W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“Why fit in when you're born to stand out?”
“Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?”
“Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.”
“Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.”
“Why follow OSHA law when it is cheaper to pay the fine in the unlikely event that you are investigated.”
“Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.”
“Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.”
Source: Self-realization Magazine
“Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.”
“Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.”
Source: I Have Landed
“Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.”
“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”
“Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.”
“Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.”
“Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun”
Source: Just One Day
“Why get thinner, when you can get more dinner”
“Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop… When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.”
“Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can’t afford to let him go.”
The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.
“Because no one ever gave me a choice.”
Source: Glass Sword
“Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me”
“Why give up before we try?”
“Why give up?
Why give in?”
“Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?”
“Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?”
“Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?”
“Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here.
Learn how to grab hold of luck,
For luck is always there.”
“Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.”
“Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?”
“Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.”
“Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.”
Source: I'm Not Really Here
“Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?”
“Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.”
“Why go to so much trouble when Cranberry Juice, Chicken Broth, and Vodka tastes just like Thanksgiving Dinner, and you can enjoy it alone.”
Source: H: Infidels of Oil
“Why go to war when you can assassinate the key players of your enemies.”
“Why go to war when you can release a genetically modified virus to assassinate specific genetic types of people.”
“Why go with wrong, when right is an option?”
Source: No Matter What I Do: I End Up Falling for You
“Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.”
“Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.”
Source: Searching for God
“Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?”
Source: The Carolinian
“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?”
Source: Invisible Man
“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
“Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he’d always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.”
Source: We All Looked Up
“Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one small man – even the empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean, even science itself.
Then he realized that it still wasn't too late. He still had the strength to lift up his head, to remain his mother's son.
And he wasn't going to try to console himself or justify what he had done. He wanted this mean, cowardly act to stand all his life as a reproach; day and night it would be something to bring him back to himself. No, no, no! He didn't want to strive to be a hero – and then preen himself over his courage.
Every hour, every day, year in, year out, he must struggle to be a man, struggle for his right to be pure and kind. He must do this with humility. And if it came to it, he mustn't be afraid even of death; even then he must remain a man.
'Well then, we'll see,' he said to himself. 'Maybe I do have enough strength. Your strength, Mother...”
Source: Life and Fate
“Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...”
Source: The Player of Games
“Why had he gone, stepping off into the dark, into the war, into a Cause that was lost, into a world that was mad? Why had he gone, Rhett who loved the pleasures of women and liquor, the comfort of good food and soft beds, the feel of fine linen and good leather, who hated the South and jeered at the fools who fought for it? Now he had set his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and wounds and weariness and heartbreak ran like yelping wolves. And the end of the road was death. He need not have gone. He was safe, rich, comfortable. But he had gone, leaving her alone in a night as black as blindness, with the Yankee Army between her and home.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?”
“Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?”
Source: The Real Thief
“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?”
Source: The Map of Time: A Novel
“Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.”
“Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.”
“Why had I ever felt the need to strive for worthiness when my abba's love was so plainly unconditional and boundless?”
Source: Like Flames in the Night