W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What 'my lord' said, and what 'my lord' did, how useful he was in parliament, and how indispensable at Oxford, formed the daily burden of her talk. All this I bore very well: for I was too good-natured to laugh in any body's face, and I could make an ample allowance for the garrulity of an old servant.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.”
Source: Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota
“What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her”
“What my parents didn’t transform they sold “as is”: those two little words that carry so many scars, and heart.
The phrase itself felt like me, like our life. It felt like enough.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society says people should be focusing on - it's something spiritual that only certain people can grasp and accept. And that's how I act and move in the world today.”
“What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint-- unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.”
Source: Millicent Min, Girl Genius
“What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“What?" my partner asked suddenly.
I jumped, guilty at having been caught staring. But, hell, I thought, might as well ask. "Are you two--you know?" I made a vaguely obscene gesture with my fingers.
He stopped walking so fast I was shocked he didn't get whiplash. "What?"
I waved toward the building. "You and Shandi."
Instead of answering, he threw his head back and brayed like the jackass he was.”
Source: Cursed Moon
“What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.”
“What my portraits are made of?
10% reality, 90% my philosophy.”
“What my portraits are made of?
10% showing the reality, 90% showing my philosophy.”
“What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.”
“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say”
Source: The Life and Death of King Richard II
“What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.”
“What my wife desires--and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention--is bookcases. And books, of course, to fill them. Not more decorations or useless items. She wants books.”
Source: My Lady Jane
“What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.”
“What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.”
Source: Merrick
“What mystery hides behind these deep, watchful eyes?”
Source: The Snowflake He Didn't Paint
“What mystery novels need are – some might call me old-fashioned – a great detective, a mansion, a shady cast of residents, bloody murders, impossible crimes and never-before-seen tricks played by the murderer. Call it my castle in the sky, but I’m happy as long as I can enjoy such a world. But always in an intellectual manner.”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes who make sacrifices to some pagan god. People want their governments to keep secrets from them. They want the hand of law to be brutal. They are so terrified by their own power that they will vote to have it taken out of their hands. Look at America. Look at the sharia states. Freedom is a dead philosophy, Alif. The world is returning to its natural state, to the rule of the weak by the strong. Young as you are, it's you who are out of touch, not me.”
Source: Alif the Unseen
“What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."”
“What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.”
“What NATO troops are doing in Afghanistan is to train, assist and advise Afghans, but they are actually doing the fighting. They are actually taking the responsibility for the security in their own country. And that is a great achievement, compared to what we saw just a few years ago, when NATO troops had to conduct the combat operations fighting the Taliban.”
“What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.”
“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.””
“What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.”
Source: The Oeconomy of Love: A Poetical Essay
“What nature creates has eternity in it.”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.”
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”
“What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?”
“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”
“What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.”
“What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.”
Source: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”
“What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?”
Source: Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc
“What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?”
“What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.”
Source: Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)
“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”
Source: On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature
“What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands."
"Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly sensiblities. But I did not shy away from the word. How could I when it was the reality my sister lived with? " Because rape is about power; it is never about desire or love," he answered quietly. "His majesty is a powerhungry beast with a voracious hunger for more, and what better way to display that he reigns supreme than by taking what is precious to his own people?”
Source: A Crane Among Wolves
“What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.
If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.
And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy.
The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;
The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.”
“What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
“What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice.
A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.”
“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?”
Source: Stardust
“What needed to change was changed, just as old things were destroyed – not by time but by force of human will.”
Source: Coventry: Essays
“What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.”
Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories