W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.”
“Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?”
“Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.”
“Why is everything so easy for me?”
“Why is everything that is bad for me feel so good?”
“Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.”
“Why is face so important? Face represents one’s self-esteem, reputation, status, and dignity. Face is social currency.”
Source: Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust
“Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Why is fear part of earth life? Perhaps our Heavenly Father’s greatest hope is that through our fears we may choose to turn to Him. The uncertainties of earth life can help to remind each of us that we are dependent on Him. But that reminder is not automatic. It involves our agency. We must choose to take our fears to Him, choose to trust Him, and choose to allow Him to direct us. We must make these choices when what we feel most inclined to do is to rely more and more on our own frantic and often distorted thinking.”
“Why is feeling something for someone a weakness?”
“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?”
Source: I Love Dick
“Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.”
“Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.”
“Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.”
“Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?”
“Why is hard to believe than to doubt?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Why is he following me? Why are you following me?” He grabbed her arm. “D’Sayre is trying to learn your secrets. Me? I just want a kiss.” He pulled her into his embrace and pressed his lips to hers.”
Source: Mistletoe Magic
“Why is he still here?" she asked, pointing to Tristan.
A muscle flexed in his scruffy jaw. Why did he always have sexy scruff. Did the man not own a razor?”
Source: Avow
“why is he torturing logic in order to rescue his rightness from the evidence?”
“Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.”
“Why is human cloning illegal? All it is is making a certain type of person on purpose. Can they possibly be any worse than the assholes we're pumping out by accident?”
“Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?”
“Why is humanity made to make all the discoveries? Why wasn’t it some kind of animal that ruled over everything and made history books?”
Source: The Reformation
“Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“Why is is always me? Why is it never your name they're screaming through the sun-cursed door?'
She smiled sweetly. 'Because I'm nice and pretty.'
'I'm nice and pretty,' he grumbled.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“Why is is that all people in Hollywood think, oh short, black and tattoos, ohhh he's in the music industry? No motherfucker, I'm an Author.”
“Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?”
“Ah specs it’s kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes’ knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An’ givin’ dem whut dey thinks
dey wants saves a pile of mizry an’ bein’ a ole maid. An’ dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird’s tastes an’ no sense at
all. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin’ a lady ef he suspicions she got mo’ sense dan he has.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Why is it a shame for me to cause
them to die and try to exterminate
them, tell me? You did not talk that
way when you used to come to my house
in Jeanne-d'Arc street. Ah! it is a
shame! You have not done as much,
with your cross of honor! I deserve
more merit than you, do you understand,
more than you, for I have killed more Prussians than you!”
Source: Bed 29 and Other Stories
“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
“Why is it alright to be going around, going mental with a gun, shooting all the monkeys and killing them? Because one day we're going to run out.”
“Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else’s worries?” Adrian said with a bitter laugh.”
Source: Shadowcaster
“Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?”
Source: Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy
“Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Why is it always the super fit who complain about needing to watch what they eat?” she says, rolling her eyes.
I feel a grin come on and wink at her. “You think I’m super fit?”
“That is not what I said, and I do not think you need me to inflate your ego any more!” She shoots me a fierce look.”
Source: Find Me
“Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?”
Source: Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel
“Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?”
“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Why is it better to last than to burn?”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.”
“Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?”
“Why is it called a flight of stairs? It should be called The Pekin Duck of stairs, because it's the kind of flying that's composed entirely of walking.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?”
“Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/police
officers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?
Why do cops kill?
Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone running
or reaching for a weapon?
If not, why not?
Why do cops kill first and ask questions last?
Why are police officers being military trained?
What can we as citizens, taxpayers, and voters do to stop these
killings and beatings of unarmed people?
Why do we let this continue?
How many more must die or get beat up before we realize
something is wrong and needs to be changed?
Will you, a friend, or a family member have to be killed or beaten
by a cop before we realize that things have to change?
Who's here to protect us from the cops when they decide to use
excessive force, shoot multiple shells, and/or murder us?”
Source: Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions
“Why is it, do you suppose," said Edward, "that the Continental breakfast has only to cross the Channel to be so damp and depressing. It seems simple enough; why does it travel so badly? In England one wonders whether it is really meant to be eaten. Here it is invariably ambrosial."
"It is the tyranny of the toast rack," said Maria.”
Source: Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
“Why is it, do you think, the people accept that some things can be unseen or unheard by most, yet be valid and real, yet other things unseen or unheard are judged to be figments of imagination or signs of an unstable mind?”
Source: Paper and Ink, Flesh and Blood
“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?”