W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What would it mean to
overcome oppression?
What would it mean for our society to
have that kind of transformation?...
What awareness?
What daring?
To get people to see
that no one is really thriving
if others are laid waste?...
What would it mean?
What would it take?”
“What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.”
Source: The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus
“What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.”
“What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.”
“What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away!”
“What would it take for you to go out with me?”
“What would it take to make you intervene”
“What would it take to make you stay?"
The question was so unexpected Neil had to turn back. "What?"
Andrew laughed quietly at his shock and leaned forward. "Name it and it's yours. It doesn't matter what it is so long as you stand your ground here with us.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“What would [James} do now? Would he think to Aiden was too much trouble for too little reward? Would the sex matter to him so much that he would discout everything else in favour of it? Aiden didn't want to think so, hoped that James would see that love was so much more than that. What was so great about sharing fluids that looked like snot anyway? What did love have to do with that? But he know by now that ninety-nine percent of the population would call that opinion world. The mathematics of the situation were not in his favour.”
Source: Blue Steel Chain
“What would Jesus do" is a good thing but it would be better if we did not leave it so open and asked What did Jesus Do?”
“What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?”
“What would Jimmy Carter do?”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I had so firmly required as prerequisite)? All three of my kids were probably heading for disease (not enough veggies) and jail (not enough discipline).”
Source: All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections
“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant -
“What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“What would life be like if we shifted from trying to change someone’s mind ...to touching everyone’s heart?”
“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.”
Source: The Art of the Theatre
“What would life be without challenges?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.”
“What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.”
“What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.”
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.”
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.”
“What would my voice sound like if I dare to let it exist undisrupted?”
Source: This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
“What would New York be without slavery?”
“What would our debates about fiction look like, I sometimes wonder, if our preferred verbal container for the phenomenon of writing about others was not 'cultural appropriation' but rather 'interpersonal voyeurism' or 'profound-other-fascination' or even 'cross-epidermal reanimation'? Our discussions would still be vibrant, perhaps even still furious—but I’m certain they would not be the same. Aren’t we a little too passive in the face of inherited concepts? We allow them to think for us, and to stand as place markers when we can’t be bothered to think. What she said. But surely the task of a writer is to think for herself! And immediately, within that bumptious exclamation mark, an internal voice notes the telltale whiff of baby boomer triumphalism, of Generation X moral irresponsibility …. I do believe a writer’s task is to think for herself, although this task, to me, signifies not a fixed state but a continual process: thinking things afresh, each time, in each new situation. This requires not a little mental flexibility. No piety of the culture—whether it be 'I think therefore I am,' 'To be or not to be,' 'You do you,' or 'I contain multitudes'—should or ever can be entirely fixed in place or protected from the currents of history. There is always the potential for radical change.”
“What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”
Source: The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
“What would our lives be like if our days were studded by tiny, completely unproductive, silly, nonstrategic, wild and beautiful five-minute breaks, reminders that our days are for loving and learning and laughing, not for pushing and planning, reminders that it's all about the heart, not the hustle?”
“What would our lives be like if we could all be happy no matter what?”
Source: Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
“What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?”
“What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?”
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?”
“What would people think?'
Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.
'Oh,' said Grandpa.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956
“What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?”
Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth
“What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.”
“What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?”
“What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.”
“What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”
Source: The Second Sex
“What would Ramón look like shirtless? His body had been so firm against hers... Would his abs be chiseled into a six-pack? His chest warm and kissed golden-brown from our ancestors? She bet he had a sexy happy trail that led down to his---”
Source: Ramón and Julieta
“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'”
“What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?”
“What would seem like an innocuous meat tenderizer turned out to be the biggest fear of every PA and producer - everyone on set. You know, it's dangerous, because you're running around and you're taking close swings at people with something that really could kill them. It's not like you have a gun with no bullets that you're doing cinematically. You actually have a weapon that you're swinging at people.”
“What would shadows know about each other?”
“What would she do? What could she do? Her heart was in Armenia. But, then again, so was her heartache.”
Source: Destiny of Dreams: Time Is Dear
“What would she eat? Meat? Vegan? Vegetarian? Pescatarian? More important, would her taste buds be open to spices? I call this research ocular reconnaissance. The woman meanders toward one of the butchers and points to a goliath-sized leg of lamb---definitely a carnivore. I wonder how she'd prepare her meal---perhaps with slices of garlic stuffed into the meatiest parts of the top, slow roasted with rosemary, with potatoes on the side, the juices, the herbs, infusing into everything. Served with a mint sauce? Or is she the type who colors outside the lines and does something less traditional?”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.”
Source: Out of Time