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 words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
Source: THE DEAD (Modern Classics Series)
“Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?”
Source: BRING ME A UNICORN
“Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!”
“Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are?”
“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“Why is it that young people always like to write poetry about being old and tired?”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?”
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
“Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.”
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.”
“Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?”
Source: Nile Shadows
“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”
Source: Crown Duel
“Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?”
“Why is it they say you always hurt the ones you love? Because you know exactly how to do it.”
Source: With Malice
“Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Why is it, Waldemar," I would ask him, "that whenever something here is so beautiful, I just want to die?" "Because it reminds you of the other place," Waldemar would say to me. "The most beautiful place of all.”
Source: Homesick for Another World
“Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.”
“Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?”
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young activists prefer “DIY activism” – making art, changing their own consumer habits, making their own products rather than buying corporate ones. They tell her, “We don’t want to be in bed with the enemy,” she says. “That’s not where change happens. That’s old-school activism. We’re all about DIY’”. Bobel sighs. “A lot of these activists weren’t even registered voters.”
Source: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”
Source: Three plays
“Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.”
“Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?
Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth?
Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds?
Why must life be this way?
It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people.”
Source: Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?”
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.”
“Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)”
Source: Bad Attitude
“Why is it when people are proud of me that my life sucks?”
“Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“Why is it, when the Muslim community is targeted, the perpetrators are not called terrorists, but when a Muslim perpetrates a similar offense against a white citizen, he or she is branded a terrorist? Isn’t this a distinction without a difference? Why the double standard?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?”
“Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.”
“Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?”
Source: Old Country
“Why is it when you fall in love with someone (and especially when you are trying extremely hard not to do so), the world seems to conspire against you in order to cause that person to be the only thing on your mind? It doesn't matter what you're doing: reading, driving, walking down the road. You just look up and, BANG, there is their name or some form of it. Then you smile, and you think of them. That's when you realize there isn't any way to get out of this one alive and unscathed, because it's already a battle that you've lost, and the war is going to rage on forever after.”
“Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.”
“Why is it when you turn on the TV you see ads for telephone companies, and when you turn on the radio you hear ads for TV shows, and when you get put on hold on the phone you hear a radio station?”
“Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon”
“Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?”
“Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?”
“Why is it women can never let a man have any fun? They just want to fuss about something.”
“They’re practical,” Austin said, shaking off some of the water droplets from his hair. “We live in the moment and they think about what’s coming. If they didn’t keep us in check, we’d fuck up the planet.”
Source: Seven Years
“Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.”
Source: Becoming Latina in 10 Easy Steps
“Why is it you always bump into someone when you look terrible and never when you’ve had a blow-dry? It’s like some horrible cosmic law.”
Source: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?”
“Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?”
Source: Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.”
Source: Rules of the Wild
“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.”
“Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?”
Source: Jewels of the Sun
“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said.
"She is a heretic."
"She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in their teachings. Rather than compromise for the sake of appearances, she has been honest and has refused to make professions she does not believe. I find that a sign of honor.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Why is it your business where I go, but not mine where you go?"
"I'm your mother," Irene said coldly.
"Du temps en temps," Morwen snapped. From time to time.”
Source: A Secret History of Witches
“Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?”