W Quotes
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“Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.”
“Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?”
“Why, Reshi?"The words poured out of Bast in a sudden gush. "Why did you stay there when it was so awful?"
Kvothe nodded to himself, as if he had been expecting the question. "Where else was there for me to go, Bast? Everyone I knew was dead."
"Not everyone," Bast insisted. "There was Abenthy. You could have gone to him."
"Hallowfell was hundreds of miles away, Bast," Kvothe said wearily as he wandered to the other side of the room and moved behind the bar. Hundreds of miles without my father's maps to guide me. Hundreds
of miles without wagons to ride or sleep in. Without help of any sort, or money, or shoes. Not an impossible journey, I suppose. But for a young child, still numb with the shock of losing his parents. . . ."
Kvothe shook his head. "No. In Tarbean at least I could beg or steal. I'd managed to survive in the forest for a summer, barely. But over the winter?" He shook his head. "I would have starved or frozen todeath."
Standing at the bar, Kvothe filled his mug and began to add pinches of spice from several small containers, then walked toward the great stone fireplace, a thoughtful expression on his face. "You're right, of course. Anywhere would have been better than Tarbean."
He shrugged, facing the fire. "But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. Perhaps I even viewed it as fair. My punishment for not being there to help when the Chandrian came. My punishment for not dying when I should have, with the rest of my family."
Bast opened his mouth, then closed it and looked down at the tabletop, frowning.
Kvothe looked over his shoulder and gave a gentle smile. "I'm not saying it's rational, Bast. Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things. I don't feel that way now, but back then I did. I remember."
He turned back to the fire. "Ben's training has given me a memory so clean and sharp I have to be careful not to cut myself sometimes."
Kvothe took a mulling stone from the fire and dropped it into his wooden mug. It sank with a sharp hiss.
The smell of searing clove and nutmeg filled the room.
Kvothe stirred his cider with a long-handled spoon as he made his way back to the table. "You must also remember that I was not in my right mind. Much of me was still in shock, sleeping if you will. I needed something, or someone, to wake me up."
He nodded to Chronicler, who casually shook his writing hand to loosen it, then unstoppered his inkwell.
Kvothe leaned back in his seat. "I needed to be reminded of things I had forgotten. I needed a reason to leave. It was years before I met someone who could do those things." He smiled at Chronicler. "Before I met Skarpi.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?”
“Why resist temptation? There will always be more.”
Source: Bigger & better
“Why resist the Iona hypthesis? In part to play devil's advocate, but mostly because the wit, verve and apparent sponteneity - the daredevil quality of the Book of Kells is not in evidence in Iona. It is, however, abundantly present in Pictish sculpture, and thanks to new research we now know that Pictland has a monastic site that once rivalled Iona.”
Source: The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma
“Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?”
“Why ride a cowboy when you can ride a librarian?”
Source: Screwdrivered
“Why, Rowan? Why are you not angry about this?” She stared at the smile shining on his face in disbelief.
He laughed and sat up straighter. “Because God saved me. Isn’t that a reason to be happy?”
Source: Hide and Seek
“Why ruin a good story with the truth?”
“Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !”
“Why run? I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And finally, I run because there’s no better way to see the sun rise and set... What the years have shown me is that running clarifies the thinking process as well as purifies the body. I think best - most broadly and most fully - when I am running.”
“Why's it always my job to clear up the mess you've created? Why am I the one having to pick up all the pieces of the things you've broken? Well, I've had enough”
Source: A Song of Me and You
“Why’s it okay to draw spaceships if you’re seven, but not okay to draw diabolical mazes?”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“Why's the pavement on this chard tart all green?" my mother asks. She's never trusted me and probably thinks I've let it go moldy. "Because I've put chopped dill and chives in it. It looks better and it makes it lighter too." My father spits it out. He doesn't like herbs. He thinks they're for girls and for cattle. My mother's the only person I know who calls a pie crust a pavement. I think it's sweet and can pardon her the offense. Has she forgiven me mine? The raw tuna marinated in cébette onions is a success I regret. It cost a fortune and it's so easy to do it's soulless. It's the sea they should be thanking, not me. My own vanity is intoxicating. I've made the decision: no more raw fish.”
Source: Chez Moi: A Novel
“Why sacrifice some for the benefit of others? It’s generally the best and the bravest who choose to lay down their lives for the sake of those who hide in their holes. So why favor the sacrifice of the righteous in order to permit the less righteous to survive them? Don’t you think that’s a way of weakening the human species? What’s going to be left of it in a few generations if it’s always the best who are called upon to exit the scene so that the cowards, the counterfeits, the charlatans, and the pricks can continue to proliferate like rats?”
“why sacrifice - you can't get all the answers . It is sacrifice , If you deep essential then you have to die down in pain.”
“why sacrifice - you can't get all the answers . It is sacrifice , If you in deep essential then you have to die down in pain.”
“Why sad? Happy.”
“Why sadness was created?
So we could rest from laughing.”
“Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?”
Source: It Started with a Dare: A Young Adult Novel About High School Lies, Popularity, and a Façade Spiraling Out of Control
“why save what you can't when you yourself
have lost everything you are to your own demons?”
“Why say it, Mr. Cohen? Dammit? Why’d you say it! The pressure! You pinned me! We can’t move anymore!' thought Andrei.
Sometimes you must arrest the tongue to let your heart run free.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Why say no when you could say yes!”
“Why?' says the boy.
'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.'
'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'
He is about to answer, about to produce the correct, patient, educative words, when something wells up inside him. Anger? No. Irritation? No: more than that. Despair? Perhaps: despair in one of its minor forms. Why? Because he would like to believe he is guiding the child through the maze of the moral life when, correctly, patiently, he answers his unceasing 'Why' questions. But where is there any evidence that the child absorbs his guidance or even hears what he says?
He stops where he is on the busy sidewalk. Inés and the boy stop too, and stare at him in puzzlement. 'Think of it in this way,' he says. 'We are tramping through the desert, you and Inés and I. You tell me you are thirsty and I offer you a glass of water. Instead of drinking the water you pour it out in the sand. You say you thirst for answers: 'Why this? Why that?' I, because I am patient, because I love you, offer you an answer each time, which you pour away in the sand. Today, at last, I am tired of offering you water. 'Why is staying alive important?' If life does not seem important to you, so be it.'
Inés raises a hand to her mouth in dismay. As for the boy, his face sets in a frown. 'You say you love me but you don't love me,' he says. 'You just pretend.”
Source: The Childhood of Jesus
“Why science? Many people, with the best intentions, like to give parents advice about raising a child, including parents, non-parents, health visitors, friends, celebrities, bloggers and next-door neighbours. Unfortunately, much of this advice can be completely wrong or based on archaic ideas and practices that have since been disproved or debunked. Some of this advice can even be damaging. In addition, some parents say that they advocate using ‘common sense’ or ‘intuition’ in raising their children, but what do those things mean? How is intuition classified, when it differs so greatly from one person to another? Some people do the ‘common sense’ thing only to find out it was wrong later in life, which is why it is altogether better to be guided by the latest scientific research. In order to learn how to filter the good advice from the bad, I believe that new parents need science-based evidence in their corner. You’ll find it in this book.”
Source: The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting
“Why search for money and experiences when you can search for your mirror.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Why see the world / when you got the beach?”
“Why, seeing the misery that a supposedly good marriage could make of a woman's life, should a strong-willed young female relinquish her newly gained independence?”
Source: In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace
“Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.”
“Why seek enjoyment in reading a book when television programs and browsing the internet serve as engaging alternatives?”
“Why seek help when you can become the help! Why wish for miracle when you can become the miracle! You are a God O brave-heart – never forget that. Have faith – not in an imaginary monkey up there – but in the powers vested in you by Mother Nature.”
Source: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
“Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway”
“Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.”
“Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?”
“Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor?
[Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]”
“Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.”
“Why send him away then?"
Serena's gaze dropped to Drake's chest as she shook her head. She couldn't say it. Just the thought set her cheeks aflame.
"I know how you could tell for certain."
There was a wicked smile in his voice that sent another shaft of thrill through her. She shivered. "How?"
"Have you kissed him?"
She took a sudden indrawn breath. "No, of course not. W-why should I kiss him?"
He reached for her then, pulling her close, grasping her face between his palms. "Because if he cannot make you feel like this, then you will never love him."
She waited as his lips hovered over hers, the moon itself seeming to pause in its revolution looking down upon them with the stars in sudden interest. Serena wanted this- wanted him- with an intensity she hadn't dreamed she possessed. He held her captive with the black depths of his eyes. There lay a road to a place of sensual abandonment, but a way fraught with the rocky cliffs of uncertainty and adversity. Acceptance meant surrendering this life for the unknown. Dare she accept his challenge? Dare she throw her lot in with a man who was still, in so many ways, a dark and dangerous stranger?
His breath moved over her face, and she strained to reach him, to touch him. The relief when his lips finally touched hers was profound. Like the last time, she swam in a maelstrom of whirling emotions. Unfamiliar sounds came from her throat because of the force of his mouth as she gave free rein to the desire to press into him. She breathed him in, wanting to be as close as she could, clinging to his broad shoulders.”
Source: The Duchess and the Dragon
“Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“Why serve peanuts right out of the can, when we can put them in a nice bowl, right?"
"Peanuts taste like peanuts no matter the receptacle."
"They'd taste more elegant served out of a crystal bowl.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.”
“Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Why settle for anything less than total life fulfillment. Start by filling yourself up with you!”
Source: Modus Vivendi - Your Life Your Way: 7 Days to Self Transformation
“Why settle for being the son of a system, when you can mother a movement?”
Source: Lobizona
“Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.”
“Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?”
“Why settle for the ordinary when you have what it takes to be legendary?”
“Why settle for the small teddy bear, when God has got your custom Build-A-Bear?”
“Why settle for what is provided instead of being motivated to achieve what you want. Complacency is your contentment.”