W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?”
Source: Pew
“Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?”
Source: A Lady Never Surrenders
“Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of course, always for a good cause. It was part of his sense of service. He believed in what he did, and thus the morality of it was assured, and everything else fell into place. It was all right to lie and dissemble for the right causes. It was part of service, loyalty to the President, not to the nation, not to colleagues, it was a very special bureaucratic-corporate definition of integrity; you could do almost anything you wanted as long as it served your superior.”
Source: The Best and the Brightest
“Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance”
Source: Any Duchess Will Do
“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
“Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?”
“Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?” I asked Leif.
“She thought I could assist you in some way. Instead, I had tried to—”
“Kill me? You can join the ‘I Want to Kill Yelena Guild.’ I hear they have six members in good standing. Valek is president since he had wanted to kill me twice.”
Source: Magic Study
“Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?" I asked Leif. "She thought I could assist you in some way. Instead, I had tried to-" "Kill me? You can join the 'I Want to Kill Yelena Guild.' I hear they have six members in good standing. Valek is president since he had wanted to kill me twice." --Yelena to Leif”
Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study
“Why did my publishing output skyrocket around 2019? Put your conspiracy theories aside, I’ll tell you why. When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her. But then I lost my link to the Balkans, when she grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn’t write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That’s about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?”
“Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.”
“Why did Nicky call me the Baby Killer?" Kiara sniffled.
"Because she is a bitch," Leontes said.
Jaeger gave him a chastising look. "She's dead."
"Dying did not make her any less of a bitch," Leontes replied.”
Source: Midnight Poison
“Why did no one satisfy her? What was she looking for that she couldn't find? Her battered heart offered her no answers.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“Why did no one tell him that loving someone who does not love him back is like him jumping stupidly off a cliff, knowing that there is no one waiting below to catch him?
"If you shall leave, then leave knowing that you are, and will always be...my life's best part."
Alynna wept as she kissed Cullan, and he kissed her back in equal fire, as if it was their last.”
Source: Marrying A Wannabe Nun
“Why did no one tell us that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love while they are still alive? Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer, “How tall are you?”
“Why did nobody else say anything?”
Source: Being an Ally
“Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?”
“Why did one straw break the camel's back?
Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it.”
“Why did parents perform all these un-repayable acts? Was it because they felt guilty for bringing us here in the first place?”
Source: Real Americans
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
Source: Americanah
“Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?”
“Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.”
Source: The Player on the Other Side
“Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?”
Source: Truly Madly Guilty
“Why did people get married seeking a way out of loneliness? There was nothing more lonelier than two married people in a room together.
- p.126”
Source: She Poured Out Her Heart
“Why did people ignore the lessons of history and their own senses, deny a law of life immutable as the seasons, and erect twisted barriers against it in their minds? He didn't know why, but they did. They wept for the goodness of half-imaginary yesterdays, yesterdays beyond altering, instead of anticipating and helping to shape the good of possible tomorrows. They found things to blame for the flow of events they wanted to stop and could not. They blamed God, their wives, government, books, fanciful combinations of unnamed men--sometimes even voices in their own heads. They lived tortured and unhappy lives, trying to dam Niagara with a teacup.”
Source: Love and War
“Why did people insist on telling you not to panic when the only rational response to what they’re about to say is panic?”
Source: I Heart Forever
“Why did people like us have to fight on the opposite side of the planet while the President got to sit stateside in the safety of his white mansion?”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get?”
Source: The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel
“Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?”
“Why did rich people waste their wealth trying to get richer in sleazy ways?”
Source: The Wolf and the Sheep
“Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.”
“Why did she keep these random items? How did they make the cut? Maybe she felt it had to be her decision what to keep, what to discard, just as it's my turn now, my decision as I go room to room, playing God with my parents' possessions. (148)”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?”
“Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.”
“Why did some people do those things? Because there have always been doers. Right back to the beginning of time, evil has existed in human form. But the followers interested me, too. Why did some people watch and do nothing? What made some watchers join the doers?”
Source: Into the Darkness
“Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?”
“Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?”
Source: The Lotus Eaters
“Why did Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg & Barack Obama decide on wearing identical clothes every day ?
Should you weigh yourself everyday ?
What is the best way known to mankind to deal with unfinished corporate tasks ?
What are the best foods for corporate success ?
If you don’t know even one of these answers for sure then you risk working seriously below your potential & will never be as successful & as rich as you have the opportunity to be”
Source: The Corporate Willpower Book
“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.”
“Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.”
“Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.”
Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)
“Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?”
“Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?”
Source: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
“Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.”
“Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing”
“Why did the city's most notable attraction have to be so "bonery?”
Source: Jay's Gay Agenda
“Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?”
“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”
“Why did the fire not consume me? Why is suffering so arbitrary? If God exists, He is surely cruel. He is the old and terrible God of Moses, the God of Abraham. But the most logical conclusion is that He does not exist at all.”
Source: Restoration