W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who will cry for the children when we have killed their parents?”
“Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?”
“Who will dance on the floor in the round?”
“Who will dare say he has defined art?”
“Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.”
Source: The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved
“Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639
“Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red.”
“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”
Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958
“Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.”
“Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.”
Source: Избранные Стихи
“Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?”
Source: Digital Fortress: A Thriller
“who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.”
Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht
“Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who will mourn the passing of our magnificent kangaroos? Who will remember how the bush once danced in rhythm with the thumping, jumping kangaroos who flew over fences their great tails drumming on the earth? Who will remember the big red male kangaroo lying in the desert sun, his coat almost indistinguishable from the red earth from which he came?”
“Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?”
Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version
“Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?”
Source: Spenser's Faerie Queene
“Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.”
“Who will observe the observers?”
“Who will pay for all those ghosts in my memories?”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?”
“Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.”
“Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.”
“Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?”
“Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?”
“Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.”
“Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple
“Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.”
“Who will sing me back to myself but me?”
Source: Reminders on the Path
“Who will speak for Planet Earth?”
“Who will take care of us out there?" Klaus said, looking out on the flat horizon.
"Nobody," Violet said. "We'll have to take care of ourselves. We'll have to be self-sustaining."
"Like the hot air mobile home," Klaus said, "that could travel and survive all by itself."
"Like me," Sunny said, and abruptly stood up. Violet and Klaus gasped in surprise as their baby sister took her first wobbly steps, and then walked closely beside her, ready to catch her if she fell.
But she didn't fall. Sunny took a few more self-sustaining steps, and then the three Baudelaires stood together, casting long shadows across the horizon in the dying light of the sunset.”
Source: The Vile Village
“Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?”
“Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?”
“Who will tell these stories if music doesn't? And that music, looking at it now, it's like those are words speaking to me. A few years later, listening to the songs I made back then, I feel comforted. They're like a letter written to my future self.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]”
“Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?”
“Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?”
Source: Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney ... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author
“Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.”
“Who will you be my Little Ones?
Who will you be, my Little Ones?
Will you dance for the fires of your youth
and run at midnight to water's edge,
diving into summer's heat?
Will you ride a wild mare
to any thought or dream or love of your making?
Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations
and explore all the reckless and eccentric corners
of your own impetuous world?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?”
“Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.”
“Who will you nurture and who will you doom?
Because in those enchanting twilights,
I will be the wolf, and I will be the moon.”
“Who wills,
Can.
Who tries,
Does.
Who loves,
Lives.”
Source: Dragonsong
“Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.”