W Quotes
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“Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.”
“Why did I do that?” Remorse touches us a little deeper causing us to feel disgust and pain (involving both the intellect and the heart), but not causing us to change our ways. True repentance brings in the third aspect of our minds – our will. To truly repent one must have a change of will. “Godly sorrow” is the catalyst that brings us to true repentance. [Warren Wiersbe, Be Reverent, p. 149.]
By Carey Dillinger
From Expository Files 11.6; June 2004”
“Why did I ever leave them, what was I fleeing from? What spoilt scene that I could not then endure?”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.”
Source: Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber
“Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond”
“Why did I get so dressed up when no one would see me? It is better that way, to give fancy things to my writing amd my own mind, better than wasting them on people I don't like,”
Source: Indelicacy
“Why did I get so dressed up when no one would see me? It is better that way, to give fancy things to my writing and my own mind, better than wasting them on people I don't like,”
Source: Indelicacy
“Why did i halt and weakly tremble?
Even in heaven the memory smote --
Fool to be dumb and to dissemble!
Alas, for the song I never wrote.”
Source: Poems
“why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?”
Source: An American Childhood
“Why did I have to look like hell when he looked like he just stepped out of a comic book?”
Source: Temptress
“Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”
“Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.”
Source: Hattie Ever After
“Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.”
“Why did I lie?
I hadn’t planned on lying. When that stranger handed me the journal and looked at me with his big, desperate eyes, I wasn’t planning anything. I intended to give it to whoever asked for it. But when I was standing there in front of Officer Keating and his suspicious-looking partner, I didn’t. It wasn’t some elaborate plan or a scheme. I just didn’t open my
mouth. It was like my mind decided without me that I should hang on to it.”
Source: Where Is She?
“Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will read different kinds of books, they don't read Lord of the Rings when they're 30 even though they did at 15.”
“Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it.”
Source: Brodeck
“Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.”
“Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.”
“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.”
Source: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus
“Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?”
“Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.”
“Why did i obsess over people like this? Was it normal to fixate on strangers in this particular vivid, fevered way? I didn't think so. It was impossible to imagine some random passer-by on the street forming quite such an interest in me.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
Source: Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber
“Why did I send that winky face?!” he chided himself, desperate to take it back. But he couldn’t. Text messages: once sent, always sent.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“Why did I slay other people’s monsters?
Why did I take this path?
Perhaps...
It was because someone had to.
From Blood Hunter”
“Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.”
“Why did I start duck farming? Because these are the days of decay, after the days of decadence. The first is a result of the second.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.”
Source: The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories
“Why did I stay?' Nora asked. 'Why didn't I just come home, after she died?'
Mrs. Elm shrugged. 'You got stuck. You were grieving. You were depressed. You know what depression is like.'
Nora understood this. She thought of a study she had read about somewhere, about fish. Fish were more like humans than most people think.
Fish get depression. They had done tests with zebrafish. They had a fish tank and they drew a horizontal line on the side of it, halfway down, in marker pen. Depressed fish stayed below the line. But give those same fish Prozac and they go above the line, to the top of their tanks, darting about like new.
Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.
Maybe Australia had been her empty fish tank, once Izzy had gone. Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line. And maybe even Prozac — or fluoxetine — wasn't enough to help her rise up. So she was just going to stay there in that flat, with Jojo, and never move until she was made to leave the country.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal”
“Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.”
Source: Our Missing Hearts
“Why did I think that the mask was a better portrayal than my authentic self? We can get hidden under layers of illusion, can’t we?”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Why did I walk away from something that was perfect?" They ask me all the time. But I didn't. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road. Stuff I didn't care about, so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.”
Source: The Time of My Life
“Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.”
Source: The World And Other Places
“Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why”
“Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!”
“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
“Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?”
Source: Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Why did Irish people vote to introduce gay marriage? Because we know what discrimination feels like and if we can take the boot of oppression off someone else's throat, we'll do it every time.”
“Why did it all have to go so wrong?" the heavy man wailed.
She knelt down to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Maybe it needed to go wrong," she said softly, "to bring you to this moment.”
Source: Edison's Alley
“Why did it happen? The big dog got fed. And when the big dog was fed, the little dog even got some meat in there, too. Big dog owns the domain, but the little dog can go wherever he wants.”
“Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Why did it have to be us?" Raziel said.
"It is always us," Alicia replied after a moment. "Every hardship is borne by us. If it wasn't you and I, it would be someone else, but it would still be us. Humanity, cursed with the burden of suffering, blessed with the very same. That is life, and we will always bear that burden, us humans. It will be heavier at times, more manageable at others, but it always falls to us to bear it.”
Source: A Canticle of War
“Why did it seem like officers were always shuffling papers?”
Source: Private Owens: A George Owens Novel
“Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?”
Source: The Keeper: A Novel
“Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven’s glory
and enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?” Bravo on a marvelous achievement.”