W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.”
Source: Morrigan's Cross
“What if there's another terrorist attack? I cringe at the ideas of our enemies watching this, knowing much like the president we have now. You can do anything you want, you can jerk us around, you can harass our naval ships the way Iran is doing right now, and we're not going to do anything. We're not going to react.”
“What if there's no such thing as PMS and this is just my personality?”
Source: Unmanned
“What if they all left? What if everyone else flew to the Otherlands or went still and I was here alone? Would I keep going? I would. I can't seem to treat this life I have as anything but the only thing.”
Source: Reached
“What if they gave a war and nobody came?”
“What if they take you captive?” Goradel asked.
“My dear man,” Breeze said, leaning forward to look out at Goradel. “That’s why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable.”
Goradel frowned at that. “I don’t feel very expendable.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”
Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus
“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”
Source: Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel
“what if this chaos in us is beautiful… and we don’t have to sort it out.”
“What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
To wash it white as snow?”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“What if this is it? My chance to say goodbye to someone I hardly know, but long for a chance to get to know? Death and goodbyes . . . are they always this unfair?”
Source: Kings of Muraine
“What if this is it?
What if I've set a series of events into motion that will doom me to be trapped forever in some desperate monotonous life and in my last breaths, when I look back at all the mistakes I've made, I'll remember this moment, now, as the moment I truly fucked it all up. And then I die.”
Source: boom
“What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?”
Source: Nora Goes Off Script
“What if this present were the world's last night?”
“What if this reality is a dream, and when we die, we actually wake up?”
“What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.”
“What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?”
Source: Imaginative qualities of actual things
“What if those deep desires in our hearts are telling us the truth, revealing to us the life we were meant to live?
God gave us eyes so that we might see; he gave us ears that we might hear; he gave us will that we might choose, and he gave us hearts that we might live.
The way we handle the heart is everything.”
Source: Wild at Heart Expanded Edition: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“What if thou be saint or sinner,
Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,--
Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
When Death thee shall call.
All like are rich or richer,
King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
When the grave hides all.”
Source: LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,
“What if time really exists, like - everything all at once, all at the same moment, every single moment happening at the same time, over and over, for all eternity. Simultaneously.”
Source: Everything All at Once
“what if today i breathe easy here in my skin, and exhale, unafraid, trusting that there is a destiny-kissed grace saving me from any cruel wind that may blow back. i could stand a little stronger in my space… knowing that it’s universe-given and me-shaped.
maybe i'll even glow a little here, be a little wider-winged and brighter-lighted. let myself consider that everything i am and all that i want to be is ok.
and maybe not just ok… but what if i am perfectly on purpose. and what if i can trust that every next step is the one i'm meant to take and that even when i feel wayward, i'm still always on my destiny-blessed way.”
“What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.”
“What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?”
“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”
“What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?”
Source: What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional
“What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?”
“What if two people want to be your partner, then what?”
“What if upon entering the classroom, children find teachers listening attentively for their questions and stories, demonstrating a willingness to engage them in "playing out" their ideas using classroom materials while their propensity to ask questions is at its peak? What if well-educated teachers are guiding children to observe, discuss, imagine, and debate possibilities in the company of their equally eager peers? Our youngest children could,be in such conservatories of educational excellence in our public stools, preparing for their future in school and beyond.”
Source: The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms
“What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?”
“What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?”
“What if we all came with a Fact Sheet- like car fax- Not an opinion, assumption or guess about who we were or what someone thought or heard about us, but a real fact sheet. A human history report lol- What would yours say? Would you be a lemon?”
“What if we all stopped fighting to belong and realized that we already do? What if we acknowledged, in each interaction with ourselves and with others, the eternal, beautiful interconnected energy that flows between us? What if we recognized our equality and celebrated our differences? Imagine how the world could be.”
“What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?”
“WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.”
“What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn’t bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That doesn’t make them lies. Seeded with every myth was the emotional truth.”
Source: The Butterfly Girl
“What if we are all simply lost souls blown off course, just trying to get home?”
Source: Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road
“What if we are
all temples for the
presents and presence
of divine delight
to shine through?”
Source: The Girl Who Dances With Delight
“What if we are unborn stars waiting to light up the world for others.”
“What if we brainstormed for Questions?”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“What if we changed the story that has been peddled to us over thousands of years by those religions that want to control us, that this life is merely a stepping stone to something better or something worse, and that we can only achieve the better by passing through the doors of their institutions and following their rules? What if we trash this arcane story which has caused so much suffering and hostility, and accept that we have already arrived in heaven and that there is nothing more gorgeous than here and now?”
Source: Random Acts Of Heroic Love
“What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.”
Source: Myth & the Body - A colloquy with Joseph Campbell
“What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.”
“What if we clamored and yelled, fought in every way we could? And what if we weren't alone? What if it was all of us together rising? Can you imagine it? Can you imagine what we could do?”
Source: When the Reckoning Comes
“What if we could actually get to the place where we thanked God for letting us face this battle because of the rich treasures we discovered on the battlefield?”
Source: Made to Crave: Book & Devotional
“What if we could live a completely meaningless life full of pleasure and devoid of pain? Would we not be happy? Something deep within tells us no.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?”
“What if we could pray with our bodies while our souls are asleep?”
Source: Gods and Humans
“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”
Source: We Were Liars
“What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?”
“what if we don’t ask this
to burden bear,
or heavy lift, and sift
through pain,
maybe we can do our own work,
so breath, and romance,
and what we taste like in every
color of love
can be what fills this space
– intimacy”