W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“Which is colder, the hand or the gun?”
“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”
Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
“Which is great, since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding my motorcycle in forty-degree weather while it rains.”
Source: Long Way Home
“Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?”
“Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.”
Source: Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography
“Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?”
“Which is less aspirational, a look of constipation...or a look of consternation? It'd be a close call.”
“which is love's property”
Source: Falling Awake
“Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it gets bandied about a good bit) is that they don't write the "big" stories about "universal" or "worldly" concepts...Jesus. Um, when we do? We get told to get back in the kitchen and bedroom - go back to writing about love-y wife-y mother-y things.”
“Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.”
Source: Philosophical Dictionary
“Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?”
“Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?”
“Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?”
“Which is more intricate?” he mused. “The designs of men, trying to reach gods, or that of gods, trying to reach men?”
“What is either to the intricacies of women, who reach both?”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?”
“Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?”
“Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.”
“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.”
“Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?”
“Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.”
“Which is my favourite author??
You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books...”
“Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.”
Source: The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization
“Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.”
“which is pretty pathetic, to be honest. which is what i am. i shouldn't be surprised at myself.”
Source: Radio Silence
“Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.”
“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?”
“Which is so important, I mean, that's what's so great about the books, is, you know, those two worlds are sort of, the slacker world of just comedy and laziness and then this crazy, over the top action, supernatural world, and you know, combined.”
“Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.”
“Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.”
“Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything else, it replaces the Constitution itself. So, you can`t be assimilated into the American civilization and accept Sharia law as being superior to our Constitution. It`s antithetical to Americanism.”
“Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.”
“Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.”
“Which is the better of the bunk beds in a prison cell? Generally, the upper bunk bed is the place, as it is typically the one next to the window and fresh air vent.”
“Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?”
“Which is the highest Samadhi (Blessed State Of The Self)? One who is completely aware. What is Kevalgnan (Absolute Knowledge)? One who is hundred percent aware.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?”
“Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!”
“Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”
“Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“Which is the right path for man to choose for himself? Whatever is harmonious for the one who does it, and harmonious for mankind.”
Source: Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers
“Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?”
“Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”