W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'”
“What Mufy means is that he is in possession of rather capacious breasts for a male of the human species”
Source: Second Chances — I Re-wrote My Life and Improved It! So Can You!
“What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.”
“What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“What music do you like?” he asked between calls.
“Cheery, chirpy pop.”
Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. “You owe me.”
“Come on”—she turned in her seat to face him once more—“it’s not that bad.”
“I’m sorry? I can’t hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums.”
Source: Secrets at Midnight
“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”
Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
“What musicals need is a new me.”
“What must always be remembered is that myth is a double system; there occurs in it a sort of ubiquity: its point of departure is constituted by the arrival of a meaning. […] the signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness. This alternation is, so to speak, gathered up in the concept, which uses it like an ambiguous signifier, at once intellective and imaginary, arbitrary and natural.”
Source: Mythologies
“What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.”
“What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What must be shall be.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet ... With alterations, and an additional scene: by D. Garrick, etc
“What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.”
“What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!”
“What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!”
“What must come to you, for you, always finds its way to you...”
“What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?”
“What must I do now?”
Mrs. Muller considered her silently for a while. “You are still a child. You must go where you are told and do as you are told. But it won’t always be so. Soon you will be in charge of yourself. Until that time: Be aware. Listen. Look. Touch. Smell. And remember. But for now, you must go home.”
Source: Strange Neighbours
“What must I do to be saved? Believe in the Saviour, Jesus Christ.”
“What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.”
“What must it be like? Billy thought. What must it be like to be happy?”
Source: Mister Creecher
“What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?”
“What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.”
“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control the exchange of ideas, the evolution of society? She had never really been all that interested in traditional success or power, but for a moment she saw the appeal of it, of an empire ruled only by women, and then the appeal of wielding might that could bring it all down, on a whim. An entire ruined kingdom as manifestation of one woman’s rage.”
Source: Nightbitch
“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?”
Source: The Hunger Games
“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”
Source: The Hunger Games
“What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence.”
Source: Lessons
“What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.”
“What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.”
“What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?”
Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel
“What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.”
“What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.”
Source: The Storyteller
“What mutates viruses? A changing environment. In particular, a changed radiation environment. Radiation causes mutations, this is a proven fact. What is the favorite host for a virus? A human with a weakened immune system. What weakens a human immune system? A changing environment. We have a virus that keeps on mutating and evading vaccines and it is targeting those with weakened immune systems. That is exactly how nature works. The predator picks off the weak, leaving the strong to produce the next generation.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“What my aunt wanted to try was to create the Night Library. Through all of her studies of art, she'd discovered the importance of preserving this thing known as the past.
"You know, it's presumptuous to think that the present is more advanced than the past," she said. "Putting aside industry, science, and chemistry, there hasn't been any progress in the arts, or literature."
She told me this while she stood in front of the statue David in the Accademia Gallery.
"Probably we can't produce magnificent things like this nowadays. Apart from reproductions and such."
"Hmm."
"Which is why I'd like to take the past and seal it in.”
Source: Dinner at the Night Library
“What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home. But I have taken the position that we have a lot of problems here in our country. And that one of the things that we do - charity is about giving your own money. Charity isn't giving someone else's money.”
“What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.”
“What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others”
“What my dad did was wrong, awful, inexcusable, but maybe there's still hope for him. Maybe if he can get the help he needs, they'll be able to resurrect the man who taught me about Bach's toccata and slept in the chair in my room when I was afraid of the dark.
And if there's still hope for my dad, there has to still be hope for me. Mabe it's true that he and I have the same blag slug inside of us, but it's up to me to conquer it. I owe that to my dad. I owe that to myself.
[....]
I make a promise to myself: /I will be stronger than my sadness./
I will do my best to become the girl from Roman's drawing. The girl with the bright eyes. The girl with hope.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.”
“What my day is like depends on where I am.”
“What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?”
“What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.”
“What my eyes see may differ from what I see.”
“What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.”
“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”
“What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”
“What my home life is like now is great.”
“What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.”