W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
“Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed. Simply rest in this transparent, nondual present awareness. Make yourself at home in the natural state of pure presence, just being, not doing anything in particular.”
“Why chase dreams when you are meant to catch stars?”
Source: Breathings
“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
Source: Maurice
“Why Choose SLS 3D Printing Over FDM 3D Printing?
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology offers an accessible entry point into the world of 3D printing, particularly advantageous for individuals with limited budgets. Its affordability stems from the straightforward principle it operates on: melting a plastic filament and precisely positioning it to layer by layer to form objects. This simplicity has made FDM the most popular printing technology, flooding the market with cost-effective desktop printers capable of producing objects quickly.
In contrast, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology enables 3D printing by selectively sintering sections of successive layers of powder using a powerful laser beam, without fully liquefying the material. Notably, this process eliminates the need for support materials, as unsintered powder surrounds the printed object, facilitating the creation of intricate and interconnected forms.”
“Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?”
Source: Howard Carter Saves the World
“Why choose to be good every day if there is no guaranteed reward we can count on, now or in the afterlife? I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
“Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?”
“Why choose to fail when success is an option?”
“Why choose when you can have everything?”
“Why chose strife and anger if it will only take us further from our purpose? Happiness can be attained anywhere, not just in a place of beauty or freedom.”
Source: The Secret of Ashona
“Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.”
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition
“Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.”
“Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.”
Source: Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise
“Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.”
“Why?"
Coach Wymack was quiet for a minute.
"Did you think I made the team the way it is because I thought it would be a good publicity stunt? It's about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you."
Neil had heard Wymack referred to as an idealistic idiot by more than one person, but it was hard to listen to him and not believe that he was sincere.
Neil was torn between incredulity and disdain. Why Wymack set himself up for disappointment time and time again, Neil didn't know. Neil would have given up on the Foxes years ago.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.”
Source: All My Lonely Islands
“Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.”
“Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
“why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.”
“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”
“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”
Source: Orientations: Collected Writings
“Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
And as a vanquished soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Belovëd, I at last record,
Here ends my strife. If thou invite me forth,
I rise above abasement at the word.
Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth!”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”
“Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.”
“Why cooperate with the government when you know from the outset that they are not going to uphold your legal rights.”
“Why could I not leave anything behind? Why could I not become someone? Why are we so different? Why in the world was I even born? Tell me... Yoriichi.”
“Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.”
“Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
Source: Inkheart
“Why could this darkness rip the gloominess around me
Had an unknown reason of being fearful for so long
Thinking, if its touched by these horrendous winds
Will unleash my sorrowful side & my mood swings!
Aesthetically pleasing it is now,
Couldn't yearn for it to be any better
This oasis of serenity though, I trust will cast away all my darkness & dust!”
“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give us heroes and heroines like Lancelot and Guinevere, who ' knew temptation, were sometimes unfaithful to their vows,' were engagingly marked by adulterous passion? But T.H. White had already considered that paradigm, was indeed rewriting it at the same time as Tolkien in The Once and Future King; and he had seen the core of Malory's work not in romantic vice but in the human urge to murder. In White the poisonous adder that provokes the last disastrous battle is no adder but a harmless grass-snake, and the flash of the sword which brings on the two armies is not natural self-defense but natural blood-lust, creating a continuum from cruelty to animals to world wars and holocausts. Malory has to be rewritten to encompass a new view of evil.”
Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?”
Source: London Is the Best City in America
“Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.”
“Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.”
“Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.”
Source: Modern Lovers
“Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?”
Source: A Different Alchemy
“Why couldn’t her enemies die without her having to resort to her knives? She was getting tired of carefully picking all the nooks and crannies on the blades clean anytime she got into a fight…”
Source: Deadlocked Desires
“Why couldn’t his stupid wife sit at home and work on her embroidery? What was all this nonsense about slave traders and thievery?”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that horrible prebinge feeling go away. The cool thing is that we are designed so that the feeling will pass through us on its own—in time. All we have to do is sit there and feel what is going on inside of us. We must experience the feelings. To help us deal with the feelings, we can call someone on our support team. We can also express the feelings by focusing on our breath or even hitting a pillow. The important thing to remember is that no matter how terrible, feelings do pass. It takes patience and trust—not food . . .”
Source: Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
“why couldn't it have been you? why couldn't you be who you were supposed to be?”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier."
"Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped.”
“Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if she were a hippie I'd talk to her about her drug experiences, the zodiac, tarot cards. If she were left-wing I'd look miserable, hate Greece, and eat baked beans straight from the tin. If she were the sporty type I'd play her at... chess and backgammon and things.”
Source: The Rachel papers
“Why couldn't she have just admitted she couldn't handle the liquor and given up the deception that she could?
He sat there for the longest time -- at least it seemed that way to him -- as he tried to decide what to do next. Her head was resting on his groin, which had a mind of its own as it began to react to the woman's touch.”
Source: Hero of a Highland Wolf
“Why couldn’t she just do what she was supposed to do? She had done it for years with Paega. Why couldn’t she just take it like she had before?
_Because you thought this time would be different._”
Source: Tears of the Wolf
“Why couldn’t she just trust God with her future, her present, and her dreams? She sighed and tucked her Bible in her bag. She knew the reason why; it wasn’t pleasant. She didn’t feel like God cared as much as she did about her future. He might be happy with her being single forever, but she wasn’t. He might think it was for her good, but she never would.”
Source: Fanny's Hope Chest
“Why couldn't things stay like they were? - Things never do, honey - sometimes they go wrong, and then they have to be fixed. You know that, don't you?”
“Why couldn’t you give us her business card instead, a thing to nurture and not to bury?”
Source: Orenda - flash fiction based in modern India
“Why couldn't you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago, You prince of all the asses?”
Source: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll
“Why couldn’t you just live with Reginald? He seems to be managing the world okay.”
"Unthinkable,” he said, flatly. "Reginald may be more familiar with the modern era than I am, but he is also the reason I am in this predicament. Additionally, he is chaos incarnate. Before you moved in with me, I was entirely dependent on his assistance. It was at least as terrible for both of us as you might imagine. The practical jokes he played on me, even while I was still in a coma . . .”
Source: My Roommate Is a Vampire