W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What would she have done if she’d been in that situation? Mrs. Richardson would ask herself this question over and over, before Michael’s call and for weeks—and months—after. Each time, faced with this impossible choice, she came to the same conclusion. I would never have let myself get into that situation, she told herself. I would have made better choices along the way.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“What would stop friendship from overreaching like runaway vines, twisting and turning and sliding beyond the fences set in place?”
Source: Ensnared
“What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.”
“What would that have felt like, to have a boy do something like that for me? In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe. But this is new. Or old. Old and new, because it's the first time I'm hearing it.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed? It is all those differences, however minuscule, that make up my existence.”
Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“What would the doctors do if there were no patients? What would politicians do if there were no social problems? What would humanitarians do if there were no inhumanity? The opposite sides that seem to be fighting each other actually depend on each other, define each other, thrive with each other.”
“What would the fearsome Lou Reed insist on? Boys? Girls? Drugs? No, kielbasa.”
Source: Lou Reed: A Life
“What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“What would the Living One have me do?”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy? No, we taught her that ourselves. Journalism? No. Magazining? No, that is our own specialty. Government? No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy, Adultery the system is too variegated for our climate. Religion? No, not variegated enough for our climate. Morals? No, we cannot rob the poor to enrich ourselves.”
Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
“What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!”
“What would the Space serve humanity if our home is shaking in its foundation, built and maintained throughout history
by ancestors adamant to segregate, discriminate, and divide?
For what future do all these new technologies mean when we keep challenging the Oneness of our own human race?”
Source: Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth
“What would the world be like if men never ruled again?”
Source: Bright Air Black
“What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.”
“What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?”
Source: Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality
“What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?”
“What would the world be like without men and music?”
Source: Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems
“What would the world be without him, and those like him?”
Source: The Sacred Band
“What would the world be...without money hung around our necks, hung around our very souls?”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“What would the world be without music?
Lonely.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”
Source: The Godfather
“What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?”
“What would the world look like if you and I—as the first generations of resource-rich, informed, penicillin-protected, and free mothers
to have ever walked the planet—released ourselves from the burden of
stories told for us and began to see ourselves for the incredibly powerful, important, worthy, and inherently beautiful beings we really are? I believe the outcome would change the course of history.”
Source: Motherwhelmed
“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
Source: The Immoralist
“What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry?”
Source: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
“What would they talk about? Hi, my name's Vane and I howl at the moon late at night in the form of a wolf. I sleep with your daughter and don't think I could live without her. Mind if I have a beer? Oh and while we're at it, let me introduce my brothers. This one here is a deadly wolf known to kill for nothing more than looking at him cross-eyed, and the other one is comatose because some vampires sucked the life out of him after we'd both been sentenced to death by our jealous father. Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon.”
Source: Night Play
“What would they think if they knew that their champion - the Hero of Ages, their savior - doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn’t be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder - just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“What would they think if they knew the truth? There were demons out there, roaming the streets, plotting madness and death, and sowing chaos wherever they went. And Angels too, some proud and determined in the righteousness of their cause, others corrupted by hate and jealousy, and each side at war with the other.”
Source: The Girl in the Storm
“What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?”
“What would this country be without this great land of ours.”
“What would this have been, if it had more power to give?"
"This may come as a surprise to you," he replied dryly, "But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct."
"Which means you don't know."
"Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know." - Kaylin & Tiamaris”
Source: Cast in Silence
“What would Tyler Durden do?”
“What would've happened if Dad had told Abi or me to 'settle down with a good boy'?"
I scoff. "Well, first off, Abi would've told him to fuck off, and you would've probably said you're too young. And then I would've killed him."
She laughs. "But when he told you to, you marched right out there and got yourself a bride. Fucking overachiever.”
Source: My Big Fat Fake Wedding
“What would Walt Whitman do?”
Source: City on Fire
“What would we do
if there were no winter?
This tepid season
is making me wonder ...
Is there still enough winter left
to wonder?
Enough to recover?
Enough to prepare?
Enough to rekindle our faith
in the imperative and beauty
of the cycles of our years?”
“What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.”
“What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.”
Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?”
“What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?”
“What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?”
“What would we value in a future husband way down the road? What qualities would we want in a father to our future children? Would cute looks and a hot body be our number one priority? Or would we long for something more substantial?”
Source: Love Defined: Embracing God's Vision for Lasting Love and Satisfying Relationships
“What would you add to the back of a Ford Focus for a driver who’s skilled at yoga?
Poem - Designer.
December 14, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
“What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.”
“What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.”
“What would you be willing to sacrifice to have a loved one back for a minute, a day, or a lifetime?"
After my son Alex was killed by a drunk driver, I had a dream in which I was asked this question. Once I started thinking about it, I realized I would give up everything, and it later evolved into a science fiction book. I modeled the main character after my son. Alex's mannerisms and attitude became the basis for Xavier's character development. Xavier is a clone who does not know he is a clone nor who is controlling his fate. With his friends' help, he must uncover the people behind the conspiracy to create a shadow government and locate the others known as the Zodiac Thirteen.”
“What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?”
“What would you call an organism that exists on a diet of stars?'
I struggled to remember my Greek and Latin root words. 'I think you'd call it "Astrophage".”
Source: Project Hail Mary