W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What worth was a man who could not be haunted?”
Source: In the Flesh
“What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”
Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”
“What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?”
“What would a final exam look like in a course organized around a complex problem that must be considered in the light of several disciplines? Students would be asked to write an extended take-home essay about "what it means to be an American."-- and they would know from the first day of class that this was the final exam question.
The second part of the final exam would require students to present and defend their papers in a public exhibition where parents would observe and ask questions. The Students’ oral and written work would be assessed on their ability to display a range of evidence to make their points. They would have to meet a performance standard to get a Merit Badge in American Studies.” -- this is the essence of the digital portfolio. (page 139)”
Source: Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
“What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth”
“What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and I wish I had more to help to build up the Kingdom of God.' Or if he came and said 'I want your wife?' 'O Yes,' he would say, 'here she is, there are plenty more.' ... Did the Prophet Joseph want every man's wife he asked for? He did not... If such a man of God should come to me and say, 'I want your gold and silver, or your wives,' I should say, 'Here they are, I wish I had more to give you, take all I have got.'”
“What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.”
“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?”
Source: I Am Legend
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
Source: The Immoralist
“What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“What would a person possibly DO outside alone? It was hard enough to be INSIDE alone. Outside would be impossible.”
Source: Mother Land
“What would a pie chart of your malicious to non-malicious thoughts look like? How big a piece of the pie is non-malicious?”
Source: Foolish Hearts
“What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.”
“What would a respectful political cartoon look like?”
“What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?”
“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?”
“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?”
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
“What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.”
“What would art speak of, in fact? If it were to conform to what the majority of our society asks of it, art would be merely entertaining, without substance. If artists were to blindly reject society, and choose to isolate themselves in their dreams, they would express nothing but negativity. We would thus have only the works of entertainers or experts in the theory of form, which, in both cases, would result in art being cut off from the reality of life.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“What would be a perfect day for me? I'd like to fly the Millennium Falcon to a small café outside of Vienna, and there's a PlayStation 3 or an XBox set up there. The family is there, and there would be brand new Star Wars Lego sets so my seven-year-old and four-year-old would be the happiest people on earth. My wife could get a massage and manicure/pedicure. Oh, and pork is being fed to us all day.”
“What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.”
“What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.”
“What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?”
“What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.”
“What would be different in your world if you practice letting go of those things that no longer serve?”
“What would be enough? He had an answer he wanted to hear, but I withheld it. Games and more games. We would always be dancing with each other, the Goblin King and I.”
Source: Wintersong
“What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.”
“What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.”
“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”
“What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.”
“What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.”
“What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million.”
“What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?”
“What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?”
“What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?”
“What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?”
Source: Programs of the Brain
“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?”
“What would be the worst that could happen to me? Would they hang me?”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“What would be wicked would be to say, 'I will not give this person a job because he belongs to this category of people, and there's some kind of statistical tendency for this category of person to be different from that category...' Treat them as individuals! Look at the qualifications of this individual, and forget about the group, race, whatever you want to call it, to which he belongs.”
“What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.”
“What would be your first thought if you woke up naked, next to me in bed?”
“Huh … it’s kind of warm considering hell has just frozen over”
Source: Bet Me
“What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?”
“What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?”
Source: Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects
“What would become of me?"
Those shoulders - the ones she drew so many times, the ones she conjured into being - give only a dismissive shrug.
"You will be nothing, my dear," he says simply. "But it is a kinder nothing than this. Surrender, and I will set you free."
If some part of her wavered, if some small part wanted to give in, it did not last beyond a moment. There is a defiance in being a dreamer.
"I decline," she growls.
The shadow scowls, those green eyes darkening like cloth soaked wet.
HIs hands fall away.
"You will give in," he says. "Soon enough."
He does not step back, does not turn to go. He is simply gone. Swallowed by the dark.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?”