W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why can't a woman be more like a man?”
“Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?”
“Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?”
“Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.”
“Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?”
“Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?”
Source: Nanny Returns: A Novel
“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”
Source: The wind in the willows
“Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.”
“Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?”
“Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.”
“Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?”
“Why can't I be naked baby?!”
“Why can't I be the adorable one?”
“Why can't I beat up John Cena?”
“Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.”
“Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month. That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it-- We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace. The Clave can screw itself.”
“Why can't I just eat my waffle?”
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”
Source: Anya's Ghost
“Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.”
“Why can't I say anything normal?”
“Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.”
“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
Source: Just Kids
“Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.”
“Why can't love be a fairy tale?”
“Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
“Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.”
Source: Bingo
“Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?”
Source: The Middle Ground
“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”
Source: The Good Soldier
“Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?”
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
Source: The Camel Club
“Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?”
“Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.”
“Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
“Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.”
“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris
“Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?”
“Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?”
“Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?”
“Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?”
“Why can't the investment firm of I've Got More Than You'll Ever Have and I'm Laughing at You About It not build a highway or two if they think it might be a valuable investment? "Well, because then they own it and they can restrict who uses it!" And you think the government doesn't? (laughing) You talk about government owning and restricting people on things? The government restricts what you can say, they restrict what you can watch, they restrict now what you can eat, they restrict what your health care is gonna be, and you're worried about them restricting roads!”
“Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”
“Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?”
“Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.”
Source: Rules
“Why can't there be love that never gets tired?”
“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"”
“Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.”
“Why can't we all just get along?”
“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”
Source: A Passage to India