W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whether your sport of choice is running, cycling, kite surfing, etc. start moving and stay moving! It will give you energy and help you stay young.”
“Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.”
Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
“Whether youre a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or youre a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, youve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.”
“Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.”
“Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.”
“Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.”
“Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.”
“Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.”
“Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.”
“Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.”
“Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.”
“Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.”
“Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.”
Source: Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
“Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.”
Source: The Quiet American
“Whew,” he said. “You clean up good. You don’t look like the same girl.”
She frowned right before she laughed. “Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?”
Source: Wild Man Creek
“Whew! You look like butter!"
Feyi laughed as she swiped toner over her skin and patted in a serum. "I look like butter? That's the line you're going with?"
"Mm-hmm. All that gold and yellow." He leaned toward her, his voice drawling into a singsong. "You look like ghee and honey, baby, you look like money.”
Source: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
“Whew! You two are blowing hotter air than a tornado circlin’ a volcano in Hades.”
“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”
Source: Small world: an academic romance
“WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Ah. I see we are now into the second movement of the Nakamura Suite in G-Minor!”
Source: Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
“Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?”
“Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested.”
Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
“Which Anguish was the utterest--then--
To perish, or to live?”
Source: Dickinson
“which anyone could have guessed from breakfast.
Usually our morning fare was watery vegetable broth and burnt rice, but today a feast awaited us. There was fish congee with all the toppings-chives and dried shrimp and salted eggs and an enormous pan of fried crullers, her specialty. Mama only made crullers when she foresaw good tidings in our future.
"This is the trip that's going to change everything," she'd said, dropping a cruller into Nomi's bowl of congee. "I can feel it." After we ate, she gathered us around Baba. "Come, ask your father what presents you'd like him to bring back.”
Source: A Forgery of Fate
“Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?”
Source: The Magus
“Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.”
“Which are you, the monster or the man?”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?”
“Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?”
“Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.”
“Which begs the question, who are you when you aren't putting on a show for everyone?”
Source: It's Just The Two Of Us Now: An Emir’s Oasis play by Emir Darlov
“Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“Which brings me to the point of this call."
Thank God, baby Jesus, and the Holy Ghost.”
Source: Wait for You
“Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.”
“Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?”
Source: Tender Triumph
“Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with,' [said the Doctor]”
Source: Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.”
Source: Unspoken
“Which came first - the observer or the particle?”
“Which came first:
the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?”
Source: Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
“Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?”
“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”
“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”
“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.”
“Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?”
“Which category do you belong in? Are you a pawn in this game? Or a queen? Are you dark or light?" He raised his eyes to hers. "Are you good or evil?"
She pulled the piece from his fingers, careful not to brush her skin against his, and placed it beside Hades. "I belong to the dark. I belong beside my king. And if you have forgotten that I am a queen, I have not.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”
“Which college?'
'Hmm?'
'Which college do you go to?'
Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.'
'I'm sorry?'
'Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed.
Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook her head.”
Source: Mortal Coil
“Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.”