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 there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?”
Source: Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character
“Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France.”
Source: Another Whole Nother Story
“Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got!”
Source: Jackie Mason's America
“Why is it that those who are the most concerned with manners rarely have any themselves?”
Source: Hook's Revenge
“Why is it that those who believe don’t fear death?
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
Make the most of this time…for you are not yet in that final line!”
Source: YOU'RE NOT IN LINE YET Make the most of this time!
“Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?”
Source: The Ballerinas
“Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?”
“Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.”
“Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.”
Source: Traits of American Life
“Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.”
“Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again.”
“Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember...but I forgot!”
Source: Things I meant to say to you when we were old
“Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?”
“Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?”
Source: Three Rules
“Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?”
“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
“Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?”
“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?”
“Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.”
“Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on Bible doctrines that we have never cared enough to become?”
“Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by Christ.”
“Why is it that we often look for the quick answer, the get-spiritual-quick scheme that will magically turn us into the person we think we are supposed to be?”
Source: Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?”
Source: THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
“Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?”
Source: The Why Cafe
“Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).”
“Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?”
Source: Revolution
“Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?”
“Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?”
Source: Ultimate Magic
“Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?”
“Why is it that when I did a weird dress in the past, people were like, 'Oh, it's niche,' and why when I do a pair of jeans that are super cool, it's much more accessible, but I enjoy doing it? I enjoy the mix of those two things. I realized that quite late, actually. I'm going to really try to express those two things at the same time, because this is me.”
“Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?”
“Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?”
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
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 that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?”
Source: The Imperialist
“Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?”
“Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?”
“Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?”
“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”
Source: The Survival Kit
“Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?”
“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?”
Source: The Idiot
“Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?”
Source: What's New, Pussycat?
“Why is it that when you follow the trail of peace it leads back to a cemetery.”
“Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.”
“Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?”
“Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?”
Source: Nightwood
“Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'
Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit”
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics