W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft”
“Why are mathematical games so universal? I truly don't know. But perhaps it's because the universe is so mathematical.”
Source: Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter
“Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.”
“Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.”
“Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Why are most chess masters under 30?”
“Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.”
“Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing!”
“Why are my least favorite people always the most durable?”
“Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful.
If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.”
“Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place”
“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
Source: How to Make an American Quilt
“Why are old maps always burnt?”
“Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and 20 years later somebody's got it for $200, okay. That's business. But I had no say in that art being out there. It just really burns me.”
“Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?”
“Why are our lives worth more than werewolves?”
Source: Crimson Hunter
“Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?”
“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!”
“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”
Source: The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
“Why are people getting on elevators shocked to find people getting off elevators?”
“Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?”
“Why are people okay with not walking?
Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop?
What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home?
Does Bobeh not get bored now that she can't kill time watching people walk on the streets?
What happened to my sister who lived her life outside; going to college with her friends, walking long distances to make umpteen visits to her tailor?
I miss playing hopscotch on the streets.
I miss walking in the courtyards and the run to buy kyencza.
Why can't I play hide-and-seek in with Mogli's daughter in our courtyard again?
Who walks in the by-lanes, on the bridges, outside the school?
Who can walk to the bakeries?
These are not built for walking.”
Source: Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
“Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.”
“Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.”
“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but I do not remember anybody being killed due to the tolerance of difference, to relativism; ethically relativism does not seem to be such an awful thing, really.”
“Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?”
“Why are people so evil to each other? We need to spread good in the
world, not evil.”
Source: Last Seen in Lapaz
“Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.”
Source: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
“Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.”
“Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.”
“Why are people so unkind?”
“Why are people so worried that Elon Musk bought Twitter? Don't they know that the corporate world bought their politics long ago?”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need?”
“Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.”
“Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?”
“Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?”
Source: Philosophical Explanations
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”
Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)
“Why are police body cameras designed to conceal that they are turned off?”
“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.”
“Why are pretty girls always so stupid?” he grunted.
“Hey! I don’t know whether to be offended or complimented by that,” I joked.
“See? Stupid.”
Source: Caged Wolf
“Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?”
Source: Her Unwelcome Inheritance
“Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.”
“Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."”
“Why are so many Americans for male circumcision but against female circumcision? Both are equally cruel and barbaric traditions.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .”
“Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?”
Source: Living in the End Times