W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!”
“Why do I seek answers so deeply? Because you cannot truly feel or write unless you know why. And so, I flow like that in life—always chasing the why.”
“Why do I speak of joy or write of love,
When my heart is the very den of horror,
And in my soul the pains of hell I prove,
With all his tormented and infernal terror?
What should I say? what yet remains to do?
My brain is dry with weeping all too long;
My signs be spent in utt'ring of my woe,
And I want words wherewith to tell my wrong.
Love's Lunacy: Sonnet XLI”
Source: Idea: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle
“Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?”
Source: A Shadow of a Dream
“Why do I still cry bitterly?
Though I know,
You will never be mine?
Though I know,
You will never come back?
You gave me the pain,
That has no remedy!
And maybe,
Only death can cure
The sorrows of my life!”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“Why do I suddenly want a scary biker dude?”
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am I seeking attention? Showing off? The pain of the cuts releases the mental pain of the memories, but the pain of healing lasts weeks. After every self-harming or overdosing incident I run the risk of being sectioned and returned to a psychiatric institution, a harrowing prospect I would not recommend to anyone.
So, why do I do it? I don't. If I had power over the alters, I'd stop them. I don't have that power. When they are out, they're out. I experience blank spells and lose time, consciousness, dignity. If I, Alice Jamieson, wanted attention, I would have completed my PhD and started to climb the academic career ladder. Flaunting the label 'doctor' is more attention-grabbing that lying drained of hope in hospital with steri-strips up your arms and the vile taste of liquid charcoal absorbing the chemicals in your stomach.
In most things we do, we anticipate some reward or payment. We study for status and to get better jobs; we work for money; our children are little mirrors of our social standing; the charity donation and trip to Oxfam make us feel good. Every kindness carries the potential gift of a responding kindness: you reap what you sow. There is no advantage in my harming myself; no reason for me to invent delusional memories of incest and ritual abuse. There is nothing to be gained in an A&E department.”
Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?”
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“Why do I talk so much, when often I am incapable of carrying out everything I say?"
His heart replies: "When you defend your ideas in public, you then have to make an effort to live accordingly.”
“Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.”
Source: In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
“Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.”
“Why do I torture myself with memories from those years? What is it that's still not resolved, over and done with? I mean, what distances haven't I traveled since then? All young people do violence to themselves. Growing up is not child's play. I've written that sentence before. Repeated sentences are irritating. Or, are they the most important ones?”
Source: Lokakuun lapsi
“Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.”
“Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.”
“Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.”
“why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?'
'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.”
Source: Talon of the Silver Hawk
“Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.”
“Why do I want to run from happiness?”
“Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.”
“Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.”
“Why do I write? Anything that I look through my own creative mind, as profoundly or sea dim as it goes, I get comfortable with its meaning and write it. I want to communicate my words to individuals as they can feel my feelings for this malicious world we live inside. Nothing is radiant what I compose, it will be dim and extremely honest like H.P. Lovecraft set to his own particular tone. Everything that I write will have a repulsiveness, have a misfortune, have a consummation that will be obscurely glad however totally unnerving that is valid with regards to this presence. Fiction to me will have sentiments within them that will make your internal soul jump inside its sea and see the art of what it can bring into this presence.”
“Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.”
Source: Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989
“Why do I write fact-based fiction? With secrecy so inscrutable, I'm looking to needle someone about someone or something.”
“Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.”
“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.”
“Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and experienced- returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“Why do I write using a vintage 1938 Underwood Universal/Champion Portable? It's simple: I like the SOUND of my words.”
“Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.”
“Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.”
“Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
“Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.”
“Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?”
“Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.”
“Why do Jesus and Mary only appear on Mexican food? Huh? Answer me that? Nobody ever sees the face of God in a California roll.”
“Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.”
“Why do large observational studies such as that of Fiorentine and Moos seem to suggest that AA is effective, while smaller controlled studies like those of the Brandsma, Walsh, and others included in the Cochrane Review do not? The likely explanation is simple: people stay in AA if they’re getting better and leave if they aren’t. This is understandable. If you are able to stop drinking, then continuing to attend AA is a comfortable and affirming choice. If you struggle with drinking and can’t make use of the AA approach, then you are less likely to keep attending. Over the long term, the people who remain in AA are, by definition, the success stories. But they represent a very small slice of the people who start there; as we will see shortly, the dropout rate from AA is extremely high. These facts—that AA works for the diehards and fails for the dropouts—are perennially misunderstood by the press and even by some researchers. Proponents of the program proudly point to the fact that people who stay in AA tend to be sober, ignoring the tautological nature of this claim. Reviewing this logic, Harvard biostatistics professor Richard Gelber said, “The main problem is the self-fulfilling prophesy: the longer people stick with AA the better they are, hence AA must be working. It is like saying the longer you live, the older you will be when you die.” As we will soon see, this fundamental error in logic undergirds nearly every claim of AA’s efficacy.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates. Leaders must actively work to seek feedback and a reality check. They must be open to asking questions and framing issues. As the world becomes more complex and global, the risk of isolation becomes greater. The need for leaders to be open to learning becomes greater. Great leaders will need to ask the right questions and balance inquiry with advocacy.”
“Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.”
Source: The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
“Why do magazines do this to women?” Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. “It’s all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they’re not good enough. And when women don’t feel like they’re good enough, guess what?”
“What?” I ask, picking up the grocery bag.
“Men win. That’s how they keep us down,” she concludes.
“Except the problem with women’s magazines is that they’re written by women,” I point out.
“That only shows you how deep this thing goes. Men have made women coconspirators in their own oppression. I mean, if you spend all your time worrying about leg hair, how can you possibly have time to take over the world?”
Source: Summer and the City
“Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”
“Why do magicians make rabbits disappear? They should use ducks. I say this because I happen to have a few FOR SALE.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some sort of evidence of their god's existence? It makes no sense.
If the rivers of blood on Stalin's hands and Mao's hands, for example, are supposed to prove there is a god, then what do the oceans of blood on the hands of several thousand years' worth of religious kings, queens, presidents, popes, priests, generals, Crusadersm jihadists and tribal chiefs prove? It's not, of course, but if bodycount is somehow the measure of a god's likelihood of existence, then believers lose.
It is clear that humans are quite capable of killing with or without images of gods bouncing around in their heads. If anything, however, history suggests that the concept of gods makes the idea of massacring your fellow man (and women and children, too, of course) a lot easier to act upon.”
“Why do many souls love darkness than the light?”
“Why do members of my party constantly go after the president personally?”
“Why do men always have such high opinions of their cock?”
Source: Playing the Player
“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”
Source: Devotion
“Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?”
Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel
“Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!