W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.”
“Who do people say the Son of Man is? ...But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In the end, people's answer to this question will be the only thing that matters; it alone will determine people's eternal destiny.”
Source: Encountering John: The Gospel in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective
“Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.”
Source: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel
“Who do we belong with but each other?”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.”
“Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“Who do you listen to? Who influences your day to day decisions? Many of us are being led & misled away from our own thinking power.”
“Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?”
Source: The Detective D. D. Warren Series 5-Book Bundle: Alone, Hide, The Neighbor, Live to Tell, Love You More
“Who do you really trust?”
Source: The feast of our life: Preparing to flourish through self-love
“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.”
Source: In the Pines
“Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.”
“Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.”
“Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.”
“Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.”
“Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?”
“Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.”
“Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded.
Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves?”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?”
“Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?”
“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”
“Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.”
“Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.”
“Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am? You only love to see me breaking. You only want me 'cause I'm Taken. No, you don't really want my heart, no you just like to know you can. Still be the one that gets it breaking, you only want me when I'm Taken.”
“Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.”
“Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?”
“Who do you think, as you gaze at the entire scene in Washington, who is it that's acting like a bunch of children? It isn't Trump. Who is it throwing the tantrums because they didn't get their way? Who is it acting like hysterical spoiled brats because their side lost the game? Who is it that's insisting, because they lost the game, that the rules be changed? Who is it that's acting like any average eight- to nine-year-old kid who's told he can't have any more Twinkies or whatever kids - marijuana; I don't know.”
“Who do you want them to think you are? How do you think people see you? Or don't you let them near enough to see. You make up their minds for them. Do you think you succeed in convincing people that you are what you seem to be? You make people meet you on your own territory. You don't help them. You let them verbally hang themselves and then feel better about yourself, your power, your own sense of worth. You have the power to alienate them and if they allow it, you might even manage to make them feel awkward and foolish--foolish for letting you affect them at all. Do you want them to like you? Or are you one of those people who "don't care what people think." You're not living your life for them, so why should you give a fuck what people think? You make people come to you and, when they eventually do, you punish them with your smugness. Nothing ever out of character.”
Source: The Princess Diarist
“Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?”
“Who do you work for? That question haunted salesmen. Whenever a trader screwed a customer and the salesman became upset, the trader would ask the salesman, “Who do you work for anyway?” The message was clear: You work for Salomon Brothers. You work for me. I pay your bonus at the end of the year. So just shut up, you geek.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“Who does a goddess pray to?”
Source: The Dark Wife
“Who does A. I. (artificial intelligence) benefit? The people it replaces or the moguls who dominate and saturate the market with pseudo human intelligence.
It may make life easier for some, but as you know, humanity can be a waste at times.”
“Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?”
“Who does chase nasty cocks from dark corners? That’s who I’m looking for.
-Rose”
Source: Gaslighting
“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
Source: Our Souls at Night
“Who does have it all figured out, really? If someone tells you they’ve figured out exactly what they want to do with their entire life, they are either lying—to you and themselves—or they haven’t thought about it enough. (Return to India)”
Source: Each of Us Killers
“Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.”
Source: A Heap o' Living'
“Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.”
“Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?”
Source: Utopia
“Who does not believe his first passion eternal?”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!”
Source: The World's best orations: from the earliest period to the present time
“Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?”
“Who does not grow, declines.”
“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?”
“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
“Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.”
“Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.”
Source: The Art of War
“Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.”