W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.”
“Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.”
“Who calls at Habetrot's chamber?' comes a whispery voice.
Oak raises his eyebrows at me, as though he intends me to answer.
Fine, if that's what he wants. 'Suren, whose garb has been deemed inadequate by an obnoxious prince, despite the fact I've seen people go naked to revels.'
Rather than be insulted, Oak laughs delightedly.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?”
Source: City of Ashes
“Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Source: The Book of the Law
“Who came up with the idea of calling it ‘rush hour’? Veronica thought, frustrated. Where’s the rush when nobody is moving? And if only it had been an hour! She pondered the obvious misnomer, tapping her fingers impatiently on the steering wheel. The only rush she felt was that of road rage. The proper name would be ‘rage hours.”
“Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.”
Source: FUTU.RE
“Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world.
The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son.
The only requirement is to believe in Him.
The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.”
“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?”
“Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today, if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours.”
“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?”
Source: The Gay Science
“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”
Source: The Gay Science
“Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.”
Source: The Descent
“Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.”
“Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?”
Source: Approaching Zion
“Who can be born black and not exult!”
Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems
“Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Who can be patient in extremes?”
“Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!”
“Who can be trusted in this world filled with hidden enemies?”
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Who can be worried without the light of a memory?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Who can be your killer or who can kill you and how they react??
Nice question, I just look as a killer, so here is how it goes a killer can be everyone he probably can want to kill you, then somebody kill him and then this person wants to kill you... Isn't it a reverse???
Mind Hunters is a film about reverse, if you wanna check out this film!?
The killers are silent and react fact, think double, think in such way that to be caged... awesome isn't it??”
“Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?”
Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!”
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Who can blind lover's eyes?”
“Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be.”
Source: Complete Works
“Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.”
“who can carry
The incineration of a Universe?”
Source: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
“Who can comprehend my torment, my sleepless nights, my flirtation with suicide? After all, haven’t I everything one could wish: money, friends, family, a beautiful and charming wife, renown, respectability? Who will comfort me? Who refrain from asking the obvious question: “What more can you want?”
Source: When Nietzsche Wept
“Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.”
Source: the elements of style
“Who can control his fate?”
“Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.”
“Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.”
“Who can count the sand by the sea?”
“Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.”
Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“Who can deny it? The Church existed before the Bible; she made the Bible; she selected its books, and she preserved it. She handed it down; through her we know what is the Word of God, and what the word of man; and hence to try at this time of day, as many do, to overthrow the Church by means of this very Bible, and to put it above the Church, and to revile her for destroying it and corrupting it - what is this but to strike the mother that reared them; to curse the hand that fed them; to turn against their best friend and benefactor; and to repay with ingratitude and slander their very guide and protector who has led them to drink of the water out of the Saviour's fountains.”
Source: Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church
“Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?”
“Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.”
“Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters
“Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.”
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”
“Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?”
“Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?”
Source: The Art of War
“Who can dim your light and go by what you seem? I don’t like to judge. I prefer to dream.”
Source: Imagination and a World of Dreams
“Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.”
“Who can do anything after Beethoven?”
Source: A detailed analysis of Franz Schubert's Octet in F major, op. 166