W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!”
“What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.”
“What often happens with these Islamist regimes, there are differing philosophies in terms of how fast to go in getting to where everybody wants to end up, which is Sharia. That is the ultimate objective for all of these places. But they have different strategies on the speed with which they’re going to get there, and the strategies involve foreign policy.”
“What often makes matching markets especially challenging is that everyone has to puzzle through not only their own desires but also those of everyone else and how all those other market participants might act to achieve their preferences.”
“What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.”
Source: Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
“What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.”
“What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.”
“What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.”
“What?! Oh, Ellen, so the rumors are true! She’s married to Everett Shepherd! Why, I could wring his scrawny neck! I knew he was trouble. All men are! That cheating, no-good liar, cad, and—”
“Please, Frances, I appreciate your taking up for me, but cursing him won’t help me. I’ve had a lot of time to ponder it, and I don’t think he’s worthy of that much censure. You see, he had been engaged to Leona Bingham for years, and it might have gone a little stale. He was attracted to me at first, but he stuck by Leona, as he ought to do. Men get tempted, but what really matters is what they do in the end.”
Frances looked up at her, eyes and brows narrowed into a legible V. “Yep, you’re hurt. Girls like you, when they get hurt, they always defend the fella.”
Source: Suit and Suitability
“What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.”
“What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed
“What on Earth are we?’
‘We’re not on Earth. And we’re not quite human.”
“What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.”
“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”
Source: Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“What on earth did we do wrong? What harm did we inflict? What did we do to you? Who are you to judge us?
Who gave you the right? Are you the representatives of mankind, or what? Who appointed you? Was it God? Yourselves? You don't care if someone loves to go bowling or shooting! You don't care if someone wants to be a doctor or a flight attendant! So why can't we love someone of the same gender? What makes you say that the way we love is wrong? Because we're not "normal"? Because we don't abide by the provisions of God? The laws of nature?
Well, fuck you. What a load of bullshit. You want to create a land for God? Good. Then let's bring back the regulations on sex positions first! Don't use condoms, and only fuck in the missionary position, damn it! Since sex should only be for childbirth, and any other pleasure is against the will of God, am I right? Come to think of it, you guys are fucking disgusting. I mean, I know you all fuck doggy-style and blow each other! So I guess you're all going to hell as well! The same goes for singles who don't copulate at all! If the union of man and woman is what is "normal", singles are the most abnormal of all! You're all going to hell, too! On, and let's just kill all the ugly people, fat people, and poor people while we're at it. Then it'll be heaven on earth, with no abnormal beings! Where the normal are free to kill the abnormal! If you ask me, you uneducated, narrow-minded scumbags are the ones that degrade human nobility! You're fucking revolting! Ignorant morons! Do you feel good? Or pissed off? Mad?
Then come at me! Instead of being fucking cowards, bashing someone that's all tied up. Won't it be more fun to beat up a person of color? Kill me before I infect your brains and turn all of you into homosexuals! Kill me first! Stupid scumbags!”
Source: Dark Heaven
“What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!”
“What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?”
“What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.”
Source: Inkheart
“What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.”
“What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.”
Source: Collected fiction
“What on earth will appetize a man to die for something bitter if there are no benefits? Else people will curse his corpse for dying foolishly when the world abounds with sweet things to die for.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”
“What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.”
Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“What once bound him Will make him flee Place of power-joining of five Night Spirit Blood Humanity Earth Joined not to conquer, Instead to overcome Night leads to Spirit Blood binds Humanity And Earth completes.”
Source: Hunted: Number 5 in series
“what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.”
“What once made you safe now drives you insane.”
“What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.”
“What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.”
“What once was and was good ought not to be cast aside.”
Source: Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold
“What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.”
“What once was sunlight becomes shaded, and my shadow takes over—and smothers me in despair.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“What once were two, are one”
“What once were vices are manners now.”
“What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.”
“What one beholds in another is never merely observed—it is revealed from within. For every vision one casts is a silent confession of the soul that casts it.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“What one can be, one must be!”
“What one cannot, another can.”
“What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.”
“What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.”
“What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
[What one day gives, another takes away from us.]”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.”
“What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.”
“What one does daily should be staircasing towards the overall accomplishment of the vision and mission of the organization.”
“What one does easily, one does well.”
Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)
“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.”
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.”