W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.”
“Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.”
“Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.”
“Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?”
“Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.”
“Why do people die at night? Silent deaths in the night, slipping away in their sleep. As if they never existed.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.”
“Why do people do cruel things to one another? And why does God Permit it?”
Source: The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
“Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.”
“Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.”
“Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.”
Source: Approaching Zion
“Why do people feel things and go places, tell me if you know.”
Source: The Correspondence
“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.”
“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.”
“Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?
It must be that they believe in their night vision.
They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark.
But black wells only yield black water.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.”
“Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.”
“Why do people hate my color so much? Why do I intimidate them? Why are they disgusted by me? What have I done to make them hate me? I did not choose to be biracial. Why can’t I be accepted for me? Why do I have to choose?”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.”
“Why do people have mid-life crises? It’s because they don’t know who they are. And suddenly they realise time is running out. They have to fight to be authentic, to be REAL. All the time, people are having breakdowns brought on by identity crises. They have lived their lives in bad faith. They have been fakes and phonies, frauds and impostors. They have impersonated human beings rather than actually being human beings. They have spent their whole lives in a state of alienation from themselves and from God. Isn’t it time we saved the human race from the controllers, the brainwashers, the identity constructors? People can never be free until they are free to become who they really are. As Nietzsche said, “We want to become those who we are – the new, the unique, the incomparable, those who impose on themselves their own law, those who create themselves!” Is that not the formula for a new, free world, a world of Supermen and Superwomen, a transformed world of individuals on the path to divinity? Revalue all values. Abolish Abrahamism. Abolish the control machine.”
Source: Jehovah: The First Nazi
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Why do people have to die for us to open our eyes! If we still fail to heed reason, nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Why do people have to love people anyway?”
“Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?”
“Why do people kill themselves?
I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else.
And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer.
Then they die.”
Source: Aimee
“Why do people lie?' I asked him.
'I don't know,' he said. 'I don't know why we do.'
'Why do you lie to your wife?'
'I don't know.' He shook his head. 'I think maybe it's a weakness, a sign of a need for somethin'. Maybe attention. I don't know. Somethin' more than what I've got. Maybe I'm a prisoner, too.”
Source: Aberrations
“Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.”
“Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.”
“Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?”
“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.”
“Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?”
“Why do people pay for entertainment? Because they believe that’s not a real human on the screen. Nobody wants to watch someone ordinary. So the Industry takes ordinary people and decorates [them.] It makes [them] more than [they] really are.”
Source: The Summer of No Regrets
“Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”
“Why do people say,
"I'm going out on a limb"
when you can clearly see they have never climbed a tree in their life?”
“Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.”
“Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken”
“Why do people shut down and stop sharing with jerks? ... Because the jerks, now vaguely interested, weren't interested enough to listen the first time.”
“Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?”
“Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.”
“Why do people so often keep on speaking without ever saying anything? Words so often disappear furtively, as if they had never existed. They don’t stir any strings in our minds or thrill our emotions. They leave no trace in our memory and vanish simply like birds in the airy void of the sky. ("Words flew away like birds" )”
“Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.”
“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”
“Why do people stay together?’ she asks a few minutes later.
In long term relationships? I ask.
‘In marriages,’ she says.
Because they love each other, I say. They’re committed to each other. There’s comfort there, security.
‘No. They stay together because it’s expected, because it’s what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. And the more I think, the more I think there’s nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It’s immoral.”
“Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.”
“Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.”
“Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.”