W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?”
“What if happiness was a choice?”
“What if?" he asked himself. What if, instead of sneaking away from his responsibilities, he had faced them? What if, instead of caving to his father's demands, he had fought against them? Mazen would never know. The past was the past, a story already told, and though he could certainly weave it into a different tale, it would not change the reality.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“What if he comes for me? For us?’
‘My girl,’ said Skedi, and tipped his antlers forward, resting them against her brow. ‘I would fight the world for you.”
Source: Faithbreaker
“What if he decdied to keep things as just friends? What if he didn't want to make anything awkward at work between us?
What if, what if what if...
What if I'm spending the day with my better half? What if this is just the beginning?”
Source: Love & Monsters
“What if he doesn’t want me too? What if I implode my entire fucking life—”
“Then we’ll pick up the pieces and build something new.”
We’ll pick up the pieces.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“What if he hates me?"
"No one could possibly hate you, Xander," I told him, my heart twisting.
"Avery, people have hated me my whole life." There was something in his tone that made me think that very few people understood what it was like to be Xander Hawthorne.
"Not anyone who knows you," I said fiercely.
Xander smiled, and something about it made me want to cry. "Do you think it's okay," he said, sounding younger than I'd ever heard him, "that I loved playing those Saturday morning games? Loved growing up here? Loved the great and terrible Tobias Hawthorne?”
Source: The Final Gambit
“What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?”
“What if,' he says, mischief in his eyes, 'in the interest of saving time, we pretend that we've played twice more and I won once, so you owe me a dance. But you won the second time, so if you have anything else to ask me, you may.'
They are teasing words, and I am suddenly in a teasing mood.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“What if he turns out to be a reasonable human being with a reasonable-sized ego?"
"Than I'll dedicate the rest of my life to the service of the Holy Mother and make a pilgrimage to Lourdes." Rosemary laughed. "People with reasonable-sized egos don't become MBAs, Max. They sell beers at the ballpark — or something.”
Source: White Palace
“What if he wakes up before you get home and steals you blind? (Wayne) Steals what? My clothes won’t fit him and I have nothing of any value. Not unless he likes my Peter, Paul, and Mary collection anyway. (Sunshine)”
Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
“What if he were an ordinary man who has been rightfully allotted no more than a mediocre destiny?”
Source: Il deserto dei Tartari
“What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth?...The spring mornings they woke up to a million birds singing their hearts out, and the summer afternoons with the swim towels hung over the porch rail, and the October air that smelled like wood smoke and apple cider, and the warm yellow windows of home when they came in on a snowy night. "That's what my experience has been,' they say, and it gets folded in with the others--one more report on what living felt like. What it was like to be alive.”
“What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive?”
Source: Corrupt
“What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?”
“What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.”
“What if I already am
who I think I can never
be.”
Source: Spiraleggiante: Raccolta di poesie
“What if I am dead?'
'Sorry?'
'I mean, in another life. There must be other lives in which I died before today.'
Mrs. Elm looked intrigued. 'Isn't that what you wanted?'
'Well, yes, but—'
'You have died an infinite number of times before today, yes. Car accident, drug overdose, drowning, a bout of fatal food poisoning, choking on an apple, choking on a cookie, choking on a vegan hot dog, choking on a non-vegan hot dog, every illness it was possible for you to catch or contract...You have died in every way you can, at any time you could.'
'So, I could open a book and just die?'
'No. Not instantaneously. As with Voltaire, the only lives available here are, well, lives. I mean, you could die in that life, but you won't have died before you enter the life because this Midnight Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility. Understand?”
Source: The Midnight Library
“What if I am too much? If I need too much?' she asks, her voice very low.
He takes a deep breath, his smile gone. 'I'm not good. I'm not kind. Maybe I am not even safe. But whatever you want from me, I will give you.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.”
“What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?”
“What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?” The earl looked daggers. “I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.”
“What if I bade you leave
The cavern of the mind?
There's better exercise
In the sunlight and wind.”
Source: The Major Works
“What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?”
Source: Crazy
“What if I can’t get it up?” Guy wailed.
“That’s of no importance if you’re on the right end of a whip.”
Source: Our Young Man
“What if I can't get out?
I want to.
I'm just so tired
of being picked apart
and scattered like
ashes.
I see now
that my
demons
are
scavengers.
But the darkness
is an old
friend I can't say no to.”
Source: Melancholy Dreams: Surviving the Battle of Depression - Poems
“What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“What if I cease to exist altogether?”
Source: The Holiday Spirit
“What if I choose the dream instead?”
“What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.”
“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.”
“What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!”
“What if I don’t give you leave,” Mandhata spoke finally.
“Then I will stay,” he replied sadly. “But with a hollow chest. My heart is gone since a long time. You know that.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“What if I don’t want to go?”
“I like you, kid,” he says. “You’re a rebel.” He leans against the doorframe and nods his approval. “But to be honest, no one has the obligation to feed you, house you, protect you, be nice to you, treat you like a human being—”
“Okay, okay. I get it.”
Source: World After
“What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.”
“What if I don’t like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.”
“What if I fall oh but my darling what if you fly”
“What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
“What if I forgot my 12 word phrase for”
“What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?”
Source: One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces
“What if I give you Oak’s head instead of Cardan’s?” Jude asks suddenly.
...
He knows she’s not serious about her offer. But that doesn’t mean she’s not serious about wanting to kill him.
How foolish Oak has been, making himself seem like Cardan’s enemy.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”
Source: Little Brother
“What if I had been a pebble, or a stone, or a tree or a dog! What if I had been a cloud or a drop of rain! What if I had not been born! I would have loved to be anything but a human being. To live is to suffer. You are responsible for my being here.”
“What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.”
“What if I had made different choices from the start? What if I had stuck around to watch another year of seasons spin here in Oxford, staying to see the daffodils bloom or to wander beneath the privet tunnel hand in hand with Fisher? What if we had kept right on kissing until the naked ladies emerged near the Osage orange? What if I had lingered long enough to see cape jasmine arrive, her voluptuous white bundles an aromatic call for summer love? Or even longer, when the spider lilies burst open in the fall and the yellow autumn light fell low among missy roots? What if I had stayed through winter, forming snow angels with my lover beneath the icy cedar boughs? What if I had not let fear defeat me after Fisher knelt before me in my mother's backyard garden, ring in his hand and happy-ever-after in his heart?”
Source: Perennials
“What if I had made different choices from the start? What if I had stuck around to watch another year of seasons spin here in Oxford, staying to see the daffodils bloom or to wander beneath the privet tunnel hand in hand with Fisher? What if we had kept right on kissing until the naked ladies emerged near the Osage orange? What if I had lingered long enough to see cape jasmine arrive, her voluptuous white bundles an aromatic call for summer love? Or even longer, when the spider lilies burst open in the fall and the yellow autumn light fell low among mossy roots? What if I had stayed through winter, forming snow angels with my lover beneath the icy cedar boughs? What if I had not let fear defeat me after Fisher knelt before me in my mother's backyard garden, ring in his hand and happy-ever-after in his heart?”
Source: Perennials
“What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?”
Source: In the Age of Love and Chocolate
“What if I have come to see same-gender love as a really solid choice—just a brilliant idea? Something I would highly recommend?
And what if I demand freedom not because I was “born this way” and “can’t help it” but because I can do whatever I choose to do with my love and my body from year to year, moment to moment—because I’m a grown woman who does not need any excuse to live however I want to live and love whomever I want to love?
What if I don’t need your permission slip because I’m already free?”
Source: Untamed