W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.”
Source: Beyond All Pity
“Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.”
Source: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter; we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.”
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition
“Who has made the decision that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a still pond? Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons? Who has decided - who has the right to decide - for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight? The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power; he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is deep and imperative.”
Source: Silent Spring
“Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error.”
“Who has more leisure than a worm?”
“Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.”
“Who has never killed an hour?”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.”
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
Source: The Black Cat
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”
Source: Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences
“Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.”
Source: New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace
“who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?”
Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c
“Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?”
“Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus
“Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?”
“Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?”
“Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?”
“Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.”
“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
Source: The Duino elegies
“Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”
“Who has not served cannot command.”
“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?”
“Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)?”
Source: Of All Things
“Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.”
“Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?”
Source: Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works
“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”
Source: Poems and prose
“Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.”
“Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?”
“Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?”
“Who has stolen my pen?”
“Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?”
“Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.”
“Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?”
“Who has the data has the power.”
“Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.”
Source: Silent Spring
“Who has the right to say, "Vyavasthit" (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) ahead of time? It is one who does not interfere at all with the attributes of the prakruti (non-Self complex)!!”
“Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?”
“Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.”
“Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children?”
“Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn't honoring your feelings, it's not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that's a red flag!”
“who has time to dream about butterflies in a world of caged birds?”
Source: Half Love: Metade Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese). An immigrant poetic journey and her pondering about life, love and loss
“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
Source: Gossip Girl: It Had To Be You
“Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.”