W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”
“What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.”
“What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.”
“What will we do when we stop living our adult children's lives for them?
We will start living our own.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?”
“What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. It was said of Him that He “went about doing good.” As we do likewise, the Christmas spirit will be ours.”
“What will you choose? A life of solitude because you chose honesty or a normal life where lying is okay to get your stuff done.”
“What will you create that will make the world more awesome?”
“What will you do if I kiss you right now?"
"I'll kiss you back."
"In what way? Sweet, soft, and slow like a first kiss? Or passionately and rude until I make you breathless?"
"Just do it on your own style."
"Bad then. I've never kissed any woman before.”
Source: On(c)e
“What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.”
“What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”
“What will you do, my lady?' Moonlight kissed the apple of his cheekbone as he tilted his head once more. 'You have no shadowstone dagger to threaten me with.'
'I don't need a dagger,' I said, my voice thready. 'And I'm not a lady.'
His head straightened. 'No, I imagine not, considering you're nude in a lake with an unfamiliar man, whose lip you bit upon meeting, and have seen the bare backs of many sailors. I was only being polite.'
My lip curled at the presumed insult. I knew I should let it go. Keep my mouth shut, but I didn't. I hadn't in three years, and my inability to do so had grown and festered into an incurable disease. The kind that provoked further, dangerous recklessness. 'What I am is a Princess who is nude in a lake with an unfamiliar man and has seen the bare backs of men,' I told him, speaking the forbidden. 'And you, with each passing moment, are getting closer to no longer having the ability to see anyone's unmentionable places ever again.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“What will you do now?”
“What will you do now?’
‘Whatever I can. As useless as that might be.”
“What will you do now with the gift of your left life?”
Source: The Bees
“What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.”
“What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?”
“What will you do to me, my little sparrow? Beat your hands against my chest? Scratch me up? Shout at me in that sweet, trembling voice? If that’s the case, you tempt me to villainy, simply by making me crave the punishment.”
Source: Raise the Blood
“What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.”
“What will you do, what will you be since now you left those crazy thoughts behind you can finally be free!”
“What will you do,
when it is your turn in the field with the god?”
Source: Averno
“What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426
“What will you do with the time you have left?”
“What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?”
“What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?”
“What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.”
Source: Living in the light of eternity
“What will you gain by knowing facts? —I would rather know the principles than facts. Because facts are changeable like the wind and can’t be relied upon!”
Source: What They Asked Me: The Fear of Living and Dying Young
“What will you let go of? What can you not afford to lose?”
Source: Spellbook of the Lost and Found
“What will you name her?" she asked.
"I was thinking 'Susannah.'"
That had certainly been quick out of his mouth. His eyes glinted devilishly.
Susannah tipped her head to the side, pretending to mull this. "Perfect," she pronounced finally. "It's the perfect name for such a beautiful creature."
And then she spun prettily, casting a saucy look at him through her lashes over her shoulder, and headed up the path for home.
And as she walked, she cherished the last expression she'd seen on his face. It hadn't been amusement, for a change. Or indifference. Or impatience.
It had been something else entirely.
And a strange, sweet hope bucked inside her.”
Source: Beauty and the Spy
“What will you say when the Grim Reaper suddenly appears and asks, ‘What do you have to show for your life?’
In a world of many time-consuming pursuits, most utterly inane and many major drags on our creative potential, if your answer is ‘Not much,’ it’s at least worth considering that you’ve spent your time wisely.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.”
Source: The Gone-Away World
“What will you? When one is unique, one knows it! And others share that opinion -- even, if I mistake not, Miss Mary Marvell.”
“What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.”
“What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.”
“What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?"
"I'll carry your suitcase," he said.”
Source: Rough Rider
“What will your heart do when it is clogged up by microplastic?
STOP.”
“What will your help cost me?”
“Did I say I would help you?” His eyes went to the cream ribbons trailing up from her shoes to wrap around her ankles until they disappeared under the hem of her eyelet dress. It was one of her mother’s old gowns, covered in a stitched pattern of pale purple thistles, tiny yellow flowers, and little foxes.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“What wills to grow, will grow. What wills to flow, will flow.”
Source: Faith
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
“What wine goes with Captain Crunch?”
“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
“What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.”
“What winter taught me. Don’t mourn for autumn, or long for spring, nor wait for summer. For nothing else is of value except YOU enjoying this very moment.”
“What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.”
Source: Areopagitica and Other Prose Works
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
Source: Emile: Or, On Education
“What wisdom can you know than stop doing wrong?”
“What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“What with my father being so arrogant and selfish, maybe I shouldn't have tried so hard to be a good son.”
Source: The Travelling Cat Chronicles