W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.”
“Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.”
“Who would have ever thought going to a library would be so scary?”
Source: Sacrifice: A New Dawn
“Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.”
“Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.”
“Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.”
Source: Say Uncle: Poems
“Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?”
Source: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?”
Source: The Gargoyle
“Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?”
“Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.”
“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
“Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.”
“Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.”
“Who would have thought. A "hey" trouble will change. All I know about everything? - Bliss Point”
Source: Coming Home
“Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.”
“Who would have thought God would send a bad man and a sheriff just to save Prince?”
Source: Montana Sky Christmas
“Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.”
Source: At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl
“Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)
“Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?”
Source: Lucky
“Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.”
“Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?”
“Who would have thought that freedom has the shape and weight of the chains?”
Source: Svetioničar - Pomračenje
“Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.”
“Who would have thought that the self-righteous human girl couldn't read?'
'Keep your damned mouth shut about it.'
'Me? I wouldn't dream of telling anyone. Why waste that kind of knowledge on petty gossip?'
If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. 'You're a disgusting bastard.'
'I'll have to ask Tamlin if that kind of flattery won his heart.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?”
“Who would have thought that words could hold so much power, to stir so much hatred that it would eventually lead to genocide? I, for one, had always believed that we, the human race, were better than that.”
Source: No Woman's Land
“Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?”
“Who would have thought the dumb simple-minded Nevaeh, would get the best of me? Nevertheless, as you know I will get her, I will get everything she has, wants, and wishes. We will get to her soon!
That is a promise!”
Source: Nevaeh The Miracle
“Who would have thought three separate peaces so irreconcilable?”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Who would have thought wearing masks would turn out to be a symbol of liberalism? Who would have thought that masks would be debated so vigorously on par with immigration, tax and foreign policy?”
“Who would have thought when they came to the fight?
That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.”
“Who would I be today if I didn’t let the world dictate who I was for so long? And is there even time for me to become me? Or have I already arrived at a personality, as fake as it may be?”
Source: Fem
“Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.”
“Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.”
“Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.”
“Who would keep my jacket on the side of the road with a bilingual note from the universe? A little insane, but a starry-eyed dreamer with a vision of making this world fairytale good.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.”
“Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.”
“Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.”
“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?”
“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.”
Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters
“Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?”
“Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?”
“Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?”
“Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?”
“Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?”
“Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?”
Source: A room of one's own and other essays
“Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?”
Source: Touched With Fire