W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?”
“Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.”
“Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?”
“Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin
“Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred - other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?”
“Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?”
“Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)
“Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?”
“Why is pain the emotion we so easily make our home? It’s like we sign up for the thirty-year mortgage on pain, but only do short-term leases or annual time-shares on pleasure.”
Source: How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
“Why is panic in the stock market newsworthy? That's all they ever do! It must be easy to get hired as a stockbroker: 'Show me your panic face! You're hired!!”
“Why is partying and having a good time bad?”
“Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.”
“Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.”
“Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Why is race always a factor?”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Why is race always a factor? Nowadays, people are so quick to categorize one another and put each other in a stereotypical bubble that they do not take time to know the authentic person. It is sad, and they are quick to judge by looking at someone’s skin.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?”
“Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!”
“Why is self confidence arrogant? Why is self-depreciation considered modesty? I worked my ass off to be able to have a high opinion of myself. It took a long time and many, many years, and I’m never going to tell – let anyone tell me that I should think less of myself.”
“Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are completely open to attack. When we’re sensitive, we are awake and in touch with our hearts – and this can be very threatening to the status quo indeed.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.”
Source: Shogun a Novel of Japan
“Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?" "I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.”
Source: Storm Glass
“Why is she crying?” I barked at the doctor.
“Because it fucking hurts!” she yelped, answering for him.
“Well, give her something!”
“It’s too late for that now,” he mumbled through his mask and then peered over Winter’s legs. “Plus, you wanted natural childbirth, right?”
“What the fuck for?” I burst out, looking down at her like she had three heads. “We didn’t talk about that.”
Source: Conclave
“why is she perfect in absolutely every way? it seems unlikely that the prettiest, cleverest, sarcastic and did I mention the most beautiful girl in all the lands has no idea?
well Derek shes the main character.
ahhh.”
“Why is silence so beautiful? Tell me why.
For the light that rises from the soundless world, fills you with an ocean of light, turning you into a seeker and a visionary.
Why is silence so ecstatic? Tell me why.
For in the silence is the moon, whisperimg tovthe night, in the wordless world are the stars, lighting the sky, calling you to be a lover. A dreamer in this soundless a dark.
Why is silence so maddening? Tell me why.
For silence softly bites your lips, and turns you into a lover in spell, with lips trembling at the beauty of an unknown world, the one simply fathomless.”
“Why is silence so beautiful? Tell me why.
For the light that rises from the soundless world, fills you with an ocean of light, turning you into a seeker, and a visionary.
Why is silence so ecstatic? Tell me why.
For in the silence is the moon, whispering to the night; in the wordless world are the stars, lighting the sky, calling you to be a lover, and a dreamer in this soundless a dark.
Why is silence so maddening? Tell me why.
For silence softly bites your lips, and turns you into a lover in spell, with lips trembling at the beauty of an unknown world, the one simply fathomless.”
“Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?”
“Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you can go to sleep; if you repress it, you remain tense. And if you repress sex - the only release, the only possibility of release - what will happen? You will go mad. Where will you release your tensions then?”
“Why is society crumbling, collapsing, as it surely is?
One of the fundamental reasons is that the individual – you – has ceased to be creative.
I will explain what I mean. You & I have become imitative, we are copying, outwardly and inwardly. Outwardly, when learning a technique, when communicating with each other on the verbal level, naturally there must be some imitation, copy. I copy words. To become an engineer, I must first learn the technique, then use the technique to build a bridge.
There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation, surely we cease to be creative.
Our education, our social structure, our so-called religious life, are all based on imitation; that is, I fit into a particular social or religious formula. I have ceased to be a real individual; psychologically, I have become a mere repetitive machine with certain conditioned responses, whether of the Hindu, the Christian, the Buddhist, the German, or the Englishman.
Our responses are conditioned according to the pattern of society, whether it is Eastern or Western, religious or materialistic. So one of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is imitation, and one of the disintegrating factors is the leader, whose very essence is imitation.”
Source: On Right Livelihood
“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?”
Source: Eating Animals
“Why is that everyone can forget about physical ailments quite easily, but when it comes to mental illness, it sticks to you like glue for the rest of your life?”
Source: The Apartment
“Why is that thing the size of a taxi?"
I laugh and bend down to pet my favorite oversized cat. "He's a Maine coon.”
Source: Falling Like Leaves
“Why is that we, the Illuminati, are the only people on earth willing to expose the criminality that lies at the heart of Abrahamism? Why is this subject glossed over? What’s the point of having laws against murder and human sacrifice if religions sanction these things?”
Source: Abraham: The World's First Psychopath
“Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?”
“Why is the 'average man' so far below average?”
“Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?”
“Why is the AMA for 'Obamacare'? If this is going to hurt doctors, why are they for 'Obamacare'?”
“Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?”
Source: The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
“Why is the Chosen One always a he?”
“Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?”
“Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?”
“Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?”
“Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.”
“Why is the dance beautiful? Answer: because it is an unfree movement. Because the deep meaning of the dance is contained in its absolute, ecstatic submission, in the ideal non-freedom. If it is true that our ancestors would abandon themselves in dancing at the most inspired moments of their lives (religious mysteries, military parades), then it means only one thing: the instinct of non-freedom has been characteristic of human nature from ancient times, and we in our life of today, we are only consciously—”
Source: We