W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?”
Source: Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books
“Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?”
“Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?”
“Who would sleep with the lights on 24 hours a day?”
“Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.”
“Who would the average person vote for: a man who says you can become biologically female simply by identifying as such, or a man who says America is being screwed over by every other country in the world? One view is plain wrong. The second is an opinion a lot of people might not agree with, but it can't be shown to be objectively untrue in the way that the former's view can. Most people would choose the latter simply because he sounds less crazy. Most years, the latter man wouldn't have even gotten a look in, but we've created a situation where crazy things now sound perfectly reasonable.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
“Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.”
“Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.”
“Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.”
“Who would've guessed that by simply eliminating GMOs from my diet, I could lose 20 pounds, drop my blood pressure by 40 points, and level out my blood sugar levels...all in just 21 days!”
“Who would've though that such a sweet, sensitive boy as that would end up scrapping with your middle brother? That now, more than twenty years down the line, they'd find it so painful even to be in the same room, barely able to exchange more than a handful of words?”
Source: Human Acts
“Who would’ve thought that Mr. Looney Bin had such a soft side. I thought that I would for sure be dead by now.”
He sits up until his lips almost brush mine. “I’d never kill you, because I don’t want to live in a world where you don’t exist.” Pressing his lips to mine, he cups my face to take me closer to him. And that feeling returns.
That feeling I’ve refused to name so far. The feeling of those things flying around in my belly. I dare to do it now. Because I can no longer lie to myself. For the first time in my life, I think I know what the movies are always talking about.
Butterflies.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?”
“Who would want him? he asks himself. Certainly not Ahana, who's funny, bright and so beautiful that it hurts.”
Source: Hold My Hand
“Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.”
“Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?”
Source: Disarming
“Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.”
“Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?”
“Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?”
“Who would want to work with someone who characterizes the world as some zero sum, chronically unfair game, with injustice at every turn? How can this mindset possibly serve you, your friends, your family, or your colleagues? Is it good for your financial, professional, or mental health? Is it something to teach children? Do you want your neighbors, the world even, to engage in this manner every time something doesn’t turn out their way?”
Source: Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
“Who would willingly walk the path of love if they knew its cost without first being seduced by its promise?”
Source: Together
“Who would willingly walk the path of love without first being seduced by its promise?”
Source: Together
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
Source: Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition
“Who would you be but who you are?”
“Who would you be if you'd then devoted the impossible time and effort to actually achieving your absolute full potential?”
Source: Upgrade Soul
“Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?”
“Who would you be if you had somehow avoided every tenacious impediment in the invisible bacterial obstacle course of your daily life? Or what if, through some miracle of science...there was a way to cleanse the detritus that has cumulatively contaminated your genes since before you were even born? Who would you be today? Would you be the same person; the same unique individual? Or would you be something more?”
Source: Upgrade Soul
“Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.”
“Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?”
Source: I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to find all the love, approval and appreciation you ever wanted
“Who would you be without your story?”
“Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?”
“Who would you impress if the world was blind?”
“Who would you rather buy your Duck Soup from, me or some other guy? OK fine, but what if that other guy is SOLD OUT? Then what? What do you mean you'll just go to Popeyes for a Spicy Chicken Sandwich?!”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“Who would you say are the ten most powerful people in the FAYZ, Edilio?”
Edilio raised a skeptical eyebrow. “Really?”
“Yes.”
“Number one is Albert,” Edilio said. “Then Caine. Sam. Lana.” He thought about it for a moment longer and said, “Quinn. Drake, unfortunately. Dekka. You. Me. Diana.”
Astrid folded her arms in front of her. “Not Brianna? Or Orc?”
“They’re both powerful, sure. But they don’t have the kind of power that moves other people, you know? Brianna’s cool, but she’s not someone who other people follow. Same with Jack. More so with Orc.”
Source: Fear
“Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?”
“Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.”
“Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?”
“Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?”
“Who wouldn’t appreciate maintenance free, guaranteed fresh, organic and self-cleaning relationships! We want the happily ever after of fairy tales and the conflict-free marriages that only exist in televised fantasies. Real relationships take time, energy, and daily care and feeding”
Source: Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time
“Who wouldn’t choose to be the best version of themselves possible? People, by nature, are narcissistic.” He straightened his tie and jacket as if to support his argument.”
Source: Alice
“Who wouldn't want to gather every part of this woman as close as possible? To consume her fire? Who wouldn't die trying to earn her loyalty?”
Source: It Happened One Summer
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?”
“Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.”
“Who wouldn't want to be in Scream? I was sitting on set thinking, "Aren't I supposed to be watching this movie? I don't think I'm supposed to be here." I never could have imagined myself on screen with Neve Campbell, screaming. It just didn't make sense.”
“Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit?”
“Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!”
“Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?”