W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who has words at the right moment?”
Source: Villette: Easyread Edition
“Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Who hasn’t succumbed to a hopeless feeling more powerful than all the strength one might possibly muster, wondering how many first steps will have to be taken, how many actions performed and words spoken, how many labyrinths will have to be negotiated in order, finally, to reach the moment at which reality begins to happen.”
Source: Shantytown
“Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?”
Source: Piercing
“Who hasn't danced in their underwear?”
“Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.”
“Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?”
“who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?”
“Who hastens a glutton choakes him.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor turn away from them. But they suffered with them, admonished them, comforted them. gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.”
Source: The Jew of Malta
“Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be;
Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.”
“Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who hath no head, needes no heart.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
[Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]”
“Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.”
Source: The Poems of John Gay ...
“Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. A New Edition, with Illustrations by John Gilbert. [With a Portrait.]
“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”
“Who hath not served can not command.”
“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep”
Source: Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder
“Who have we here? some amateur in fights! an inquisitive, wonder- seeking non-combatant, who has volunteered to serve his king, and perhaps draw a picture, or write a book, to serve himself! Pray, sir, in what capacity did you serve in this vessel?”
Source: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
“Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Source: Robert Browning's complete works
“Who heeds not experience, trust him not.”
Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads
“Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand”
Source: The Analects
“Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.”
“Who here can never say they have committed murder, whether in the name of the God or otherwise?”
I meet the High Saint’s eye by accident. It’s burning with holy reverence as he nods. Nothing wakes a High Saint up like reminding them that we are all sinners in the hands of the Merciful God. It’s like wine to them and they’ll drink it to the dregs.
“So it is and always is,” he intones gravely.
Sir Kodelai shoots him a quelling look and it’s hard not to laugh at how the piety of the one has ruined the performance of the other’s piety.”
Source: Of Deeds Most Valiant
“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”
Source: QB VII
“Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.”
“Who hides a ring? Who sets up this whole cockamamie production with puzzle pieces and treasure hunts and who knows what else over a ring?”
Source: The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
“Who. Hit. You?”
Source: Strange Angels
“Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.”
“Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“Who holds your heart shapes your path. If it is strong, you rise. If it is weak, you fall.”
“Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us...and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real...and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us...and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!”
“Who hurt you, once,
so far beyond repair
that you would meet each overture
with curling lip?
While we, who knew you well,
your friends, (the focus of your scorn)
could see your courage in the face of fear,
your wit, and thoughtfulness,
and will remember you
with something close to love.”
Source: Bury Your Dead
“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”
“Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.”
“Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?”
“Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”
“Who I am—I am burning in the night of darkness, and I can see and acknowledge my flames. I have survived because I have written my own story. I did not let anyone write it for me.”
Source: The Stars Choose Our Lovers
“Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.”
“Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around”
“Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.”