W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.”
“Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?”
“Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?”
“Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?”
“Why Does Mirroring Work? Scientific research suggests ‘mirroring’ techniques works because of the mirror-neurons which are fired in our brains when we both perceive and take action. When we observe someone doing something, we may feel as if we are having the same experience.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Why does Miso soup work to protect atomic bomb radiation survivors? The Miso soup appears to be counteracting the radiation induced changes in the gastrointestinal tract. The Hibakusha have adapted their diet to match the radiation induced damage in the gastrointestinal tract. They are the among the smartest people around!”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?”
“Why does my heart desire you all the time?”
“Why does my heart refuse to accept that it can't be near you all the time?”
“Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.”
“Why does my skin color intimidate you?”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Why does naming a thing give it so much power?”
“Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.”
“Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?”
Source: Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
“Why does no one tell you that work, not love, is the real salvation?
Because if we told young people how life really was, they would beat us with their fists and ask why we brought them into this world.
[Édouard Manet]”
Source: The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet
“Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?”
“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”
Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.”
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.”
“Why does one dream of dirty water There are many interpretations, and which one is suitable for a specific case depends on the plot of an evening dream.
WARNING OVER
If we discuss what dreaming of dirty water means, it should be remembered that such a vision causes unpleasant sensations not only essentially, but also in a very dream. and that i should say, it doesn’t promise very pleasant things either. Most often, cloudy water indicates the occurrence of problems actually. Having seen such a dream, it’s worth preparing for the actual fact that you just will face problems face to face.”
“Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.”
Source: Les Belles Images
“Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?”
“Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.”
“Why does one’s best writing require secrecy, silence, and darkness?”
“Why does one society sing for peace, while another sings to glorify hate and killing? This cannot be the road to peace.”
Source: The Case for a Larger Israel
“Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.”
“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928
“Why does our society teach young people to follow beauty standards? Why do young boys and girls have to look beautiful to be accepted into certain professions such as modeling and acting? Why do companies sell fairness creams? Every skin color is beautiful. Why is our society obsessed with looks?”
“Why does our society teach young people to follow beauty standards? Why do young boys and girls have to look beautiful to be accepted into certain professions such as modeling and acting? Why do companies sell fairness creams? Every skin color is beautiful. Why is the society obsessed with looks?”
“Why does our world feel so very crazy? Why do mental and emotional illnesses emerge more rapidly than we can educate psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, and mental health counselors to diagnose and treat them? We are marinating in the soup of collective madness, cruelty, selfishness, and lies, the soup of spiritual toxicity.”
Source: The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the Work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance
“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”
Source: Dynamics of Faith
“Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.”
“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?”
Source: Merrick: a novel
“Why does she angle her head like that?"
"She was abandoned as a puppy. When the shelter got her, they found a maggot infestation inside her ear. Her right eardrum's permanently damaged and it messes with her balance and makes her tilt her head like that."
"Poor brave girl." He leaned over and dropped another kiss on her head. Chutney let out one of her love-grunts.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“Why does she collect us all?' the sprite whispered. 'Am I not a person, too?”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Why does she even bother sleeping?” I heard Elizabeth ask quietly. “You’d think by now she’d stop trying. We don’t need it.”
I paused, waiting to hear Miaka’s response. “She must have a really wonderful dream often enough to make the bad ones worth it.”
Source: The Siren
“Why does she have to be such a...such a..."
"Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."
"Such a bitch!”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.”
“Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.”
Source: Coraline
“Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.”
“Why does someone choose to hate when there is so much opportunity for love?”
Source: Welcome to the Sick Mind of a Sane Person: Deconstructing Racism and White Supremacy
“Why does Sri Krishna say in the Gita that whenever the evil forces raise their head he appears on earth to support the righteous ones? Why does he rather not bring a final end to the perpetual fight between good and evil, instead? Why should evil rise again and again? Mankind is tired of perpetually facing the onslaught of evil. Why does it not get crushed once and for all? Why does God not make it happen? This question often puzzles us.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“Why does that kid think so highly of himself?"
"Kids that think they're so smart.They're everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!"
"Yes...I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs of life! Sorry I'm so envious.I will reflect upon this. Please don't be angry.
"Ah..um.."
"There, I said it now. Are you satisfied?"
........
"Bye bye!"
Beat him.....Beat him until he reaches heaven...!!!
-random people and Hiro-chan”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 7
“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking around the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet makes us feel more miserable than any other thing?”
Source: The Secret History
“Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."”
“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”
“Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”