W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why die before you die? Your father and I have done something daring for probably the first time since we got married.”
Source: Topics About Which I Know Nothing
“Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.”
“Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.”
Source: The Madman
“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”
“Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.”
“Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.”
“Why do accents make a guy extra attractive?”
Source: Broadway Lights
“Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.”
“Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.”
“Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?”
“Why do all bullies think they can get away with 'I was a kid'? Guess what: I was a kid too, and I didn't make other people feel like shit! You were not a kid, you were a cunt!”
Source: Meddling Kids
“Why do all men have to suck? I knew you all sucked and still I stupidly fell in love with one of you. Why? Why would I be such a masochist? You pour your heart out to a man and what does he do? ‘Could you change the channel, babe?’ You’re all pathetically cold. You don’t care about anyone but yourselves! (Kat)”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Why do all Republicans need Lego hair?”
“Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.”
“Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.”
Source: Billionaire Mindset (for MoneyMaking Mommies): How to make your Billions and build your legacy
“Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?”
Source: Virals
“Why do all your friends talk like books?”
Source: Tam Lin
“Why do ambassadors never get sick? Diplomatic immunity.”
Source: Gags and Extracts
“Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.”
“Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.”
“Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
“Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone”
“Why do bad guys in movies always love to whistle really slowly?”
“Why do bad things happen? I thought. How will it all make sense? But no great truth appeared to me. There was no good reason this horrible thing had happened, and no reason Gus's life had been what it was either. Dammit, R.E.M. was right: Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold on to each other tight until the dark spat you back out.”
Source: Beach Read
“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.”
“Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.”
“Why do "balls" equate to toughness and "pussy" equates to weakness when even the slightest flick to the "nuts" sends a guy to his knees and vaginas can push out an entire human being?”
“Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?”
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Why do beautiful women love ugly men?”
Source: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
“Why do big mouths and little brains so often go together?”
Source: Red Country
“Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'”
“Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?”
Source: View from a Column
“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
“Why do boys totally suck? I'm starting to think it might be ingrained in them. Like, they're taught at a young age that they can be assholes because most women will let them get away with it.”
Source: Lock Every Door
“Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.”
“Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.”
“Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game”
“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.”
“Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.”
“Why do children learn about Columbus, the discoverer of America who discovered it only by accident, on his way to India, while there's not one word about the discoverer of the pickle? We could have managed without America, sooner or later America would have discovered itself, but not the pickle, and then there would have been nothing to sit on our plate beside a roast beef sandwich.”
Source: Peace on Earth
“Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.”
“Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?”
“Why do Christians always feel comfortable to bother other people's peace of mind in public spaces?”
“Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word.”
Source: Life Together
“Why do clothes never have enough pockets? There should always be lots of pockets... the more pockets the better!”
Source: Flashback
“Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?”
“Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?”
Source: Guesses at Truth