W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whoopi Goldberg is gifted with the essence of challenging simulation, which is what theatre demands from life. Her dialogue spells a confidence you’d expect from reinvented protocols lined up in sequence of selective elocution. Where she dares, the winds of protean vagaries fear.”
“Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.”
“Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.”
“Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Whore!” he snarls, slamming me into the wall so hard stars burst in my eyes. I hiss at him, the tiger in me threatening to emerge and rip out his throat, but a shout brings me back to myself.
“Zahra!”
I turn my head and see Aladdin running toward us. When he sees that it’s Darian holding me roughly against the wall, his face twists into such rage that he seems unrecognizable.
He crashes into Darian before the prince has a chance to say anything. The two slam into the ground, Aladdin throwing a punch that cracks against Darian’s jaw.
“Stop it!” I cry. “Prince Rahzad!”
The boys ignore me, rolling and thrashing like dogs.
Leave them! Zhian roars. Let me out!
“How dare you touch her?” Aladdin spits, grabbing Darian by the hair and pressing the prince’s face into the stone floor. “You bastard!”
“I didn’t give her anything she didn’t ask for,” Darian hisses back. “Get off me or I’ll have you executed!”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.”
“Whores do sometimes break up with their johns.”
“Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.”
“Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.”
“Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.”
“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.”
“Whores, instead of claiming what's rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your first born lost.”
“WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.”
“Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.”
“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”
“Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.”
“Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?”
“Whose Daddy's Little Girl Now?”
Source: Daddy's Girl
“Whose destinies can be in these stars, which appear not to those who inhabit the northern regions?' said Amine, as she cast her eyes above, and watched them in their brightness; 'and what does that falling meteor portend? What causes its rapid descent from heaven?'
'Do you then put faith in stars, Amine?'
'In Araby we do; and why not? They were not spread over the sky to give light—for what then?'
'To beautify the world. They have their uses, too.'
'Then you agree with me—they have their uses, and the destinies of men are there concealed. My mother was one of those who could read them well. Alas! For me they are a sealed book.'
'Is it not better so, Amine?'
'Better!—say better to grovel on this earth with our selfish, humbled race, wandering in mystery and awe, and doubt, when we can communicate with the intelligences above! Does not the soul leap at her admission to confer with superior powers? Does not the proud heart bound at the feeling that its owner is one of those more gifted than the usual race of mortals? Is it not a noble ambition?'
'A dangerous one—most dangerous.'
'And therefore most noble. They seem as if they would speak to me; look at yon bright star—it beckons to me.”
Source: The Phantom Ship
“Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”
“Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?”
“Whose fault is it? The one who is suffering. Which fault? The belief that ‘I am Chandulal’, verily is your mistake. It is the belief that causes all the suffering . When this belief goes away, then no one is guilty in this world.”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?”
“Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
“Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?”
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.”
“Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.”
Source: As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, what you will
“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?”
“Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Whose idea was it to replace the chrome knobs and push buttons on car radios with 'touch screens'?”
Source: Death in Nostalgia City
“Whose ideas breathe through me? Am I a thief? Do I dream my own dreams?”
Source: Johari's Window
“Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?”
“Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…
“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
Source: Britannia's Pastorals
“Whose life is it, anyway?”
“Whose life matters to you?
Who do you speak for?
Who do you defend?
How large is your vision of the world?
How much pain and destruction of others
is too much for you to stand?
We all must ask ourselves those questions right now.
Ask and ponder and ask again.
We all must ask each other these questions.
And the answers will lead us to what we must do--
individually and collectively, small and large actions--
what we must do.”
“Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.”
“Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Whose little boy are you?”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.”
“Whose non existence is necessary to the self conception of this place?”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?”
Source: My Emily Dickinson
“Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Whose reality is perfect? I mean, don't tell me someone is. I want to meet that person, if their reality is perfect.”
“Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.”
Source: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)
“Whose seal is this? I don’t recognize it.”
Annwyl let out a sigh. “The Reinholdt.”
“The Reinholdt?” He frowned in thought; then his body jolted. “Good
gods! That madman from the north?”
“The very one.”
“Honestly …” He glanced again at the letter. “I didn’t know anyone in
the Reinholdt Clan could write.”
Source: What a Dragon Should Know
“Whose silence are you?”
Source: In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton