W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if”
“What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.”
“What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.”
“What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.”
“What unites computer and a person is logic.”
Source: Questology
“What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.”
“What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.”
“What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.”
“What unites us is our despair. Do other people wish to know that someone else walked this earth with a similar batch of questions and frustration? Am I alone trussed with a long suppressed scream lodged within my breast shouting out in the vacant darkness of night, “Who am I, where am I, and where shall I go with this dreaded case of hopelessness, self-doubt, and self-loathing that is weighing me down, making me crazy, and blindsiding any chance to discover personal happiness?” On many occasions, I felt like surrendering to life, no longer willing to endure the physical aches and devastating emotional blows that human life requires. Lost, exiled, and living in alienation from the entire world I searched for a reentry port to a meaningful life. I must work; honest toil is good for the body, mind, and spiritual health of human beings. I shall go to the grave utterly spent from living an authentic life of giving the better part of oneself to the world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“What unites us is our understanding that the essence of civilization is this: The strong have a duty to protect the weak.”
“What unites us universally is our emotions, our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.”
Source: In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
“What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.”
“What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!”
Source: Reminiscences
“What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.”
“What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!”
Source: The Eleven Comedies
“What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.”
“What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.”
Source: Works of Richard Sibbes
“What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.”
“what up”
“What up?"
"Most likely not your IQ.”
Source: Be with Me
“What up you guys, I'm back!”
Source: Joyride Vol. 2
“What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.”
“What urge will save us now that sex won't?”
Source: Jenny Holzer: xenon
“What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“What use are socks? They only produce holes.”
“What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel them nor be called by them. Grief is for the survivors, and I think that, rather than living my life in pain, I would
live it in laughter and love. To the fullest.”
Source: Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
“What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”
Source: 20,000 leagues under the sea
“What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.”
Source: Meditations
“What use have I for gold? The earth is my floor, the heavens my roof. The Merry Men my company. What more do I need what gold would buy?”
Source: Hood
“What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?”
“What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?”
“What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?”
Source: Black Sun
“What use is hatred, except as a step toward love?”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.”
“What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.”
“What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?”
“What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?”
“What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?”
“What use is material science as a philosophy or world view if it cannot explain our intelligence and our consciousness?”
Source: For the Time Being: Essays
“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.”
“What use is recycling when all that we do is return it to the ocean from whence it came?”
“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”
“What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.”
“What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?”
Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn
“What use legs if not to take you down the road? What use eyes if not to see what lay beyond the horizon? What use hands if not to open doors?”
“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan
“What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?”
“What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?”
Source: Memories With Maya
“What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?”
Source: Green Mars