W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning .”
“What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.”
Source: Collected essays
“What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.”
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.”
“What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.”
“What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.”
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
Source: Minority Report
“What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.”
“What men yearn for they often destroy.”
Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.”
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.”
“what mercy is, isn’t it? It’s what you give to people who deserve otherwise.”
Source: A Fantastic Confluence
“What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.”
“What message can you give to the world by waiting at a station where no train can ever pass? You can give the message that miracles should be believed in under all circumstances, or you can show the world that stupidity has no limits!”
“What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?”
Source: Golden Jubilee Souvenir
“What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.”
“What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.”
“What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.”
“What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.”
“What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page.”
“What,” Mick said softly, “is Lad doin’ in me bed?”
Hearing his name, Lad opened small, piggish, upside-down eyes, gazing with idiotic adoration as his whip-thin tail thumped the covers.
“Ah.” Harry scratched behind one ear. “Well, see, ’e was lookin’ so forlorn, like, out in the courtyard by ’imself. Seemed an awful shame to leave ’im there all alone.”
“Off!” Mick roared at the dog.
Lad’s transformation was instantaneous. His tiny triangle ears folded back, his eyes narrowed worriedly, and he rolled so that he could crawl toward the edge of the bed on his belly.
“Is that mud on his paws?” Mick asked in outrage.
Harry glanced at the dog. “I do believe it is,” he said as if making a discovery.
“Christ!” Mick watched disgustedly as Lad made the edge of the bed and slithered off, thumping to the floor. The dog seemed to think that his apology was done—or perhaps he’d already forgotten that Mick was mad at him—for he gamboled over as frisky as a lamb.
“He’s not even me dog,” Mick muttered.
Lad sat, one back leg sprawled out to the side, tongue hanging from his mouth, and grinned up at him. He completely ignored Harry, his supposed master.
“The dog ’as a wonderful affection for ye,” Harry said brightly.”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.”
“What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.”
“What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.”
“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch.”
“What might change if we simply minded our body's business, and thought about other people's less?”
Source: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul – Poignant Essays on Fat, Black Women and Cultural Expectations
“What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don’t yet have?”
Source: The Resolution for Women, LeatherTouch
“What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?”
Source: The Bonobo Way
“What might happen if we were to accept, claim, embrace our brokenness? I am curious too. I am curious what might happen if I, and we, experimented with living beyond the dichotomy of fixed or failed. If we let ourselves know that our good, complex, messy, and at times painful lives are successes.”
Source: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.”
Source: Four Quarters
“What might have been doesn't matter right now.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.”
“What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?”
Source: The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
“What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.”
“What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.”
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”
“What millions died that Caesar might be great!”
“What Mindy has in common with a lot of women in their mid-30s is that she's obsessed with marriage. It's the entire premise of the 'The Mindy Project'. The pilot is her wanting to get married and her ruining her ex-boyfriend's wedding. For someone who fetishizes marriage so much, we're like, "OK, let's give it to her and let's see if it's as good as she thinks it's going to be." That's been the fun of the beginning part of this season is showing her what the challenges are of being married.”
“What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?”
“What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.”
“What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“What miraculous organs our eyes are!
They allow us to see colours, feel textures, look into the eyes of a loved one, take pleasure in the sense of sight, and perceive things from the heart.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“What misery! and all these girls, broken by fatigue, were silly enough to come here at night and make babies, more flesh to toil and suffer! It would never end while they went on getting themselves filled with starvelings.Ought they rather not stop up their wombs and close their thighs tight against approaching disaster?
But then, perhaps he was only harbouring these dismal thoughts because he resented being alone, when all the others were pairing off to take their pleasure.”
Source: Germinal
“What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”
Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”
Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions
“What misfortune wants is for me to mistreat myself. To look down on myself and destroy myself. I'll never come to resemble this disaster. I won't live as the disaster wants me to live.”
Source: To the Warm Horizon