W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.”
“Who knows when the day of judgement arrives
So I am treating every day as the same.”
“Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?”
“Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.”
“Who knows where and what turn will come,
Still getting acquainted with the roads.”
“Who knows where I would be if I didn't come to L.A. I probably would have been locked up or dead.”
“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
Source: The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
“Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say,
But if you let me love you
I'm sure to love you all the way.”
“Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.”
“Who knows where the time goes?
Perhaps it never leaves, only changes its disguise;
waiting for us to notice that we are the ones moving.”
“Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.”
“Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?”
“Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence
“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?”
“Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”
“Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.”
“Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?”
“Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?”
“Who knows why men do anything?”
Source: Watership Down
“Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.”
Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
“Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we’d need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought they were beautiful, like my mother did. But we do find answers in beauty, more often than not.”
Source: Reached
“Who knows why we were taught to Fear the Witches
And not those that burned them
Or those who stood by, watching.”
“Who knows why women aren't - obviously, rock 'n' roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don't want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them.”
“Who knows, you may be that close. You could be uncovering a blind spot or two away to take your career to the next height...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“who knows your silence is screening some back stage trouble for me as I have spoken truth .”
“Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer”
“Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.”
“Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”
“Who knows, maybe I'm just a stubborn jerk? Maybe the other people who do stuff they don't want to do, maybe they're doing the right thing. Who am I to say? I'm just doing my thing and being myself, and I've been given the incredible, fortunate opportunity to play roles that I frickin' care about and enjoy playing. And it might not last forever. That's okay. That's what it is.”
“Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.”
Source: Tales of Freedom
“Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.”
Source: Redwall
“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”
Source: On the Road
“Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.”
“Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.”
Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
“Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.”
“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”
Source: Requiem
“Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.”
“Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.”
“Who laughs less than feminists?”
“Who learns most from a good book is the author.”
“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry
“Who led the February revolution? Conscious and tempered workers educated for the most part by the party of Lenin.”
Source: History of the Russian Revolution <3> (Iwanami Bunko) (2000) ISBN: 4003412761 [Japanese Import]
“Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]”
“Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.”
“Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?”
Source: Lionel Asbo: State of England
“Who let the dogs out? Who, who.”
“Who let you in?” The boy didn’t look at her, but lowered his voice and said, “Get out!”
His tone was fierce, but Zhu Yan recognized that his voice was shaking and his shoulders were trembling, as if he was trying his best to endure some great pain. She couldn’t help but move over while asking, “What’s the matter with you?… Are you sick?”
When she got closer, she couldn’t help but remain speechless: “Oh, my God!… Why are you crying?”
The beautiful brother sat facing the stone wall, pale, with tears in the corners of his eyes; his hands on his knees trembled slightly, clenched into fists, and the back of his hands was dripping with blood. On the stone wall in front of him, one by one densely packed, there was full of his bloody palm prints!”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜