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 think the face has turned away which only looked elsewhere?”
“Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?”
“Why do we tolerate this industry? One reason may sound familiar: in rehab, one feels that one is doing something, taking on a life-changing intervention whose exorbitant expense ironically reinforces the impression that epochal changes must be just around the corner. It is marketed as the sort of cleansing experience that can herald the dawn of a new era. How many of us have not indulged this fantasy at one time or another—the daydream that if we could just put our lives “on pause” for a while and retreat somewhere pastoral and lovely, we could finally make sense of all our problems? Alas, the effect is temporary at best. Many patients begin using again soon after they emerge from rehab, often suffering repeated relapses. The discouragement that follows these failures can magnify the desperation that originally brought them to help’s door. What’s especially shocking is how the rehab industry responds to these individuals: they simply repeat their failed treatments, sometimes dozens of times. Repeat stays in rehab are very common, and readmission is almost always granted without any special consideration or review. On second and subsequent stays, the same program is offered, including lectures previously attended.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.”
“Why do we treat the fleeting day
with so much needless fear and sorrow?
It's in its nature not to stay:
Today is always gone tomorrow.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Why do we try so hard to destroy all that our planet gave us to enjoy?”
“Why do we try so hard to destroy all that our planet gave us to enjoy?”
― Anthony Merrydew”
“Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.”
“Why do we try to look for sharks? Why do we try to please the sharks that hurt us, hold us back, and keep us from our destinies?”
Source: Shark Proof: How to Deal with Difficult People
“Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.”
“Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.”
“Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then try to push? Once, I was at a restaurant with a large group of people and the waitress kept touching me. It was really fucking annoying because I don't want to be touched like that unless we are in a sexual relationship. Every time she passed by, she would rub my shoulders or run her hand down my arm and I kept getting more and more irritated but I said nothing. I never do. Do my boundaries exist if I don't voice them? Can people not see my body, the mass of it, as one very big boundary? Do they not know how much effort went into this?
Because I am not a touchy-feely person, I always feel this light shock, this surprise, really, when my skin comes into contact with another person's skin. Sometimes that shock is pleasant, like Oh, here is my body in the world. Sometimes, it is not. I never know which it will be.”
Source: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?”
“Why do we want more than we need?”
“Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.”
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people? What is wrong with us, that we think a thing like that can be right?”
Source: Just Mercy
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people?”
Source: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?”
“Why do we wear clothes? Genesis!”
“Why do we wear them? They're so painful.”
“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.”
Source: The Instructions
“Why do we wish on faraway stars?
Because our desires seem out of reach.
Why do we wish on four-leaf clovers?
Because our desires seem hard to find.
Why do we wish on coins tossed in founts?
Because our desires seem worth the cost.
Why do we pray our wishes to God?
Because then our desires seem possible.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?”
“Why do we worry about tomorrow? Squeaks asked in dismay.
Because sometimes, we forget how brave we are today.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Spectacular Supernova
“Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.”
“Why do we write? A chorus erupts.
Because we cannot simply live.”
Source: Devotion
“Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?”
“Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.”
Source: Zen Dogs
“Why do women always feel they have to settle for less?”
Source: Black Beast
“Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with someone.”
Source: Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
“Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'”
“Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.”
“Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.”
“Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the same behavior in real life?”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Why do women say "I'm sorry" so much? One of my favorite self-love sermons is this: Resist saying 'I'm sorry' so often. You are not "sorry." You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.”
Source: The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
“Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.”
“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant results. Instead, convince them they are not stupid. Every intelligent woman knows outward beauty is a nip, tuck, chemical peel or diet away. If you don't like it, fix it.”
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “I have a headache!” and other people are like, “Yeah, whatever. Everybody gets headaches.” But your headache is not a regular headache, it’s a serious headache, so you say, “My brain is on fire!” to try to help these people understand that this is a headache that needs attention! That’s a metaphor, right? And you use it so that you can be understood. Now let’s say you want to take those same imagistic principles but apply them to a much more complex idea than having a headache, like, for instance, the yearning that one feels for one’s dreams. And you can see the dream but you can’t cross the bay to get to the green light that embodies your dream. And you want to talk about how socio-economic class in America is a barrier – a bay-like barrier, some would say – that stands between you and the green light and makes that gap unbridgeable. Now, you can just talk about that stuff directly, but when you talk about it symbolically, it becomes more powerful, because instead of being abstract it becomes kind of observable…. So I think that’s why.”
“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”
“Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?”
Source: Declaration
“Why do you all push us around?”
Source: My Story
“Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? - 3rd Leaflet of the White Rose”
Source: The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.”
Source: Missing in Death
“Why do you always have to think so much until you’ve twisted something that was good into something bad?”
Source: Nightfall
“Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?”
“Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?”
“Why do you always wear black?”
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. “I’m in mourning for my life. I’m unhappy.”
Source: No Night is Too Long
“Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.”