W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?”
“What was
the remembered dream
your life became?
What was
the forgotten dream
your life never became?”
“what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?”
Source: From fear set free
“What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.”
“What was the secret of this joy? The secret is found in another word that is often repeated in Philippians: It is the word mind. Paul uses mind ten times, and also uses the word think five times. Add the time he uses remember and you have a total of sixteen references to the mind. In other words, the secret of Christian joy is found in the way the believer thinks—his attitudes. After all, outlook determines outcome (p. 18).”
Source: Be Joyful (Philippians): Even When Things Go Wrong, You Can Have Joy
“What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.”
Source: Mostly Harmless
“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“What was the use of knowing? If the thing was true, it was terrible.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
“What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?”
Source: The Master Christian
“What was the wager?”
“That death would win over love.”
“Whom did you make the bet with?”
“Love herself. Be glad you didn’t tangle with her, my dear. She’s merciless. An utter savage.”
“More so than you?” asked Belle bitterly.
The countess tilted her head. She lifted the glass heart the Beast had given Belle, smiled, and let it drop again.
“You understand so little,child,” she said. “To love, to truly love another—that is not for the faint of heart. Why, I’ve seen a husband mop the brow of his plague-ridden wife, heedless of his own safety. I’ve seen a murderer’s mother weep at the gallows, and a starving boy give his last crust of bread to his sister. Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. Me, Belle. A woman who strolls through battlefields and sick houses. Who takes tea with executioners.”
Source: Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
“What was the worst thing [making Twiligh]? Playing the part where you can't get hurt and you can't die because there's no framework. There are too many possibilities if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.”
“What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.”
Source: Ghost Story
“What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not?”
Source: Vault of Dreams
“What was there in me to suggest I might triumph? I had neither the conqueror's blind force nor the madman's sure vision. I was lucid and sad, like a cold day.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
“What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.”
“What was this future world where people aged so slowly? Were they protected in cocoons of silk? "What say ye? Are there no warriors?"
"There are soldiers who join the army - and they learn combat, but most of the fighting is done..." She glanced aside.
"Pardon?"
"You wouldn't believe me."
He snorted. "The fighting is done by banshees and fairies?
She threw back her head with a belly laugh. "Now that would be a good name for a video game.”
Source: In the Kingdom's Name
“What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint pattern designed long before; it seemed that one was trying to remember a gigantic shock that had left an impression upon one’s body which one could not forget, but which had been almost forgotten by the conscious mind, creating in one a state of external anxiety.”
Source: The Man Who Lived Underground
“What was this? Was I jealous? Can you be jealous with of someone's relationship with a man you hate?”
Source: Why
“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun”
Source: Reckless
“what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?”
Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.”
Source: Works
“What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.”
“What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.”
Source: The Green Knight
“What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!”
“What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.”
“What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.”
“What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.”
Source: What I Loved
“What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“What was wafting in the smoke of burning tires?
where had time
caught in the traffic jam
not reaching?”
“What was Watergate? A little bugging!”
“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.”
“What was worse, being crazy or being evil?”
Source: All the Birds in the Sky
“What was worse, Luzia wondered, to be loved so hungrily that only a king could free you? Or to know the man who wanted you most had contemplated dooming you for an eternity?”
Source: The Familiar
“What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.”
Source: Seduce the Darkness
“What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.”
“What was wrong with her? Why did things like this keep happening to her? Love wasn't supposed to hurt, yet it felt like all she knew when it came to love was pain. Every time she opened her heart, she just got burned. Or, in this case, frozen. And she was getting sick and tired of it.”
Source: Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart
“What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“What was wrong with people? Ashna didn't understand this obsession with other people's lives. Jonah pulled up Twitter and Instagram on his tablet and waved it about, parroting all the hashtags she and Rico now were: #knifegate #churrosolimp, and the one that made Jonah the giddiest: #Ashico, which when said out loud sounded far too much like the Hindi word ashiquo which, disastrously enough, meant "lovers.”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion
“What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.”
Source: America's Daughter
“What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!”
“What was your college major?"
"Criminal justice." She slid a hand down into the back of his pants and gripped a naked butt cheek. "I wanted to be an attorney. Do something for the greater good."
He hissed in a breath as she slid that hand forward. "And now?"
She smiled against his warm mouth. "I just want to be bad."
He could definitely help with that.”
Source: Primal Force
“What was your first job title?
Waiter. It was at a showy opera festival in a barn in Oxfordshire. I did it for a whole summer and people would be so extraordinarily rude that it made me decide that I would never be rude in my life, specifically to people who were kind enough to serve things.”
“What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.”
“What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?”
“What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.”
“What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance”