W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”
“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be.”
Source: Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.”
“What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.”
“What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discussion, and thus some kind of organization involved in it.”
“What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.”
“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”
“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.”
Source: The Cat's Table
“What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.”
“What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.”
“What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.”
“What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.”
“What is interesting to me, as I travel, is that exactly the same agenda is being implemented in every country I travel to. Because people from different countries don't talk to each other and the international media are being used to bring about the changes desired by the global elite, nobody realizes this.”
“What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.”
“What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!”
“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.”
“What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.”
“What is, is, what ain't, ain't”
Source: Careful What You Think: Why Some Fail to Succeed
“What is is what must be.”
“What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'”
“What is it about a fat body that is so offensive? How on earth does the melanin in my skin incite a frown? Have you seen this skin in the sun?! Whew! The golden undertones that highlight my cheekbones are glorious! The rolls that make up my person are warm and inviting. No one that has been embraced by them leaves unsatisfied. In my hands there is healing. In my presence, I house joy.”
“What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make perfect, when to everyone else you speak to they're quite ordinary. It's a cruel sort of thing.”
“What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.”
“What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.”
“What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.”
“What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.”
“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”
Source: For One More Day
“What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?”
Source: The Shape of Content
“What is it about crying? As if my body believes that squeezing all its salt out might somehow quell the sadness. As if sadness is a parasite which suckles on sodium chloride.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours.”
“What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.”
“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.”
“What is it about guys named Adam?”
Source: Come What May
“What is it about her, Duncan?” he said finally. “She fights me at every turn, then nearly dies defending me. She comes more than willingly to my bed, then runs the very next morning. She wants nothing to do with me, and yet I find her... fascinating.”
Source: Raphael
“What is it about her that is so goddamned special?”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“What is it about him that gets you so riled?”
“It’s not him, Zane. It’s you.”
“Me? What’d I do?”
“He is a threat to both of us. You’ve seen what he’s capable of, and I have to tell you, I don’t think he’s trying yet. I think he’s just a fucking raptor testing the fences. When I look at him, I see him hurting you.”
Zane’s chest twisted in a way that wasn’t unpleasant. He knew that feeling, being so protective and so desperate to keep his loved ones safe that it clouded his world.
“I’m not worried.”
“No?”
“I’ve got you here watching my back,” Zane said with a serene smile. He didn’t think he’d felt so calm inside in years. “And I’ve got yours.”
Source: Armed & Dangerous
“What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?”
Source: Second Helpings
“What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share the experience with others. I have to think it is about bringing gifts from spirit back to the spirit in humans. All I know is that after I experienced the four years of intimate conversations with God/spirit/my higher self/the universe and the resulting growth and healing, I would ask myself, “What should I do?” and the answer was always, relentlessly, write a book and share it.”
Source: Do You Doubt the Daffodil?
“What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.”
Source: The Book of Idle Pleasures
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, intently studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit, tracing the course of obscure rivers, checking elevations, consulting the marginal notes to see what a little circle with a flag on it signifies and what's the difference between a pictogram of an airplane with a circle around it and one without, issuing small profound "hmmmms" and nodding my head gravely without having the faintest idea why.”
Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.”
Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe
“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”
Source: Kindertransport: A Drama
“What is it about me that made her leave?”
Source: Cedar Valley
“What is it about me that threatens them so much they would rather see carnage like this than just let me live my life?", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”
“What is it about men? We see something fresh and pure--when the snow falls, we can't help it. We rush for our boots and go tromping about until it's brown and muddy.”
Source: Inheritance
“What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.”
Source: Burning Up
“What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“What is it about noticing beauty that brings you out of yourself and returns you to yourself?”
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.”
Source: Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness