W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few days was nothing but a dream of yours?
Would you go back to sleep then?
I wake up each morning only to realize you're not by my side. And if this emptiness is nothing but a nightmare, let me wake up and go back to the time we were together...”
“What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?”
“What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?”
“What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.”
“What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”
Source: Obedience
“What if you were conditioned to choose wrong?”
Source: Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud
“What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.”
“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”
“What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”
“What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?”
“What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.”
“What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?'”
“What if your body grows older but your mind fails to grow you up? You now have a small boy or girl trapped in a grown person’s body.”
Source: Know What Matters
“What if your DNA made you a criminal? What would you do?”
“What if your dreams and greats where in the same place? Would you run or would you stay? This life is a game and you have to decide if you want to play!”
“What if your enemy were your enemy because
of poor communication and misunderstanding?
What if your enemy were your enemy because of
the instigative nature of the ego? What if your enemy
were a necessary obstacle put in your life by
fate to challenge you to become the higher version
of self? I wonder about that because what if your
enemy is in fact, your hero? Make sure the snake
in your life isn’t just your pride and ego.”
Source: Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud
“What if your greatest heartbreak catapults you to your greatest growth? This is the question on the back of my book.”
Source: Depth: Growing Through Heartbreak to Strength
“What if your greatest struggles were secretly shaping your finest moments? Every setback is an invitation—an opportunity to become the person you’re destined to be. Embrace the struggle; greatness grows in the gap.”
“What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?”
Source: Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands
“What if your lack of focus wasn’t failure—but a signal that your clarity system needs repair?”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“What if your life — every success, every connection — was a an illusion?”
Source: Disconnected: A Mortal Reality
“What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?”
“What if your softness is your greatest strength?”
Source: ROOTED: The Root. The Rise. The Overflow
“What if your Vision Board came true?”
“What if your whole life could be a meditation?
I’m not suggesting some far-off retreat center where the worries of the world couldn’t reach you. Nope. I’m suggesting the opposite.
Create a space inside you that is so peaceful, so unflappable, that you’d never “need” a vacation away from it…and that is how to turn a life into a meditation.”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?”
“What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'”
“What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.”
“What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.
What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?”
“What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.”
“What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.”
“What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.”
“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”
“What ignorance there is in human minds.”
“What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.”
“What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and clear. And to put one's work confidently in the crucible of Time; to know that in six perfect pages is the finest form of one's idea: This satisfaction is the only true reward of the artist, and this his highest possible joy on Earth.”
“What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching — the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.”
Source: The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications
“What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.”
“What immortal ever knew what it was like to number his days?
Yet I can feel the hours passing when she is near”
“What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within national borders. For the first time, investment of power did not pave the way for investment of money, since uncontrollable investments in distant countries threatened to transform large strata of society into gamblers, to change the whole capitalist economy from a system of production to a system of financial speculation, and to replace the profits of production with profits in commissions. The decade immediately before the imperialist era, the seventies of the last century, witnessed an unparalleled increase in swindles, financial scandals, and gambling in the stock market.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”
“What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.”
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.”
“What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.”
“What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.”
Source: My Life in France
“What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.”
Source: Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]
“What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.”