W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.”
“Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?”
“Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.”
“Who never cry or cried may actually not be evolving as a good Human”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
“Who never found what good from science grew,
Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.”
“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”
“Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.”
Source: KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM
“Who never wanted, ― maddest joy
Remains to him unknown ;
The banquet of abstemiousness
Surpasses that of wine.
Within its hope, though yet ungrasped
Desire's perfect goal,
No nearer, lest reality
Should disenthrall thy soul.”
“Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
[Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]”
“Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!”
Source: Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes
“Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.”
Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
“Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?”
“Who of us, humans, at least once a lifetime, didn’t deeply fall into contemplation, standing in the darkness of such eventides beneath the constellations that are hiding different wyes and planets still hardly visible or reachable for our eyes and minds?”
Source: The Adventures of Emily Smyth and Billy Fifer
“Who of us, humans, at least once a lifetime, didn’t deeply fall into contemplation, standing in the darkness of such eventides beneath the constellations that are hiding different wyes and planets still hardly visible or reachable for our eyes and minds?
How many chances are there that in one or few of those unknown worlds, some mighty civilizations had contrived the ways to see through the past time and billions of light-years?
If this is the case, they’d also be able to descry the stories happening on the Earth… like the one narrated in this novel.”
Source: Gods’ Food
“Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?”
“Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?”
“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?”
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
Source: Holy Bible: New International Version
“Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.”
Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes
“Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.”
Source: The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral
“Who on earth, alive in the midst of so much grief as I, could fail to find his death a rich reward?”
“Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday, today, and forever- the One who was, is, and is to come- choose to bestow His loving attention upon the likes of us? The God of unspeakable glory is speaking to us in unmistakable words of love and grace.”
Source: Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe
“Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?”
“Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money.”
“Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.”
“Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'”
“who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.”
Source: Wither
“Who once rested her head on his shoulder and whispered, “This will pass,” had walked out. She slammed the door and never looked back.”
Source: The Snowflake He Didn't Paint
“Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.”
Source: Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
“Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .”
“Who only has coldness in his heart,
thinks all flowers are plastic.”
“Who or what are you sacrificing in order to achieve success?
Success at the expense of others can be easy.
Can you conduct your business without lying, hiding or harming others?”
“Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?”
Source: Lirael
“Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.”
Source: Artemis Fowl Files, The (Sp 04 edition)
“Who – or what – we’re attached to has more to do with changing our behavior than what we know.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?”
“Who ordered the legs?”
My eyes widened at the way Kyle Hamilton’s eyes roamed up and down my entire body. The smile on his face did something to the pit of my stomach. I knew the skirt looked good, but I still couldn’t believe a guy like him was looking at me like that. Our eyes locked and his smile turned cocky when my disbelief registered with him.
“Hi beautiful.”
Source: V is for Virgin
“Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”
Source: The Gates Ajar
“Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?”
Source: The Unreals
“Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief”
“Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
“Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?”
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”
“Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.”
Source: Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
“Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.”
“Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.”
“Who owns your body? You or the state?”
“Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world.”