W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.”
“Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“Who controls the airwaves of peace?”
“Who controls the espresso machine controls absolutely everything in Italy.”
“Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“Who controls the past now controls the future.
Who controls the present now controls the past.
Who controls the past now controls the future.
Who controls the present now?”
“Who could be born under such a lucky star? Who dug the soul in search of a well and found an ocean?”
“Who could be like him? Who could ever be like you? Each of us has his path. They run close together sometimes—for life, if we are fortunate—but they never cross.”
Source: Brothers of the Wild North Sea
“Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.”
“Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?”
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.”
Source: The collected poems of John Ciardi
“Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?”
“Who could blame her for choosing fighting aliens and evil instead of just being an ordinary mum?”
Source: Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Who could blame her for wanting the baby to be alive? His Irene still cried sometimes about young Billy, and it had been twenty years since he’d drowned as a tot. They’d had five more kids since then, but it was never far away, the sadness.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans
“Who could care about the stars when there was her to look at?”
“Who could conceive back then the enormity of Saul's brooding hatred for me or comprehend the threatening paradox that the more I accomplished to gratify him, the greater would grow the jealousy and wrath he felt toward me? I know I was hurt when I saw him so angry with me that first time, and I was flustered in a queer and guilt-ridden way each time I found him so thereafter.”
Source: God Knows
“Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.”
“Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.”
“Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Who could ever tell a story complete?”
Source: No Book but the World: A Novel
“Who could forget Malcolm Devon?”
“Who could forget that brave little goldfish standing up to sharks?”
Source: Tears of Salt
“Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.”
“Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others”
“Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?”
“Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid.”
“Who could have predicted what would happen in the time it takes to boil an egg?”
“Who could have that that
Silence could be so silent?
Who could?
For even thoughts
They are so loud
How can they ever convey
Something as silent as silence
How can they?”
Source: Anant Brihaspati & Family
“Who could have thought that anyone would love a hideous nutcracker?”
Source: Drosselmeyer's Dream: A Nutcracker Retelling
“Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?”
“Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?”
Source: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.”
“Who could not conquer with such troops as these?”
“Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?”
“Who could peep into your pocket and see how much money you had? This was all the world had to go by. Dress and address.”
Source: Milk Teeth
“Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
Source: Macbeth
“Who could say why worthwhile people have worthless children?”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“Who could truly set His shield to rest?
His throne? His mighty spear?
Think on that. Remember it well, O princes.
Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan?
Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?”
Source: Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry
“Who could you be if you didn’t know who you were?”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO
“Who couldn't believe there's a God?”
“Who counts the wampum of the night to see that none is due?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson - [ FREE AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD ] [ ANNOTATED ]
“Who covets more is evermore a slave.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
“Who created merit and demerit karma (paap and punya)? The society? No. they are a natural phenomenon.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.”
“Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.”
“Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?”
Source: Lone Dog's Winter Count