W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”
Source: Wish You Were Dead
“Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?”
Source: Pliny: Natural History
“Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.”
Source: Compass Points
“Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her.”
Source: The Raven King
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?”
“Why do we claim to know Jesus Christ, but deny him in our action?”
“Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.”
“Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.”
“Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.”
“Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.”
“Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?”
“Why do we create priorities only to place them last on a timeline? Priority means to precede and proceed.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“Why do we cry when somebody die, we can't bring him, back we just lose time crying and feeling miserable and after few days we just find that we can't bring him!
(Note: I have Written a story about my dog which died, in the series of The Life Of One KId)”
“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
Source: An Enchantment of Ravens
“Why do we despise one another? Don't we have the same God the Father, who created us?”
“Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.”
“Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.”
“Why do we do so few when we can do so much?”
“Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we think it is a sign of strength to endure something nobody should ever have to? Why do we see it as a sign of weakness to break up with somebody who brings us nothing but misery?”
Source: Find Me
“Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?”
“Why do we elect to not abide in the teachings of Jesus, when the results offer us a roadmap to an abundant and joyful life?”
“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“Why do 'we' (Enlightened One, Dadabhagwan) not have a single obstacle? Because, 'we' are in completely desire-free state.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“Why do we even make guns? I'm not against gun control. I'm against guns, period. I'm against anything at all that is used as an instrument of death. Why would we manufacture such a thing? Why would we have a business that does it? Why don't we figure out a way to disarm ourselves totally?”
“Why do we even try when the barriers are so high and the odds are so low? Why don't we just pack it in and go home? It'd be so, so much easier.
It's because, in the end, there's no glory in easy.
No one remembers easy. They remember the blood and the bones and the long, agonizing fight to the top. And that is how you become... Legendary.”
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”
“Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.”
“Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?”
“Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”
“Why do we fear loss? Because we are ignorant of impermanence. Everything we have is borrowed from fate. And to it everything shall return.”
“Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.”
Source: Lawn of Excluded Middle
“Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story
“Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?”
“Why do we feel the need to see sex as dirty? Because if we don’t there won’t be any evil spirits to evoke and ride on into ecstasy.”
“Why do we feel the need to see sex as dirty? Because if we don’t there won’t have any evil spirits to evoke and ride on into ecstasy.”
“Why do we feel the need to sex as dirty? Because if we don’t there won’t have any evil spirits to evoke and ride on into ecstasy.”
“Why do we feel unhappy? Why does our mind feel unhappy? Why does our soul feel unhappy? Why do these feelings of unhappiness creep into our being? Have you wondered? Why is it that we can never ever be totally happy?
Unhappiness is a place we reach where we become prisoners to our own thoughts of unhappiness. It is dopamine working in reverse.
If you have had these thoughts then you are not alone. These thoughts pervade into the very being of anyone who is alive. It is the natural scheme of life. We can never ever be totally happy because happiness is a fleeting emotion. It is transient. Like water it flows each and every moment. It cannot remain still at one place.”
“Why do we fight, Kal? Why do we keep going?”
“I don’t know,” Kaladin whispered. “I’ve forgotten.”
“It’s so we can be with each other.”
“They all die, Tien. Everyone dies.”
“So they do, don’t they?”
“That means it doesn’t matter,” Kaladin said. “None of it matters.”
“See, that’s the wrong way of looking at it.” Tien held him tighter. "Since we all go to the same place in the end, the moments we spent with each other are the only things that do matter. The times we helped each other. If you think of how lucky you both were to be able to help each other when you were together, well, it looks a lot nicer, doesn’t it?”
“I’m not strong enough,” Kaladin whispered.
“You’re strong enough for me.”
“I’m not good enough.”
“You’re good enough for me.”
“I wasn’t there.”
Tien smiled. “You are here for me, Kal."
If the journey itself is indeed the most important piece, rather than the destination itself, then I traveled not to avoid duty - but to seek it.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“Why do we find it so hard to accept that life is pure chance?”
Source: The Sickness
“Why do we find it so horrible to kill a baby? It’s because they are voiceless and defenseless. The same applies to animals. Killing them is cowardice.”
“Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from drowning, yet not make a donation that could save dozens of children from starvation. We install solar panels when their impact on CO2 emissions is minimal - and indeed may have a net negative effect if manufacturing and installation are taken into account - rather than contributing to more efficient infrastructure projects.
I consider my own decision-making in these areas to be more rational than that of most people but I also make errors of the same kind. We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we can not perceive directly requires the application of reasoning, which is less powerful than instinct.”
Source: The Rosie Project
“Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem”
“Why do we fret and worry and sometimes question if God will answer our prayers when we need them? Remember, prayer is something we do in our time; answering prayers is something God does in His. If you're struggling with the wait, remember that it wasn't until Abraham lifted the knife over Isaac that God provided the substitute ram for a sacrifice. It may be the 11th hour, but if you're faithful, God will answer your prayers, and always in a way and at the time that has His glory and your best interest at heart!”
Source: All My Love, Jesus: Personal Reminders From the Heart of God
“Why do we give so much of ourself to a person. Does this person really need it? Isn't it a contradiction of life that when we love someone so much that we overwhelm them with too much of ourself? We want to spend more time with this person. We want to keep messaging this person. We want to know what they are doing every minute of their life!
If we truly love someone then we should set them free. Give them the freedom to be themself.”
“Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?”