W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.”
“What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.”
“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”
“What if someone had the potential to discover a formula to unlock the mysteries of the universe wanted to become a pulp fiction writer?
What if someone who had the potential to create unparalleled gastronomic delicacies had his heart set on civil engineering?
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?”
Source: All You Need Is Kill 2
“What if someone had told me, thirty
years ago: If you give up, now,
wanting to be an artist, he might
love you all your life—what would I
have said? I didn't even have an art,
it would could from out of our family's life—
what could I have said: nothing will stop me.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.”
“What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that hurt you? Can you be angry at the stick? Of course not. Should you be angry at the wielder of the stick? Wouldn't it make more sense to be angry at the hatred in the mind of the stick wielder? If you think about it, isn't the end of hatred in the world what you want most of all? Why, then, would you add to it by giving energy to your anger? After all, it will pass on its own if left alone, especially if you respond to it with compassion.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
“What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.”
“What if something happens to me out here and I can’t get home again?” Susan worried.
“I’ll take care of you,” Martie promised, although in light of her own peculiar state of mind, the promise might prove empty.
“But what if something happens to you?”
“Nothing is going to happen to me,” Martie vowed as she switched on the windshield wipers.
“Something can happen to anybody. Look at what happened to me.”
Source: False Memory
“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?”
Source: Infinite Jest
“What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“What if suffering doesn’t end with death? How can we know? What if it doesn’t get better? What if death isn’t an escape?”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“What if that One thing you're afraid of is the One thing you need, to get Your Big Breakthrough and Go to The Next Level?”
“What if that something that serves to preserve the memory of you is me?”
“What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?”
“What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?”
“What if...the attack changed something?
What if it changed me?”
Source: Ignite
“What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?”
“What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.”
Source: Maps of the Mind
“What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?”
“What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?”
“What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.”
“What if the disciples heard Jesus say the temple and religious lead ers would be destroyed and knew it meant the end of the Old Covenant age? Without a temple and religious leaders, the Old Covenant would be unable to function. Could you imagine the United States government functioning without the president, the secret service, and the White House? In fact, one-third of the Old Covenant laws required a standing temple.”
“What if the disciples heard Jesus say the temple and religious leaders would be destroyed and knew it meant the end of the Old Covenant age? Without a temple and religious leaders, the Old Covenant would be unable to function. Could you imagine the United States government functioning without the president, the secret service, and the White House? In fact, one-third of the Old Covenant laws required a standing temple.”
“What if the dog fetches the stick back because it thinks you enjoy the throwing?”
“What if the emptiness you feel is not something to escape… but a path to follow?”
“What if the future you’re coding is quietly coding you back?”
Source: DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
“What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?”
“What if the goal of Jesus was not just to get us from earth to heaven after we die, but to empower us to bring heaven to earth before we die?”
“What if the ground of reality—the foundational substance from which everything emerges—is not matter but Consciousness: That there is no thing that is not Consciousness?”
“What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?”
“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?…If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”
Source: The Goldfinch
“What if the house catches fire?” “Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you’ll go down with the ship. If there’s a tornado, I’ll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?”
Source: Reaper
“What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?”
“What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?”
Source: Fans of the Impossible Life
“What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?”
“What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?”
“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?”
“What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?”
“What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?”
“What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.
In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.”
“What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?”
Source: The Mosquito Bites
“What if the most important thing in life is not feeling safe? What if it's to love something or someone enough that they're worth risking for?”
Source: The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake
“What if the mysterious unity behind physics… was the same unity behind faith?”
Source: The One-Electron Universe: How a Single Particle Bridges Quantum Physics and God
“What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.”
“What if the night sky
is but a reflection of us—
Utter chaos in mute.”
Source: Cherry Blossoms: A Haiku Poetry Book
“What if the nose really did get longer with each lie told? I wonder if people would stop telling lies or if they would lie about why their nose is 12' long.”
“What if the ‘not enough’ voice in your head is wrong? What if every step you’re taking is exactly what it’s supposed to be?”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.”