W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.”
“What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”
Source: Enchantress from the Stars
“What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these
wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain
from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.”
Source: Thoughts
“What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?”
“What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.”
“What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?”
“What is it?' Stephanie whispered. 'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.' She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?' 'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.”
“What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.”
“What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.”
“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”
Source: Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)
“What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?”
“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”
“What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.”
“What is Justice? Truth in Action and Satisfaction with the Situation.”
“What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.”
“What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.”
“What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to the contrary — that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class. We recognize that mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one’s character. By extension, the failure of a race or ethnic group to move up reflects very poorly on the group as a whole.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class. We recognize the mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one's character.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“What is killing most of the big artist, is that they turn you down, without hearing what you can do or hearing the song you want them on first.
What is killing most big business , is that they turn you down, without hearing your offer or ideas.”
“What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New Orleans was a monster, in the immediate aftermath more than 200,000 people invite displaced strangers into their homes through hurricanehousing.org and an uncounted horde go to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to give, to love, to be in solidarity, and to rebuild.”
“What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?”
Source: The Fountainhead
“What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.”
“What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?”
“What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.”
“What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.”
“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”
Source: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
“What is known for certain is dull.”
“What is kshayak samkit? There is no awareness as the non-Self (parparinati) whatsoever, only the awareness as the Self (Swa-parinati) constantly prevails!”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?”
“What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”
“What is last year's snow to me,
Last year's anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?”
Source: The Reader
“What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.”
“What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.”
“What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
[Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]”
“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
Source: Pompeii
“What is learned can never be unlearned.”
“What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.”
Source: Coming of Age in America
“What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.”
“What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.”
“What is left after a death? Everything else. The sun a man saw rise goes down though he does not see it set. A woman sits down to the weaving another woman left in the loom.”
“What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death; the silence of the debris; the silence of the birds! After war even the screams of sadness are silent because the pain is in the very depths of the soul!”
“What is left is smell of coffee and our little conversations we used to speak about. I am left with the coffee you used to love affogato. With a novel you said I must buy you, I read Jane Ayre once an autumn gathering my pain to the seas of melancholy. Have you ever thought of dancing under the lame light? In this cafe I am left with conversations and smells of coffee and I still remember your smell vividly!”
Source: Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub
“What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.”
“What is left of your dream?
Just the words on your stone.
A man who learned how to teach
then forgot how to learn.”
“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?”