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 that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”
“Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.”
“Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?”
Source: Summer Blowout
“Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?”
Source: The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
“Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?”
Source: Three plays
“Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?”
“Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?”
“Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?”
Source: The Semi-attached Couple
“Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?”
“Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?”
“Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Why is it that girls so constantly do this,—so frequently ask men who have loved them to be present at their marriages with other men? There is no triumph in it. It is done in sheer kindness and affection. They intend to offer something which shall soften and not aggravate the sorrow that they have caused. "You can't marry me yourself," the lady seems to say. "But the next greatest blessing which I can offer you shall be yours,—you shall see me married to somebody else." I fully appreciate the intention, but in honest truth, I doubt the eligibility of the proffered entertainment.
On the present occasion John Eames seemed to be of this opinion, for he did not at once accept the invitation.”
Source: The Small House at Allington
“Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"
I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.”
“Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and effort, as these two had? It is as if enjoying the fruits of our labours is one of life's luxuries that we are not permitted to indulge for too long - one day we have summer sun and the next winter storms !”
Source: The Golden Tup
“Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.”
“Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”
“Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?”
“Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?”
Source: Written On The Body
“Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?”
“Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?”
Source: Disappearing Acts
“Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?”
“Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution...Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?”
“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”
“Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
“Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.”
Source: The History Man
“Why is it that medical strictures and recommendations so often work in favor of food processors and against food producers? Why, for example, do we so strongly favor the pasteurization of milk to health and cleanliness in milk production? (Gene Logsdon correctly says that the motive here "is monopoly, not consumer's health.")”
Source: Another Turn of the Crank: Essays
“Why is it that men reduce themselves to one-liners and bad movie quotes whenever they get into a fight?" said Parker. "Is there some kind of script they're supposed to follow when they get to this point? Or does the raging testosterone just shut down their higher brain functions?”
Source: The Con Job
“Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?”
“Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?”
“Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Why is it that my heart hurts for that one miracle that did not happen?”
“Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?”
“Why is it, that no matter how busy we are, we still find time to worry?”
“Why is it that no matter how many strong, heroic ezer stories we find in our Bibles...we are never called to this kind of bold proactive living?”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me”
“Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”
“Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God.”
“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"
Benedict”
Source: Benedict's Brother
“Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?”
“Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?”
Source: Mercy
“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”
“Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?”
“Why is it that people are always trying to kill you?' His voice was low, on the edge of something deadly. 'You need to be more careful.'
'How is this my fault?'
'You have no sense of self-preservation.' Archer took another angry step. 'If someone labelled a bottle poison, you would drink it. You take warnings as invitations. You can seem to stay away from all the things that will hurt you.'
Like me.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“Why is it that people are precious to you only after they’re a memory?”
Source: Halfway Down The Stairs