W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What would become of the world if we were human?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”
Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives
“What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?”
“What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?”
“What would Chess be without silly mistakes?”
“What would Christ do if he were in my situation?”
“What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair”
“What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”
“What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.”
“What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“What would friendship entail?
Well, on Wednesdays, we sacrifice a cat to Satan”
Source: The Gilded Wolves
“What would God have me do with my life?”
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?”
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
“What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?”
“What would happen if for one day; wars stopped; animosity took a holiday; people helped each other and most importantly, people smiled?
I think the people of the world would start to change mankind for the better, don't you?”
“What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.”
Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
“What would happen if people no longer strived to obtain what other thought as ideal, if they controlled their bias impulses, limited their consumption, simplified their life, extracted all drama and believed in themselves and where honest with embodying their values and the golden rule?.”
“What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection? My guess is that people would feel less alone and isolated. People would be willing to share more, and as a result, society would feel more connected to each other and their experiences.”
“What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.”
“What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.”
“What would happen if the most unexceptional events — not just the remarkable ones — received our most careful attention?”
Source: Not Much: Writings of Wonder in the Ordinary
“What would happen if they found out I was a killer in a past life? Would they still act friendly towards me?”
Source: Sensiti
“What would happen if we began having real, meaningful conversations with each other where we allow ourselves to be vulnerable?
We have to let go of the thought of having to be perfect for the external world when we are battling with ourselves internally.”
Source: The Mountains We Climb
“What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?”
Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
“What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.”
“What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?”
“What would happen if we looked at ourselves like the nun looked at that tree? What would happen if we treasured our imperfections in the same way that the priest treasured the tree’s gnarled branches? I think our lives would be better as a result. More than that, I think it’s incumbent on us to see the perfection of our imperfect souls.”
“What would happen if we spoke the truth?”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“What would happen if we took the time each day to quietly celebrate our accomplishments and focus on the positive?”
Source: Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You
“What would happen if we wake up everyday and just say Spirit lead me. I'm here use me. It's all for God's glory.”
“What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something
you’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.”
“What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?”
Source: Ultraviolet
“What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.”
Source: Chindi
“What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue...
And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.”
“What would happen to his self in the moment of complete metamorphosis? When Lewis, the actor, became a great white shark, the character, permanently? Was Lewis's disease an art form?”
Source: Shark Heart
“What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"”
“What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?
Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.
And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?”
Source: The Discourses
“What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'”
“What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?”
Source: Herland and Related Writings
“What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.”
“WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.”
“What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to Su-En (usually contracted to Sin), the Moon God of the Sabians. After telling us that there were "powerful images in this temple," the Greek Philosopher Libanius (AD 314-394), describes the tower, noting that "from its top one could overlook the entire plain of Harran."
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A team from the Chicago Oriental Institute was about to start a major dig around the ruins of the Grand Mosque in 1986, but it seems that the Turkish authorities insisted on such restrictive practices that the project had to be abandoned. Current excavations by Harran University and the Sanliurfa Museum Directorate show little interest in recovery of substantive remains from the city's pre-Islamic period.”
Source: Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization