W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who can love someone who is empty inside? Someone who steals love instead of earning it?”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?”
“Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: including the supplement to the first edition; with elucidations
“Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
Source: A Gandhi Reader
“Who can make you unhappy, if you have developed the ability to enjoy even difficult and uninteresting jobs?”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”
“Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.”
Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III
“Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.”
“Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?”
“Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?”
“Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?”
“Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.”
Source: Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
“Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?”
Source: Poems
“Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?”
“Who can raise up their hand to claim to be more civilised when violence and corruption are still exalted in every society?”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?”
Source: Life Together
“Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.”
Source: Harbour
“Who can really say what they would do in that kind of situation without ever being in it?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?”
“Who can redeem us from our sins? ONLY the Saviour, Jesus Christ.”
“Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean?”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Who can resist the thought that love is the ideological bone thrown to women to distract their attention from the powerlessness of their lives?”
“Who can resist this handsome mug?” He stroked his broad jaw and I tried my hardest not to nod along. “Complete with rapist facial hair,” I added.”
Source: Dead Sky Morning
“Who can rest until the moment of action?”
“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames? Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?”
Source: The Wounded Healer
“Who can save a wretched soul? Only the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Who can save my wretched soul? Only the Saviour , the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?”
Source: Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories
“Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.”
“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Who can say the word love
When everything--everything--pushes back with the promise
To grind itself to dust?”
Source: Duende
“Who can say what happens when we are remembered?”
Source: Held
“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”
Source: Lolita
“Who can say where anything truly begins? The cloud, the raindrop, the original speck of dust around which water collects? We can only ever locate the middle when we get to the end. And then, at the absolute end, what’s the point in finding the middle, or even the beginning?”
Source: Twist
“Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?”
“Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you've acquired by overcoming your deepest fears? Who can truly respect those things that are no longer a part of you because of all your work to release them? Who can see the strength left behind in the wake of your unique struggles and obstacles? Who will see you for who you are, appreciating everything that is there, everything that is not, everything that can be, if you do not? Who else can?”
“Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.”
Source: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Who can slap it, go deep with it, give you that FUNKY stuff, and get the crowd moving to the sound of pure perfection? BASSIST.”
“Who can sleep on the night that God became man?”
“Who can sleep when we've got Trish the fuckin' bulldozer with us?”
Source: Return to Paradise
“Who can stand the weight of God's wrath?”
“Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.”
“Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.”
Source: Goodnight Eleanor
“Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.”
Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“Who can take a single step with his head?”
“Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.”
“Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned”
Source: What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World