W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.”
“What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.”
“What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal-insofar as an individual woman can, and as much as possible with other women--the separation between mind and body; never again to lose myself both psychically and physically in that way”
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“What I carry is mine alone. A private apocalypse, constant and precise.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
Source: Mythologies
“What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.”
“What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.”
“What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't' want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break. You'll be offered the "lead" in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, "a fabulous part" - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.”
“What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.”
“What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.”
“What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.”
“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.”
“What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”
Source: Baselitz
“What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.”
“What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as people connected over something and the way the multiplication of people intensified it around us. Energy made me both love and hate being in large crowds because there was too much chaos to the peace and too much peace to the chaos.”
Source: Intrepid
“What I couldn’t stand was not that I couldn’t sleep with Mutsuki, but that Mutsuki was so calm and kind about everything. The feeling I had that I was embracing water came not from the loneliness of a sexless marriage, but from the complex we both had about it – the suffocating need to be sensitive to each other’s feelings the whole time.”
Source: Twinkle Twinkle
“What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism”
“What I created got abominated.”
“What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.”
“What I'd give for a holocaust cloak, he said then. There we can't help you, Inigo said.
Will this do? Fezzik wondered, pulling out his holocaust cloak.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“What I 'd like first is someone to raise them with, someone who will look at me and say, 'that one. I want that one.' You know what I mean? I want someone who will know right away that he wants to be with me and raise kids with me and just...love me.”
Source: Take My Picture
“What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.”
Source: Death at the Bar
“What I'd like more than anything," he said quietly, "is for you to listen to an apology."
"You have nothing to apologize for."
"I'm afraid I do." He let out a measured breath. "But first, I have something to give you."
He went to a cabinet in a corner of the room and rummaged through its contents. Finding the object he sought... a small book... he brought it to her.
Phoebe blinked in wonder as she read the gold and black lettering on the battered cloth cover. The title was worn and faded, but still legible.
Stephen Armstrong: Treasure Hunter
Opening the book with unsteady fingers, she found the words written on the inside cover in her own childish hand, long ago.
Dear Henry, whenever you feel alone, look for the kisses I left for you on my favorite pages.
Blinded by a hot, stinging blur, Phoebe closed the book. Even without looking, she knew there were tiny x's in the margins of several chapters.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists? Such balderdash takes various forms, but it is at its worst when it is religious. Why should this be so? What is there in religion that completely flabbergasts the wits of those who believe in it? I see no logical necessity for that flabbergasting. Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. In other fields such hypotheses are common, and yet they do no apparent damage to those who incline to them. But in the religious field they quickly rush the believer to the intellectual Bad Lands. He not only becomes anaesthetic to objective fact; he becomes a violent enemy of objective fact. It annoys and irritates him. He sweeps it away as something somehow evil...”
Source: American Mercury
“What I'd loved was what money could make happen. Money could buy you things, but more so, buy you time: time to travel, to write, to read, to walk, to have sex.”
Source: The Book of the Most Precious Substance
“What I'd said wasn't any kind of honesty, but Simon had perfected the art of seeing what he wanted to see, because it's easier to go through life like that, to see the world as a series of familiar things, a place where everyone feels how you feel and sees what you see.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.”
Source: The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
“What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.”
“What,’ I demanded, ‘you don't believe me? You don't think people can be sucked into doing something out of fear, or inability to see any other way out?”
Source: The Woman in Cabin 10
“What I deserved and what I could expect from life were two different things.”
Source: If I Was Your Girl
“What I desire desires me.”
Source: African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
“What I desire is what I desire and what you desire is what you desire. What most people fail to understand is the pronoun you.”
“What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.”
“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.”
“What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.”
“What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.”
Source: Forest Child
“What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.”
“What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.”
“What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.”
“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.”
“What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.”
“What I did mind were the nights when I was confronted with myself, the nights I had no girl to distract me, no drug to satisfy me, the nights when I actually had to think about life and face it. On the nights when I had to look straight at who I was, who I had become, inexplicably, I would punch myself in the face as hard as I could. I would pummel my face until I fell asleep, eyes bruised and full of tears.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.”
Source: The lightning thief
“What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.”
“What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.”
“What I did not realize when I was reporting worker behavioral problems to the professional astronomy management team was the astronomers probably had comparable health issues.”
“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
“What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.”