W Quotes
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“Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Where had Mrs. Borkowski's should gone?
(p. 139)”
Source: Raymie Nightingale
“Where had they all gone to, he often pondered; those threads he had once held together, how far had they scattered, some to break, others to weave into unknown patterns? The strange randomness of the world beguiled him, that randomness which never would, so long as the world lasted, give meaning to those choruses again.”
Source: Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
“Where had they learned to converse and to dance? I couldn't converse or dance. Everybody knew something I didn't know. The girls looked so good, the boys so handsome. I would be too terrified to even look at one of those girls, let alone be close to one. To look into her eyes or dance with her would be beyond me.
And yet I know that what I saw wasn't as simple and good as it appeared. There was a price to be paid for it all, a general falsity, that could be easily believed, and could be the first step down a dead-end street.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held together by the quiet gathering of words.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
Source: Zoli: A Novel
“Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.”
“Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?”
“Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4
“Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.”
“Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?”
Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin
“Where hate grows, love starves.”
“Where hate is uprooted, love grows.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.”
Source: The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.
“Where have all the flowers gone”
“Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes”
Source: A Gardener's Log
“Where have all the good men gone? Graveyards, mostly.”
– Dread Emperor Malevolent III, the Pithy”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?”
“Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life?
For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a problem; rather, it was as if life in general had a grudge against her. Things persisted in turning grey. Although at first she had revelled in the erudite seclusion of her job, in the protection against the vulgarities of the world that it offered, after five years she now felt that in some way it had aged her disproportionately, that she was as old as the yellowed papers she spent her days unfolding. When, very occasionally, she raised her eyes from the past and surveyed the present, it faded from her view and became as ungraspable as a mirage. Although she had discussed this with the Director, who had waved away her condition of mind as an occupational hazard, she was still not satisfied that this was how the only life she had been offered should be lived.”
“Where have the many attempts made by Science to bind, to connect, and define all the phenomena of organic life by mere physical and chemical manifestations, brought it to? To speculation generally”
Source: The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4
“Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American.”
“Where have you been?'
'Gail's, Pam's, Mrs. B's. Just...around?'
'No, Snowflake. Where have you been before? Where have you been all my life?'
'I was right here. Waiting for you.' I pressed my palm against his heart, smiling.”
Source: Bane
“Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.”
“Where have you been?" he asked slowly.
"Um, in the bathroom, mostly," Larry said. Let's just say my plumbing is not working any better than Mexico City's.”
Source: Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
“Where have you been?” I asked, almost a whisper. I wanted to laugh hysterically at the controlled calmness of it all, as if nothing at all had happened, as if he hadn’t resurrected himself after an eternity of absence.
“New York. I have a good friend there. I found a job, a place. I had to- away from here; away from Bella; from you.”
Swallowing, I clasped my hands together to stop from trembling and I said in a low, audible voice, “From me?”
He sighed heavily. “I can’t love you, Helena. I still love Bella. And I suppose I could love another woman in another way at the same time, but not you.”
“…but why?” I tried hard to keep my voice and gaze even. I glanced at the plain wedding ring on the third finger on his left hand, his wedding band. It was gleaming brightly in the firelight. I felt my heart plummet, like a disappointed child.
Seeking the right words, he replied with a very soft voice, “It’s because I would always see you as an extension of her. I want to fall in love with you in separate way, the one that involves only us, uninfluenced by the past and our hurt. I can’t do that now and I can’t tell when I’ll be able to.”
Source: The Whys Of Us
“Where have you been?" I asked weakly. A few minutes ago I would have rather died than questioned him. Let him know I care. But I'm too sick to be strong, kick ass Rayne at the moment.
"Vegas" he says.
I raise an eyebrows. "Uh, okay. Win anything?" I can't believe he was off gambling as I lay dying. I mean, I know poker is hot and all, but couldn't he have waited a couple of days for that straight flush?
"I got what I went for, if that's what you mean."
"What, a lap dance?"
He chuckes. "Even sick, you're still funny, Rayne.”
Source: Stake That
“Where have you been? I returned to the river, I returned to the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again, I begged to wed every object and creature, and when they accepted, then I knew my soul —every soul—then i knew, the souls are drawn from the oceans.”
Source: NON - DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE
“Where have you been?” I softly answered followed by a question. I wanted to laugh hysterically at the controlled calmness of it all, as if nothing at all had happened, as if he hadn’t resurrected himself after an eternity of absence.
“New York,” I have a good friend there. I found a job, a place. I had to- away from here; away from Bella; from you.”
Swallowing, I clasped my hands together to stop from trembling and I said in a low, audible voice, “From me?”
He sighed heavily. “I can’t love you, Helena. I still love Bella. And I suppose I could love another woman in another way at the same time, but not you.”
“…but why?” I tried hard to keep my voice and gaze even. I glanced at the plain wedding ring on the third finger on his left hand, his wedding band. It was gleaming brightly in the firelight. I felt my heart plummet, like a disappointed child.
Seeking the right words, he replied with a very soft voice, “It’s because I would always see you as an extension of her. I want to fall in love with you in separate way, the one that involves only us, uninfluenced by the past and our hurt. I can’t do that now and I can’t tell when I’ll be able to.”
Source: The Whys Of Us
“Where have you been?" I stepped into my apartment and met Uncle Bob's glare with one of my own. "Out trying to pass myself off as a movie producer to get hot guys to sleep with me. Where have you been?”
Source: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
“Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.”
Source: The Left Hand of God
“Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?”
“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”
“Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.”
“Where he was heat, she was ice and winter and cosmic fury.”
Source: Wicked Saints
“Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.”
“Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two and it amazed and delighted, causing a stir in the pit of him, a kind of fibrillation.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“Where his skin touched hers, it felt like there was a current of pure magic between them. It was enough to boil her veins.”
Source: Cursed By The Crown
“Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.”
“Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.”
“Where, how & what we stand for speaks volumes more than our silences" Dilip”
Source: Sambhaji
“Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.”
“Where human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begin to manifest in abundance.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“Where humans act human there reigns harmony.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.”
“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”
Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness
“Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate Semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parable therein.”
“Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart.”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Where I am at, is not actually where I am at. Where I am at is merely a point on the path to where I am going.”
Source: A Chain of Flames