W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why? It is the easiest question to ask and the hardest question to answer.”
“Why, it’s a regular torture, Miriam, that I am always both, the one standing with a stern face, arms crossed over my chest—and the one who is suddenly gutted and falls and falls, and while falling is still arguing with the stern one, screaming on the way to his doom, Let me live! Let me feel! Let me make mistakes!”
“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state. Why may she not be as capable of heading an army as a parliament; or of commanding at sea as of reigning at land? What shou'd hinder her from holding the helm of a fleet with the same safety and steadiness as that of a nation? And why may she not exercise her soldiers, draw up her troops in battle array, and divide her forces into battalions at land, squadrons at sea, &c. with the same pleasure she wou'd have in seeing or ordering it to be done? The military art has no mystery in it beyond others, which Women cannot attain to. A Woman is as capable as a Man of making herself, by means of a map, acquainted with the good and bad ways, the dangerous and safe passes, or the proper situations for encampment. And what shou'd hinder her from making herself mistress of all the strategems of war, of charging, retreating, surprising, laying ambushes, counterfeiting marches, feigning flights, giving false attacks, supporting real ones, animating the soldiery, and adding example to eloquence by being the first to mount a breach. Persuasion, heat, and example are the soul of victory: And Women can shew as much eloquence, intrepidity, and warmth, where their honour is at stake, as is requisite to attack or defend a town.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.”
Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks
“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order. One may, indeed, admit the possibility of a retribution lurking in the present catastrophe. Doubtless some of Tess d'Urberville's mailed ancestors rollicking home from a fray had dealt the same measure even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time. But though to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature; and it therefore does not mend the matter.
As Tess's own people down in those retreats are never tired of saying among each other in their fatalistic way: "It was to be." There lay the pity of it. An immeasurable social chasm was to divide our heroine's personality thereafter from that previous self of hers who stepped from her mother's door to try her fortune at Trantridge poultry-farm.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order”
“Why, it would be such fun,' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.”
Source: Just David
“Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.”
“Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there.”
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?”
Source: Nothing is here...
“Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.”
“Why keep waiting until we become uncomfortably numb‽”
“Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?”
“Why kill good people just to get a bad man?”
“Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“Why kill two birds with one stone when you could just kill ten with a boulder?”
Source: Witch's Cauldron
“Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?”
“Why lamenting Nature, for you have done on Earth and high Heavens the most adorned works,your hues spread the jocund rainbow shine,and blissful thoughts of breeze are awakened,yet like a tainted maid,you droop and wept, sad below the bleak, barren fields, concealed from the steep views,that human kept,and a white cloud of peace in you dissolved.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.”
Source: Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
“Why learn solely from your mistakes when you can learn from the mistakes of others?”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no one ever gives me a straight answer. (The only thing anyone can agree on is that they still miss the island.)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“Why leave the comfort of the harbor? Because you are a ship captain, and a ship captain sails.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?”
“Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go”
“Why leave your success up to dumb luck or accident when you can take a stand, make a plan, and be proactive in your pursuits and possibilities?”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.”
“Why let me heal when you'll just break me anyway?”
“Because breaking you is half the fun.”
Source: Bad for You
“Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?”
“Why lie?”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.”
“Why Lila glaring at you, hombre? ” asked Rico. “Though I wouldn’t mind a hot piece of culo like that acknowledging my existence.” Rico puckered his lips, sending a mock kiss in Lila’s direction. I laughed when she flipped her golden hair over her shoulder and stared at the dry-erase board.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.”
Source: The Guardian
“Why limit yourself to just one best friend?”
“Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?”
“Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”
“WHY live as if you shall never die?”
“Why live boring, if you can make things exceptional...”
“Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?”
“Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?”
Source: Seraphina
“Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.”
“Why live in this meaningless illusion...when you have the ultimate power to break free....DEATH.”
“Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.”
“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.”
“Why live once when you can live forever.”
“Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.”
“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?”