W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.”
Source: Safe Haven
“What? You don't trust me?”
“What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.” It was Colin’s first attempt at forbidding anyone to do anything, and it worked about as well as he’d expected it to. Which was to say, not at all.”
“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.”
“What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!”
“What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.”
“What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!!”
“What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this door." "But you're ruining me." "I can't do it neatly?”
“What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.”
Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.”
Source: Solstice Wood
“What?" Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“What?" she asked again. He pointed ahead of them. "See that?" "What, the snow?" "Beyond that." "More snow?" "Stop looking at the snow.”
“What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.”
Source: Tempting Danger
“What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.”
“What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.”
Source: Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel
“What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.”
Source: Sample of the CITYs
“What`s going to happen, really on one issue specifically, to their health care, among some other things. And right now, Republicans don`t have any legislative details or much in the way of answers, yet.”
“Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."
"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.”
Source: Below the Belt
“Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give you three guesses. No, wait. Don't strain yourself. Wouldn't want to hurt your head." I waved a flyer in his face, channeling my inner mean girl. "See these? I'm hanging them...on a...wall!" I spoke the last part slowly, as if addressing a dim-witted child. Which wasn't far off the mark, now that I thought about it. "With tape," I added, waving at the dispenser. "You know-sticky, sticky!”
“Whatcha gonna do to this?
You may be older than me, but you're new to this.
Cause I been out there, queen of MC's,
When your man was walkin' round in mocknecks and Lee's.
While you were over here perpetratin' a fraud,
I was overseas on the charts with Boy George.
You're the beginner, Shante's the winner,
Havin' other competition for dinner.
Sit you on the table with a plate and cup,
Say grace...and then eat your ass up.”
“Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!”
“Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?”
“Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assured,
As firmly as yourself were in still place -
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
O this learning, what a thing it is!”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.”
“Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.”
“Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems
“Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.”
“Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
To sleep! to sleep!
Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.”
“Whatever 'in love' means.”
“Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.”
“Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.”
“Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.”
“Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.”
“Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.”
“Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.”
“Whatever a man fears he will worship. If you fear poverty, you will eventually worship money.”
“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”
Source: Aquinas Selected Political Writings
“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.”
“Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.”
Source: The Spirit of St. Louis
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”
“Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.”
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.”
“Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.”
“Whatever a man sow, shall he reap.”
“Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.”
Source: What Evry Wom Know Men
“Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.”
“Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.”
Source: MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…