W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”
“Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?”
“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”
“Why are they called relics? It makes them sound ancient."
Qadir spoke without turning to look at her. "Jinn are ancient. Is it any surprise the things we enchant are just as old?”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“Why are they doing that?” his mother said, frowning at her grandsons. The boys were sorting the casserole into piles on their plates. “Doing what?” Eve asked. “Why aren’t they eating their food?” “They don’t like it when things touch,” Eve said. “What things?” his mother asked. “Their food. They don’t like it when different foods touch or mix together.” “How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays?”
“Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.
'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.”
“Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?”
“Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.”
“Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Why are things as they are and not otherwise?”
“Why are those characters running and jumping, and that girl character is watching and giggling at the side?
Why, when I was at school, were no celebrated scientists, musicians, or playwrights, women? Why are we only taught about the achievements of men?
Why, when women unite and come together with their voices raised, does the term 'witch hunt' get bandied around?
Why are some of my natural characteristics referred to as 'tomboy'?”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.”
“Why are those who knew him, when they pass from the memory of a young man, sensitive and gay, to the work – novels and writings – surprised to pass into a nocturnal world, a world of cold torment, a world not without light but in which light blinds at the same time that it illuminates; gives hope, but makes hope the shadow of anguish and despair? Why is it that he who, in his work, passes from the objectivity of the narratives to the intimacy of the Diary, descends into a still darker night in which the cries of a lost man can be heard? Why does it seem that the closer one comes to his heart, the closer one comes to an unconsoled center from which a piercing flash sometimes bursts forth, an excess of pain, excess of joy? Who has the right to speak of Kafka without making this enigma heard, an enigma that speaks with the complexity, with the simplicity, of enigma?”
Source: Friendship
“Why are trees green? Because of Chlorophyll. But why is that green? Because it absorbs all light except green. But why?
Why has no answer. Just wonder how and stay in the state of wonder. Accepting an answer of why kills the wonder of how.”
“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
“Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?”
“Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.”
“Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?”
“Why are we afraid of
death?
We are afraid because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change
in life.
- HDH Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivoham, in the book "Living Enlightenment".”
Source: Living Enlightenment
“Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid.”
“Why are we always so surprised when God gives us something we've been praying for? It's like we don't believe He's actually listening.”
Source: Authentically, Izzy
“Why are we, as a society that recognized there was something seriously wrong with "mother's little helper" and hippies doing all sorts of drugs to "turn on, tune in, and drop out" in the 50's and 60's, so willing to take what amounts to the same thing from licensed drug pushers?”
“Why are we being chased by evil espresso drinks?!”
Source: The Lost Hero
“Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.”
“Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister.
Cecily put her hands on her hips. "Why are you bringing Tessa?"
"Because Tessa and I are going to be married," Will said, and Tessa smiled; the way that Will's little sister could ruffle his feathers like no one else was still amusing to her.
"Well, Gabriel and I might well be married," Cecily said. "Someday."
Gabriel made a choking noise, and turned an alarming shade of purple.
Will threw up his hands. "You can't be married Cecily! You're only fifteen! When I get married, I'll be eighteen! An adult!"
Cecily did not look impressed. "We may have a long engagement," she said. "But I cannot see why you are counseling me to marry a man my parents have never met."
Will sputtered. "I am not counseling you to marry a man your parents have never met!"
"Then we are in agreement. Gabriel must meet Mam and Dad.”
“Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.”
“Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.”
“Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.”
“Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a fight. It may be THE fight. I may be the final fight. And what else are we good at, you and me? What are we going to do if we ever get out there anyway?”
“Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
“Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.”
“Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple because you attacked us and continue to attack us". Bin Laden cited foremost, U.S support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the "oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation" that have taken place there. "The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone. Bin Laden claims that "The Jews have taken control of your economy" and are "Making you their servants”
“Why are we having this conversation? Do we need to establish we like each other enough so we can feel better about wanting to kiss each other? Are we so afraid of sheer animal lust that we have to pair it with, ugh, respect?”
He laughed, enjoying himself immensely. It was supposed to be just a kiss. How had it turned into a thesis on likability and lust?”
Source: Man Down
“Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.”
“Why are we here? We're here to go!”
“Why are we here? Why didn't God just make us and place us in Heaven? What is this place called Earth we're sent to reside in until we're called to live in Heaven for eternity? Training Camp Earth...it is the reason we're here. It is simply a training camp of lesson after lesson to build strength and our relationship with God before we go home. What lesson is God working on in your life today?”
Source: The Library Room
“Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a companys existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.”
“Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.”
“Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.”
Source: Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life
“Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.”
“Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?”
“Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?”
“Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could
have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.”
Source: I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales
“Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.”
“Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
“Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.”
“Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?”