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 people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.”
Source: Hard Love
“Why is it that people never listen when someone is trying to warn them? Why must people learn the hard way?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren't allowed. We can't see, hear, touch or feel those who have succumbed to the eternal sleep, but we comfort ourselves with thoughts of a grander plan. We tell ourselves that they are in a better place, but what could be greater than breathing the same air, as those loved ones? Their pain may be gone, but pleasure can only be when it is stark against the hurt that life brings?”
Source: Caged in Spirit
“Why is it that people tell me things? I think it is because I like, liked, to drink and I am good at keeping my face quiet. Also because I ask questions.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?”
“Why is it that people who are absorbed by something are seen as sad? I can't explain it, but for me it reverses the true state of affairs. To be engaged is to be a part, to be absorbed and fulfilled. To be cool, to be detached from things and to have no passionate feelings is the real sadness. At the heart of depression, that quintessentially modern malaise, is a deep sense of separation from the rest of life.”
Source: Crow Country
“Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?”
Source: At Seventy: A Journal
“Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?”
“Why is it that people would sooner make you feel small in order to feel big by comparison when if they reached a little higher it would actually make them grow big in the effort?”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Why is it that places thousands of miles from my childhood village home send me back, opening the sluice-gates of the past? Well, we are all emigrants from the homeland of our childhoods. It may be, then, that the natural place to meet ourselves as children is 'abroad', and that includes the foreign country of our growing up and aging. So it is that the personal, physical feeling of departure from the time of childhood may merge in a special symbiosis with geographical departure, biography and geography resonating now on a single wavelength.”
Source: The Story Smuggler
“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.”
“Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?”
“Why is it that school is still always so much like school?
humour, school,”
Source: Memories of a Lost Thesaurus
“Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.”
“Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of another.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?”
“Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.”
“Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.”
“Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.”
“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”
Source: A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
“Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?”
Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.”
Source: The Incomparable Christ
“Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.”
“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.”
“Why is it that the beautiful things are more intertwined in death more that life?”
“Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?”
“Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?”
“Why is it that the difference between humans and animals is so insisted on? If this were a simple division as between different subjects then why is there so much impassioned writing about it? Why need humans insist on their wearisome catalogue of language, writing, works of the imagination, conceptual analysis and so forth, as differing them from other animals? Why do people angrily dispute any suggestion that, for example, ants build cities or that chimpanzees love their young, rather than that they follow instincts which do not include human feelings? Why the grudging admission by scientists, only within this century, that animals feel pain? Why do our modern languages slip so easily into animalistic words like bestial or feral to indicate a moral distinction between us and them? Why are internalised thoughts so embedded that set animal and spiritual at different ends of a spectrum? The answer is easily given. It is because of the still inescapably present inheritance of religious thought. ~ Peter Ellis”
Source: Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals
“Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.”
“Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?”
“Why is it that the last people you'd ever want to see naked are always the first to take off their clothes?”
Source: Sharp Shootin' Cowboy
“Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.”
“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”
“Why is it that the look of another person looking at you is different from everything else in the Cosmos? That is to say, looking at lions or tigers or Saturn or the Ring Nebula or at an owl or at another person from the side is one thing, but finding yourself looking in the eyes of another person looking at you is something else. And 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 the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?”
“Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?”
“Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?”
Source: Vegan's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately
“Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?”
Source: PENELOPE’S PROGRESS – The Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
“Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.”
“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?”
“Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?”
“Why is it that the U.S. government doesn't reward public servants by allowing them to live tax-free?”
“Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.”
“Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?”
“Why is it that there is a core of truth to the distinctive iconography of the American Revolution, which does not depict dramatic scenes of mass slaughter, but, instead, a gallery of well-dressed personalities in classical poses?”
“Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.”