W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?”
“Why need we weep over parts of our life? the whole of it calls for tears: new miseries assail us before we have freed ourselves from the old ones. You, therefore, who allow them to trouble you to an unreasonable extent ought especially to restrain yourselves, and to muster all the powers of the human breast to combat your fears and your pains. Moreover, what forgetfulness of your own position and that of mankind is this? You were born a mortal, and you have given birth to mortals: yourself a weak and fragile body, liable to all diseases, can you have hoped to produce anything strong and lasting from such unstable materials? Your son has died: in other words he has reached that goal towards which those whom you regard as more fortunate than your offspring are still hastening. this is the point towards which move at different rates all the crowds which are squabbling in the law courts, sitting in the theaters, praying in the temples. Those whom you love and those whom you despise will both be made equal in the same ashes.”
“Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Why, Neph, do they live on? Isn’t it better to be dead, to die quickly and with some honour than to be worked and beaten to death like a beast?”
“No,” Neph answered shortly.
“I don’t understand. I would die and welcome the dark lord Osiris.”
“No, you wouldn’t,” Neph said.
“But I tell you I would!”
“Ah, yes, you tell me that. When life is full and sweet and young, as it is with a prince of the Great House, then the thought of surrendering it becomes an easy abstraction. You have so much life that you can be prodigal with it, Moses. But when life hangs by a thread, then by all the gods that be, it is nothing you give up easily! Life is the reason for life, as you will some day learn, and reason enough, you may be sure.”
Source: Moses The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt
“Why?”. Neurological research shows that merely wondering about an interesting question activates regions of the brain linked to reward-processing. Curiosity—the act of wondering—feels good in and of itself, and thus, questions beget more questions. Think of curiosity as a condition—“like an itch,” says the neuroscientist Charan Ranganath.”
Source: The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead
“Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.”
“Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.”
“Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.”
“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?”
“Why not accept this illusion in all its glory and as it is: real that cannot be more real regardless of all the “tricks” we think it pulled on us? Without all the devices and “instruments” the Universal Mind or the Being “pulled off” to “create reality,” we would not be able to experience all the beauty, glory, and miracles of existence. This illusion is the noblest thing reality can do for us. We must accept that we are real regardless of our awareness of what constitutes reality. Our knowledge does not make us less real. Our awareness shall not create more distance between us and the world. Quiet to the contrary, our awareness shall be a bridge for a fuller life and connection to the Ultimate source from which everything originates. This Source is not only the source of Everything but also the Source of peace and bliss. Even on an individual level, this realization leads to a better connection with oneself in light of the ultimate Oneness of Everything. Oneness is bliss in peace and peace in bliss.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Why not admit that other people are always
Organic to the self, that a monologue
Is the death of language and that a single lion
Is less himself, or alive, than a dog and another dog?
With vision but it is vision builds the eye;
And in a sense the children kill their parents
But do the parents die?
And the beloved destroys like fire or water
But water sculpts and fire refines
And if you are going to read the testaments of cynics
You must read between the lines.”
Source: Autumn Journal
“Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.”
“Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.”
“Why not?” and “So what?” form a pair of wings. One lifts you into new experiences. The other shields you from unnecessary worry and fear.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“Why not?" Ask God to bless you. He has enough blessings for every one.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.”
“Why not be a man and fight like a man.”
“Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
“Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
“Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?”
“Why not? Carry him around in a suitcase. People say, Where's your husband? all you do is open you bag, yell, Here he is! Like a silver cornet. Take him outa his case any old hour, play a tune, stash him away. Keep a little sandbox for him on the back porch.”
Source: The Dwarf
“Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.”
“Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?”
“Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.”
“Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?”
“Why not do more of what you're passionate about?”
Source: Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
“Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!”
“Why not? Do you like him?” Magnus’s eyes gleamed. “He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.”
Source: City of Glass
“Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.”
Source: Speak
“Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.”
“Why not eat what you like to drink?”
Source: 50 easy recipes for cooking with beer: Why not eat what you like to drink?
“Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.”
“Why not give a try?
Why you are shy, shameful, afraid and so on and so on?
- Give a try!”
Source: How to Talk to Anyone
“Why not give Christianity a trial?”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married."
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very.... small and... lively gerbil? With braces?”
Source: American Psycho
“Why not go and see what there was to this? Why not be the first Negro to try it out? Sure, it was taking a chance, but think of getting white in three days! No more jim crow. No more insults. As a white man he could go anywhere, be anything he wanted to be, do most anything he wanted to do, be a free man at last...”
Source: Black No More
“Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'”
“Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?”
“Why not hate everybody? he said. It's a good and sound philosophical position.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Why not have safety from this petrification?” Sennin expressed, “Why go out and become sand and die?”
Dorothy grabs her arm with her right arm and pulls her arm back. Sennin sees the rot up to her neck.
Dorothy said, “Those who sacrifice liberty for security will ultimately sacrifice both liberty and security.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.”
“Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier”
“Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?”
“Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“Why not imagine yourself successful?”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life
“Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right.”