said. And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled.”
Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
“What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me?”
Source: Crave
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
“What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.”
Source: The Night is Darkening Round Me
“What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.”
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
Source: The End of the Affair
“What have we all, we
who have nothing left but longing to be free
of our lashed satiety.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley
“What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”
“What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.”
“What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.”
“What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.”
Source: America dances
“What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.”
“What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!”
Source: The Dramatic Works
“What have we left to dream about? The clouds are no longer the charioted servants of the sun, nor does he any more bathe his glowing brow in the bath of Thetis; the rainbow has ceased to be the messenger of the Gods, and hunger longer their awful voice, warning man of that which is to come. We have the sun which has been weighed and measured, but not understood; we have the assemblage of the planets, the congregation of the stars, and the yet unshackled ministration of the winds: - such is the list of our ignorance.”
“What have we to fear, we who believe?”
Source: Les Misérables
“What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.”
“What have you been doing to that book, you depraved boy?'
'It isn't the library's, it's mine!' said Harry hastily, snatching his copy of Advanced Potion-Making off the table as she lunged at it with a clawlike hand.
'Despoiled!' she hissed. 'Desecrated! Befouled!'
'It's just a book that's been written in!' said Harry, tugging it out of her grip.
She looked as though she might have a seizure; Hermione, who had hastily packed her things, grabbed Harry by the arm and frogmarched him away.
'She'll ban you from the library if you're not careful. Why did you have to bring that stupid book?'
'It's not my fault she's barking mad, Hermione. Or d'you think she overheard you being rude about Filch? I've always thought there might be something going on between them ...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“What have you been eating?"
"Jalebis." Anika held up a bright orange, pretzel-shaped sweet similar to a funnel cake.
"Yesterday, we helped Dadi make chocolate peda," Zaina informed her, using the Urdu term for "paternal grandmother."
"And the day before that we made burfi, and before that we made-"
"Peanut brittle." Anika grinned.
Layla bit back a laugh. Her mother had a sweet tooth, so it wasn't surprising that she'd made treats with her granddaughters in the kitchen.”
Source: The Marriage Game
“What have you come here for, Alina?”
I answered him honestly. “I wanted to see you.”
I caught the briefest glimpse of surprise before his face shuttered again. “There are two thrones on
that dais. You could see me anytime you liked.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.”
“What have you done?' Evangeline demanded.
'Exactly what you asked.' Another bite of his apple. 'I made sure the wedding didn't happen.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!”
“What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?”
“What have you done? If you clip the wings of a butterfly, it has become a worm. And because the butterfly will not live as the lives, it will die.”
Source: Trees by the river