W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to Heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see 'em again 'til the Fourth of July”
“Where do broken hearts go?
Do Angels heal them, though
the ruby love refuses stitches?”
Source: Scribblings Of My Soul
“Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.”
“Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Where do fairies come from?" she asked, thinking it was the simplest entry into a complicated subject.
The first laugh of a baby. A special baby. So they say. Tinker Bell smiled wryly. We are here, we appear, sometimes there are more of us. I awoke under a leaf, curled up like a drop of dew, complete. Tinker Bell!”
Source: Straight On Till Morning
“Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.”
“Where do human rights arise, anyway? In the sun, in the moon, in the daily paper, in the conscientious heart? They arise in responsible government. Where does security lie, anyway--security against the thief, the murderer, the footpad? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government. Where does control lie--control of smoking in the theater, of nuclear energy in the planet? Control lies in government, because government is people.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.”
“Where do I come from?
We are the children of the Great Explosion of Love that begot the whole Universe. We bear a common lineage that unites us in its interminable matrix, that is manifested in all of the different and infinite dimensions, allowing us to participate in this unending co-creation with an attitude of loving co-responsibility.
Who am I?
I am a being of light (Love), with innumerable dimensional manifestations of shadings of Love and Life. The transitory experience within matter, time and space (human being) resides in those manifestations. This allows me the use of my free will in a co-responsible way in the co-creative process of life.”
“Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?”
“where do i find self love?'
you dig
dig until you find the gold”
Source: Unfolding
“Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?”
“Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.”
“Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.”
“Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.
Truth was, it didn’t matter.
She had a new beginning.”
Source: Totem Lake
“Where do I go from here?”
“Where do I go,
where do I go from here
if I don't see you anywhere?”
Source: Soul Song: Poetry and Prose of Awakening to Divine Love
“Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.”
“Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.”
“Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.”
“Where do oligarchs come from?
They come from people's shallowness.
When people stop being shallow,
no oligarch shall get to grow,
to spread their life-crushing tentacles.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?”
Source: Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries
“Where do people...and why do people...have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It's when God's people have to wait that they get in trouble. The alternative to waiting for God is idolatry.”
“Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?”
“Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.”
“Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.”
“Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!”
“Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.”
“Where do rumors come from, Sir Kofa?" i was truly curious to know the answer.
"Where don't they come from? I suppose the majority of rumors are a combination of leaked information and the astouding imaginations of numerous storytellers. And, of course, the hope that things aren't really as boring as they seem on the surface.”
Source: The Stranger
“Where do shadows fall when there is only light.”
“Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.”
Source: What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction
“Where do the ducks go in the winter?”
“Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?”
“Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.”
“Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.”
Source: Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation
“Where do the thoughts go, the ones we never write.”
“Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?”
Source: The Penitent
“Where do the words go when we have said them?”
Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975
“Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?”
“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”
Source: The Artist, The Audience, and a Man Called Nothing
“Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.”
“Where do thoughts come from, Father?”
King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.”
Source: Call Of The Tree
“Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.”
“Where do we begin?”
“At the beginning.”
Source: Legendborn
“Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.”
“Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.”
“Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?”
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
“Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms, you're still yourself. You cut off your arms and your legs, you're still yourself, right? Also, the idea of the self seems to be embedded right around here, right around the eyes. Infants know to look at the eyes.”