W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.”
“Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.”
“Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the world go to hell, or should I go without my tea now? I'll say let the world go to hell so long as I can have my tea whenever I want it.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.”
“Why I'm not where you are ...”
“Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.”
“Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.”
“Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.”
“Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.”
“Why, if Daniel Haws was to take out his naked cock and shake it in your face, you’d die of apoplexy.”
Source: Eustace Chisholm and the Works
“Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!”
“Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! With one's hair flying back like the tail of a race-horse. Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard ...”
Source: The Mark on the Wall
“Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.”
“Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.”
“Why, in a world where there is love, would you ever choose hate?”
Source: The Moonlight Dreamers
“Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?”
“Why in general, when you`re putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you`re looking for someone there who is not someone who`s going to be heavy-handed.”
“Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?”
“Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?”
Source: Dimension of Miracles
“Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.”
“Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?”
Source: Listening
“Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?”
“Why in the name of God do you wear these ugly ass granny panties? I swear it looks like you could parachute from the Dallas Lincoln Plaza with these and have a nice soft landing! Why don’t you get on the internet and apply your online shopping skills while purchasing some panties that do not look like they came from your Grans drawer?”
Source: Love and Truth
“Why in the world a book on Christ for Unitarian Universalists (UUs)? Less than 20 percent of us identify as Christians.1 But more than 70 percent of Americans identify as Christian, and we UUs are only 0.3 percent of America at best.2 So, primarily, this is a book to help us talk intelligently about Christ with our Christian friends. We Unitarian Universalists actually have had a lot to say about Christ over the years as well (that is, centuries, and perhaps even millennia), and we have generally done that in dialogue with mainstream Christians. But not much anymore. This book is meant to encourage us to do so again, not just by referencing our history, but also by speaking freshly as Unitarian Universalists in the twenty-first century.
Why in the world a book on Christ for Unitarian Universalists, when we virtually never use that title for the historical figure
of Jesus of Nazareth? Again, primarily because that’s how the rest of the world speaks. They refer to themselves and others who stand in the tradition of Jesus as Christ-ians, not Jesus-ians. Why? Because they tend to be less interested in the Jesus of history than in the Christ of their present faith. Jesus lives with them in their daily lives now as the Christ. Christ is an honorific title that technically means “the anointed one” of God. For most Christians, Jesus is the post-Easter Christ, the resurrected Christ, who is actually with them now in real time—who companions them and comforts them and challenges them in their daily lives—not just a prophet and teacher of first-century Israel.”
Source: Christ For Unitarian Universalists
“Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know”
“Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.”
“Why in the world are you a Republican?”
Source: About Alice
“Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.”
“Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.”
“Why in the world would an ambulance be there except to tend to a house full of broken hearts?”
Source: American Mother
“Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?”
“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”
“Why in the world would you want somebody that doesn't want you? It's just that simple. Move on.”
“Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.”
“Why indeed does the hand experience such difficulty in rendering itself? ...It is a tragedy, or perhaps a boon, that the form should never know itself or approach anything resembling itself without warping the parameters of its being. Awareness is thusly obliteration and through reproduction of this intuitive knowing, the self is contaminated, and thereby annihilated.”
Source: Inward and Toward
“Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”
Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
“Why indeed? “Someone has to care,” she said, starting down the hallway. “Too few people care, these days.”
Source: Edgedancer
“Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.”
Source: THE SUBVERSIVE
“Why Indian students choosing study MBBS abroad over India?”
“Why, 'inspire?' As y'all can see I love things with the word, 'inspire!' Well, let me remind you that all inspiration comes from God, and my prayer, is that He will lead me, to inspire you to find the true inspiration that He will freely give to you!”
“Why invest in Stocks? Answer: 1) You can ‘own’ multiple businesses 2) Working hours are defined 3) No retirement age 4) Work from Anywhere 5) No organisation required 6) Fully scaleable - can buy 1 or 1 million shares at the same price 7) Quickest Liquidity 8) You can ‘bunk your ‘business days’ at your will, for as long as you wish, and get back as conveniently 9) All the ‘compliances’ headache is minus 10) Payments headaches are Zero. 11) Can make money on both side. 12) Get to know ‘Like Minded’ people without meeting them. 13) The kick of ‘identifying’ some businesses ahead of ‘The Aces’ is impeccably fulfilling.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Why is a bowl of frosted cereal loops with added rainbow marshmallows allowed to count as ‘breakfast’ and not ‘sweets’?”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?”
“Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts”
Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
“Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?”
Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader
“Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?”
“Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?”
“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”
Source: Lucy: A Novel
“Why is a police officer allowed to kill someone that has not fired their gun?”