W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What would you prefer – to remain a child all your life and have paranormal powers, or to become an adult and sacrifice your paranormal powers? Nature has made this a tradeoff. Do you want to be Peter Pan, who can fly but can never grow up, or do you want to join the adults and have adult fun and also adult responsibilities? Why do children lose their natural powers? Is it possible to get these powers back? Can adults recover their lost paranormal abilities, the abilities which society warned them as children never to play with? It’s always dangerous to play with fire. It’s even more dangerous to ignore your natural fire. Isn’t it time to light up your life?”
Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?”
“What would you sacrifice for power?”
Source: And I Darken
“What would you say if I asked you to consider postponing your trip a few days?"
"I'd say you obviously don't know my mother. If I don't get back home for this party, you'll need a bulldozer to dig me out of the layers of guilt she'll pile on me.”
Source: A Lot Like Love
“What would you say if I told you 5G wireless radiation transmitters had been globally deployed against the advice of most independent radiation researchers?”
“What would you say if no one were watching? Something funny, so the night becomes less lonely?”
Source: Our Funny Love Story
“What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?”
“What would you see, if I took you up
To my little nest in the air?
You would see the sky like a clear blue cup
Turned upside downwards there.
What would you do if I took you there
To my little nest in the tree?
My child with cries would trouble the air,
To get what she could but see.
What would you get in the top of the tree
For all your crying and grief?
Not a star would you clutch of all you see --
You could only gather a leaf.
But when you had lost your greedy grief,
Content to see from afar,
You would find in your hand a withering leaf,
In your heart a shining star.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
“What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked.
“We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed in”
Source: Fallen Legion
“What would you tell her about me?”
He did not just ask that.
“You did not just ask that.” She chuckled.
“I’m serious,” he smiled.
“Very well, if you must know, I would say that you are arrogant and foolish, too handsome for your own good and far too cognizant of your own intellect. Unbending, unsympathetic, dogmatic, pig-headed—”
“Handsome?” he interrupted, unable to keep the smile from his face. “And intelligent?”
“Don’t forget arrogant.”
Source: The Runaway Countess
“What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?”
“What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.”
“What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.”
“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives?”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“What would you trade for youth—honestly?”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“What would you write on the front license plate of a Dodge Viper for an artist who wears his left canvas in reverse?
Poem - Designer, from EvolutionR.
December 14, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by living things and people.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”
“What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.”
“What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time's up?”
“What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally?”
“What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?”
Source: Gospel
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?”
Source: If Your Shoes Could Speak
“What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.”
“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
“What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.”
“What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.”
Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
“What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves, we will be defined by others for their use and to our detriment." Our country and perhaps all human history is a pattern of oppression, repression, suppression, subjugation. Racism is part of our heritage, reminding us that not all aspects of a culture should be preserved.”
Source: Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle
“What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.”
“What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.”
“What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.”
“What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.”
“What writing does is to reveal.”
“What writing means to me?
-Releasing my wolves...
(Natasa Alina Culea)”
Source: Natașa, bărbații și psihanalistul
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.”
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.”
“What year did Jesus think it was?”
Source: Brain Droppings
“What year is it in your imagination?”
“What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.”
Source: What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel
“What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.”
“What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.”
“What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough?"
"Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.”
Source: Mules and Men
“What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.”
Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness
“What you absorb is what you exude.”
“What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.”