W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.”
Source: Minority Report
“Why do men feel threatened by women?”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
Source: Anti-Oedipus
“Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”
“Why do men go to zoos?”
“Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.”
Source: Passionate Thirst
“Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.”
“Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.”
Source: Men: A User's Guide
“Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.”
Source: Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”
“Why do men pretend that they're not in pain when they clearly are?"
"Because we don't like being fussed over," he answers with a small smile.
"See, that's the strange part about it," I say, cupping my latte. "Men love being fussed over. I've never heard so much whining as when a man is sick."
A gleam of challenge lights his eyes. "You're missing the key factor." Macon sets his cup on the table. A bit of creamy foam clings to the corner of his lip, and he licks it away with the tip of his tongue. "We only do that when we expect our women to kiss and cuddle us, then tuck us into bed."
I blame the steam from my latte for the hot tightness over my cheeks.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves.”
Source: Camp Zero
“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”
“Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?”
“Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?”
“Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.”
Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values
“Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?”
“Why do most people look outside themselves for approval, when the most important approval or happiness comes from within?”
“Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.”
“Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?”
“Why do mythological heroes of past civilizations have a thousand faces? Is it because each one of us takes a heroic journey of self-discovery?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Why do old houses creak so much?" he asked idly, playing with her braid and drawing the silky end across her cheek.
"When all the warmth fades at night, it makes the old boards contract and slip against each other."
"A bloody massive house, it is. And you were left to your own devices in this place for too long. I didn't understand before, how alone you were."
"I had the twins for company. I watched over them."
"But there was no one to watch over you."
A sense of uneasiness came over her, as it always did whenever she reflected on her childhood. It had seemed as if her very survival had depended on never complaining or drawing attention to herself. "Oh I- I didn't need that."
"All little girls need to feel safe and wanted.”
Source: Marrying Winterborne
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Why do old people drive with their mouths open?”
“Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.”
“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
Source: Bellwether
“Why do others see the need to change me my stringers,teachers even my own family they all seem to find something wrong with the only ones that seem to completely get me are my friends”
“Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?”
“Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?”
Source: Dreamsongs 2-Book Bundle: Dreamsongs Volumes I and II
“Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?”
“Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)”
“Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?”
“Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?”
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
Source: Nightfall
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?”
Source: The Vampire Diaries: The Return & The Hunters Collection: The Return: Nightfall, The Return: Shadow Souls, The Return: Midnight, The Hunters: Phantom, The Hunters: Moonsong, The Hunters: Destiny Rising
“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
“Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?”
“Why do people always think being lovers shouldn’t be complicated?”
Source: Red Lily
“Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”
“Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?”
“Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“Why do people apologize when they cry?
Why does the devil always get a second try?
Why do we insist
on placing stress
upon ourselves
and others?
It’s like we are
addicted to
empowering evil
Hiding the roots
of our suffering
extending
our pain
Like a browser
that is buffering
Why do we
promote
displays of power
but then get upset
when darkness
rules the hour?”
Source: On The Edge of Town
“Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?”
Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi
“Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.”
“Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.”
“Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?”
“Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?”
Source: Life is a Faithwalk
“Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.”
“Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.”
Source: Don't Point that Thing at Me