W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?”
Source: Inkdeath
“Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.”
“Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”
“Who are your heroes?" asked Jo.
"Grandfather and Napoleon.”
“Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves as opposed to doing what is expected? We all admire the idea of living a life unbound by thoughts of fear. People who seem to live that dream inspire us to want to do the same. They mirror the qualities that we possess but are too scared to access.”
“Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face."
"O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?
When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things—when wilt thou drink this strange soul—
—When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Who art thou [...] Who layest dead in the grave, and art come down alive to us, and in thy death all the creatures trembled, and all the stars were moved, and now hast thou thy liberty among the dead, and givest disturbance to our legions?”
Source: The Gospel Of Nicodemus Formerly Called The Acts Of Pontius Pilate
“Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
don't get
who don't get
don't care”
“Who asks a king for a penny?”
“Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?”
“Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton
“Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”
Source: The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher
“Who becomes more fit? The man who fills his days reading books on weightlifting and diet, or the man who reads no such books, but never misses a morning round of pushups, pull-ups and squats? Learning about fitness is not fitness. Learning about dance is not dancing. Learning about success is not success. Unless you are a teacher or author, learning is only as useful as it turns into action.”
Source: sciVive
“Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.”
“Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.”
“Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.”
“Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don't think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health.”
“Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.”
“Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?”
“Who betrays whom first.”
Source: Windwitch
“Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?”
“Who better to rule a kingdom, the noble born or a wise patriot who loves his country?”
Source: The Bandit's Redemption
“Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.”
“Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.”
“Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?”
Source: Pollok's Course of Time
“Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.”
“Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.”
Source: Poems, Plays, and
“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
Source: Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes
“Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?”
“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”
“Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?”
“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4
“Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series
“Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?”
“Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?”
“Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?”
Source: Straight Man
“Who but knows
How it goes!
Life's a last year's Nightingale,
Love's a last year's rose.”
Source: Poems
“Who but lovers dream alike?”
Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”
Source: Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
“Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.”
“Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.”
Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?”
“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”
Source: Going Bovine
“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him.”
“Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?”
“Who buys French cars? Not me.”