W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Where's the need of singing now?”
Source: The Poetry of E.A. Robinson
“Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?”
“Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?”
Source: Taggerung
“Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.”
“Where's the rest of me?”
“Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?”
Source: The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover
“Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.”
“Where's the upside in opening your mouth?”
“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.”
“Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn”
“Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?”
Source: Carpe Corpus
“Where's your will to be weird?”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.”
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?”
“Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?”
“Where, oh, where are my WWE ice cream bars?!”
“Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?”
Source: The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park
“Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.”
Source: The Lady of the Lake: A Poem
“Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?”
“Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?”
“Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.”
“Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“whereabouts in the body is that bird when the person is still alive? In that furrowed brow, above the halolike crown of that head, in some chamber of the heart?”
Source: Human Acts
“Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.”
“Whereas a belief in an absurd world arises out of the fundamental disharmony of a person searching for meaning in an apparently meaninglessness universe, an existential nihilist displays impassive intellectual stoicism towards their eventual mortality while embracing a passionate artistic commitment to munity against the underlying syndrome of insignificance and confusion encasing life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.”
“Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.”
“Whereas a man is entitled to make his own mistakes, he is not forgiven the mistakes he makes on behalf of others.”
Source: The Secret Jesus: A Modern Novel
“Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s Shari'a courts have been established and they allow for women to go to them and they basically grant them annulment. It's not a civil divorce, they don't have the right to grant alimony or maintenance or custody.”
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”
“Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.”
“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.”
“Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.”
Source: A Star Called the Sun
“Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.”
“Whereas an Otaku is a true connoisseur of the culture, showing the same reverence and respectful distance which any true expert
shows to their chosen field of expertise, the Weeaboo is like a socially awkward adolescent, ineptly trying to gain the social acceptance of Japanese people — because their unfortunate mental disorder has caused them to believe they are, in fact, Japanese.”
Source: The Japanophile's Handbook
“Whereas Angeline's antics made me want to pull out my hair sometimes, Trey found them endearing.”
“Whereas atheism is the child who left home, Satanism looks sillier with every year it sticks around poking fun at mom and dad.”
“Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.”
Source: My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
“Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.”
“Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.”
“Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.”
“Whereas clarity and ingenuity are required for creating current and future state maps, focus and discipline are essential for successfully executing and sustaining improvement.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation