W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?”
“Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?”
“Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?”
“Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?”
Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept
“Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?”
“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
“Why is it, I thought, that we're so willing to hurt the ones we care about the most?”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“Why is it, I wonder, that Sigmar felt compelled to burden you with such poor imaginations? Very well. Judicate me, if you can.”
Source: The Beasts of Cartha
“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”
Source: Morning is a long time coming
“Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but okay to go the bathroom in a handicapped stall?”
“Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”
“Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.”
“Why is it important to forget?
Forgetting plays a vital role in our ability to function for a deceptively simple reason. Forgetting allows us to prioritise. Anything irrelevant to our survival will take up wasteful cognitive space if we assign it the same priority as events critical to our survival.”
Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“Why is it in the corner like that? It comes out when I shower. Like a cursed offering?”
Source: Still Allowed: A Perimenopausal Love Story
“Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?”
“Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?”
Source: JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
“Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?”
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”
“Why is it Muslims from Pakistan or from Egypt come to America and thrive, and they are frustrated back home? It's about clean government. It's about a rule of law. It's about intellectual property protection. They've got all the talent and energy of anybody else. As new immigrants they may have more of it, so you put them in our system and they become doctors, lawyers, and businessmen and entrepreneurs.”
“Why is it necessary for your currency to lose purchasing power in order for society to function? Wouldn't the opposite be true?”
Source: The Money Problem: And How to Be on the Right Side of What's Coming
“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”
“Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.”
“Why is it now that blind obedience to governmental authority is viewed as being a “good citizen,” and resistance to what some see as government tyranny is viewed as “terroristic behavior”? Has all understanding of how this country was formed vanished? Why does the government-run public education system not teach the essential ideologies many of the founders used as justification for the Revolutionary War?
Many do not understand these ideas about freedom from tyranny. Each of us should be able to judge our current political climate and issues without only repeating the rhetoric of others. We should be able to form and create our rhetoric by using critical thinking to process all information available to determine our rhetoric and truth.”
Source: COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny
“Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?”
Source: Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values
“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”
Source: Suicide Notes
“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”
Source: So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel
“Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?”
Source: The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner
“Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?”
“Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?”
“Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?”
“Why is it rappers feel like they have to show each other their balls? It's so frustrating to me and the fact that I've come to the realization that I'm not playing that game and I'm just happy whether I'm sitting on the keyboard, up on the stage, or doing post edit vocals alignments for someone I don't even know, I'm happy. I am successful in my own eyes.”
“Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?”
Source: I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?”
Source: Black Looks: Race and Representation
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.”
Source: Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?
“Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.”
“Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.”
“Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?”
Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel
“Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?”
“Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones”
“Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?”
“Why is it so effortless for us to become lost in the cyclical drone of daily life?”
“Why is it so hard for many erotica authors to admit that erotica is porn? Everyone loves porn!”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.”
“why is it so hard for you to receive? You can't even be a Christian if you can't receive?”
Source: True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God
“Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.”