W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if it was an elaborate trick or test? What if she failed, and now King Eadric was sending guards her way?
Or even worse, Sandor just wasn’t going to follow through. What if King Eadric had intimidated him into backing out? What if he had realized she wasn’t worth the risk? Why would he risk his life to help someone who had been nothing but awful to him?
She waited.
What if she was right?”
Source: Stalks of Gold
“What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?”
“what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.”
Source: Lauren Kate: Fallen & Torment
“What if it was Persephone who kidnapped Hades...”
Source: Landline
“What if it were him on television, explaining science to the masses? He's no meteorologist. He doesn't have a fancy degree. But he might do the job with ease, same as her. What separates them? Opportunity? The fact she was born here, and he on the island? We're just a slave-ship stop away from each other.”
Source: Loca
“What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.”
Source: Daedalus Rising - The True Story of Icarus
“What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?”
Source: The Cosmic Serpent
“What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.”
“What if Jesus really meant every word He said?”
“What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?”
“What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?”
Source: The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything
“What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.”
Source: Just Pretending
“What if les charmantes think differently, act differently than humans who don't have magic? What if we behave instinctually in ways that are basically in ways that are basically anathema to normal society?"
Belle sighed. "What if you, Rosalind, my mother, act differently from humans- and everyone else? The villagers, the servants, the government? What if you personally hold yourself above the law- as a vigilante? What if it's just you? You're doing the same thing D'Arque did... applying the actions of one to a whole people. That's ridiculous. Whether you're Huguenot or Catholic or Jewish or gypsy or short or have dark skin- or blue skin. Everyone is different. Each person has his or her own destiny."
Rosalind gave her a sly look. "That's very wise, and clever. You're still an avid reader.”
Source: As Old as Time
“What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.”
“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“What If Life Is A Cage,
And Freedom Is Death?”
“What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.”
“What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?”
“What if love has its secret thoughts,of tight emotions,the mystic sacrifices—and suicides and bare forlornness,the fright and tenderness on young, unripened faces.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“What if love is something that shapes us because of what we give, not what we get in return? What if God wants us to love people until it hurts--and then continue to love even more?”
Source: Goodnight to My Thoughts of You
“What if love is this fun game that started from heaven with you and I, perfectly together.
And then, at some point, we agreed to play a game, to be tossed into a world in which we would spend the rest of our lives trying to find each other.
Wouldn't it be fun to know that no matter what, no matter when, no matter how, and no matter where, at some point I'd find you, and say ... "Hello.”
“What if love wasn’t a mysterious “thing” that capriciously attached itself to whomever it willed? Could it be instead a deliberate choice of action? Jesus had commanded His followers to “love one another.” Would He give such a commandment if people had no control over their ability to love? And does that mean that romantic love between a man and woman can be cultivated, just as Mrs. Kingston cultivates her roses? She recalled standing at a window facing the Anwyl and determining that, like Saint Paul, she would learn contentment. If contentment could be achieved through an act of will, then why couldn’t love? And it would seem that a love purposely cultivated for a man because of his kind nature and comforting ways would eventually grow stronger and deeper than one based on mere physical attraction.”
Source: The Widow of Larkspur Inn
“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”
Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel
“What if Loves are analogous to math? First, arithmetic, then geometry and algebra, then trig and quadratics…”
“What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?”
“What if magic is just mislabeled peace?”
Source: Shark Heart
“What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.”
“What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?”
“What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?”
“What if Melania is a Red Sparrow?”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of experience so far?”
Source: At Last
“What if: memory is the light you swallow?”
Source: Dear Diaspora
“What if miliseconds influence centuries?”
“What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?”
“What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?”
“What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?”
“What if my body—just my body, my heart—cried out for his? What to do then?
What if at night I wouldn't be able to live with myself unless I had him by me, inside me? What then?”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?”
Source: New School & Other Stuff
“What if my brother, who you taught and called "brilliant" - as if I didn't know - is the better model? Sounds about right, since he got the better version of my parents too.”
Source: Ode to a Nobody
“What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?”
Source: What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional
“What if my own life was like a flower? Something I had to continually tend to and nurture. Sicily was the water and sun that fortified me to stand stronger in my life after loss. And maybe my leaving a rock at the cemetery, as an act of remembrance, had additional meaning. Maybe it was a symbol of the lasting permanence of Saro's love. His love, life, illness, and death had taught me so much but it was the undergirding of his love that was my salvation in loss.”
Source: From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
“What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.”
“What if my words Were meant for deeds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.”
Source: What Happened on Fox Street
“What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?”
“What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?”
“What if not just women, but both men and women, worked smart, more flexible schedules? What if the workplace itself was more fluid than the rigid and narrow ladder to success of the ideal worker? And what if both men and women became responsible for raising children and managing the home, sharing work, love, and play? Could everyone then live whole lives?”
Source: Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time
“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”