W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What would have to be true for the option under consideration to work out fantastically?”
Source: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”
Source: Philosophical Essays
“What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)”
Source: Born of Fire
“What would his fear smell like if he learned she'd used him, slept with him, to keep herself at bay? To settle that writhing darkness that had simmered inside her from the moment she'd emerged from the Cauldron? Sex, music, and drink, she'd learned this past year- all of it helped. Not entirely, but it kept the power from boiling over. Even if she could still feel it streaming through her blood, coiled tight around her bones.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.”
“What would I do if I wasn't afraid?”
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“What would I do in such a place? Die, I expect.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?”
“What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?”
“What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.”
Source: Magic Burns
“What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.”
Source: The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)
“What would I do without you? You're never going to find out.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.”
“What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of man's nature: his lust, his boundless aggression, his desire to tame all that he touches--the beasts of the field, the earth, women. For a man cannot see anything in the world without wishing to wear it like a trophy on his back, to call himself master over it. To her, this is what it means to be a man.”
Source: Joan
“What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.”
“What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.”
“What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?”
Source: Coyote's Mate
“What would I have done without books?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like to think that I would have kept it simple and said, “I love you,” then just held his hand in silence, letting that thought linger in the space of the time we had left together.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“What would I like? Some very silly comedy where I don't have to think about anything, but it could be a lot of fun. And if it's not that, then I'll want to be involved in something where it's like, you're really dredged up to the neck in emotion, where it's as exciting as the premise of Battlestar.”
“What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?”
“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.”
“What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.”
“What would I say about "Heaven Without a Gun"? For me, to have this man, and our friendship [ with Andy Kim] grew really slowly and very consistently throughout the years before we decided to get into a studio together, I wasn't sure if he wanted to do songs that were pre-written or what. We didn't know what we were getting into.”
“What would I wish for the one who is mine? I would wish him a good, knowledgeable sense, a resilient gut, and the capability for survival. Wrong... it is not enough just to survive... To the one who is mine, I would also wish faith that will renew and heal him from the pains of existence.”
Source: AZ
“What would Integrity have me do?”
“What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?”
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
Source: The Glass Palace: A Novel
“What would it be like if we stayed the same together, the only two people in the world who didn't change? Never had to grow up and go away?”
Source: March & Feather
“What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.”
“What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?”
“What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking to? To let the ugly emotions you harbored, your anger and dissatisfaction and irritation, seep into your words without censoring them.”
Source: When We Were Infinite
“What would it be like to be caught in the emotional crosshairs of a man like Luke Almeida? To belong to him, body and soul? The prospect warmed her some. Scared her more. With Luke, she suspected there would be no half measures.”
Source: Flirting with Fire
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”
Source: Book of Shadows: Book One
“What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.”
“What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing.”
“What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one’s own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?”
Source: Price of the Child
“What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.”
“What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?”
“What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.”
“What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?”
“What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity.”
Source: Bright Air Black
“What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?”
“What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him?”
Source: Reunion at Cardwell Ranch
“What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?”
“What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?”
Source: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
“What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?”
“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.”
“What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other's despair into hope?--
You yourself must change it.”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life