W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why does God endow us with compassion?”
“Why does he call you Ribs?”
“‘Cause she makes me laugh so hard my ribs ache,” bellowed Ilías. Gunnar chuckled.
“Because he grabbed my tit, and I broke his ribs,” replied Hekla smoothly, leveling Ilías with a stern look. “Best to remember I could do it again, kunta!”
Source: The Road of Bones
“Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?”
“Why does he need to produce more? Production has become an important part of the school curriculum. Learn more, produce more and do it in less or equal time. It is as if the school is now a factory”
Source: Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education
“Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained. "He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.”
“Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?”
“Why does Ian think I have to kiss you?”
“Why does ice cream go with a broken heart?" Kylie asked. "Because if you eat enough of it, it freezes the heart and numbs the pain for a bit.”
Source: Awake at Dawn
“Why does it become hard to accept what is inevitable? Everything ends, that's how new things are born.”
“Why does it disturb us that the map be included in the map and the thousand and one nights in the book of the Thousand and One Nights? Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the Quixote and Hamlet a spectator of Hamlet? I believe I have found the reason: these inversions suggest that if the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious. In 1833, Carlyle observed that the history of the universe is an infinite sacred book that all men write and read and try to understand, and in which they are also written.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Why does it feel like I've cheated on him" (Viv says, in Ireland, after Reeve lied, cheated and she left the US because of him.)
"Because you meant forever when you promised him that." (Ash responded.)”
Source: Say I'm the One
“Why does it feel so good to be so bad?”
“Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.”
“Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”
“Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.”
“Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There’s a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.”
Source: Bloodlines
“Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“WHY DOES it make me so sad when I think back to that time? Is it yearning for past happiness—for I was happy in the weeks that followed, in which I really did work like a lunatic and passed the class, and we made love as if nothing else in the world mattered.”
Source: The Reader
“Why does it matter that you put off your goals for next week?
Because next week may not come.”
Source: Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable
“Why does it matter, to re-find hope,
to regain hopefulness,
again and again,
in spite of loss, pain, grief--
even devastation?
Because, my love, hope is a feeling, and
how we feel about the world defines us,
defines our reality, our experience of our reality,
how we treat those around us
and ourselves.”
“Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?”
“Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?”
Source: The Future of Us
“Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already”
Source: Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
“Why does it seem as if the poorly adjusted people – the misfits and social outsiders – create art and the most sane and rational of the human species make money? Does creating art require a person to tap into the irrational magma of their soul?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Why does it seem that God in his infinite wisdom chooses to save some and not others?”
Source: God in the Midst of Pain and Suffering
“Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?”
Source: Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras
“Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?”
“Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?”
“Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not getting any younger waiting out here.” -Magnus to Clary, pg.272-”
“Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?”
“Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of business local retailers, they automated their systems to reduce employees, and they got customers to be their own cashiers without getting paid for their labor, and yet to prove I’m a good person, I’m supposed to do more unpaid work for them to streamline their operation?”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“Why does kissing you always feel so good, huh?”
Source: Orion & Roseline
“Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots.”
Source: The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe
“Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?”
“Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?”
Source: Roger's Version: A Novel
“Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?”
“Why does life need evidence of life?”
Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
“Why does lightning strike on a humid day? Why does the sun follow the moon, trailing at dawn on its pale heels? The flakes on a butterfly's wings are not as vital or delicate as you. There are things in this world that we simply can't explain. Your beauty is unexplainable.”
Source: Her
“Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.”
“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that’s the way it goes, what’s the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.”
“Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?”
“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
“Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?”
“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”
“Why does man need a meaning to life?”
“Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.”
Source: Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers
“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.”
“Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct? Man in this respect differs profoundly from the lower animals.”
Source: On the Origin of Species