W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much
In love, people happen to say too much,
But for me, words do not work as my crutch
I reminisce the time I fell in love,
As my remaining days go passing by
I’ve realised the only love I now feel
The unrequited, as the end draws nigh
But what was so unusual about you?
An epiphany unveiled at one sunrise:
In darkness ere, I had craved for light
Yet stars were situated in your eyes
It was in the moment I gazed upon
A face fashioned by the hands of nature
There isn’t much left to my regret now,
As lost moments cannot be recaptured.”
“Why shall we talk?
We talk to enrich our children’s vocabulary, and to let them use their vocabulary balance so their language grows, and their balance of words doubles along with their self confidence.”
“Why share LGBTQAI+ literature with all children? Because, we argue, it's an issue of basic human rights - rights that all of us deserve. We no longer hesitate to share books about other forms of diversity: race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, language, women's issues, and more. Why are we still hesitant to share books about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and nontraditional family structures with all children?”
Source: LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for All
“Why,' she asked Bryce, 'is Hunt Athalar your roommate?'
'He was booted from the 33rd for his questionable fashion sense,' she said munching on the croissant. 'I told him his boring black clothes don't bother me, and let him stay here.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Why?" She asked in a confused whisper. "Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal?"
"Because fate drove me to you.”
Source: Lust
“Why, she's as mild as a flower! She ain't hurt nobody! Now git in the kitchen and git some chicory!”
“Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”
Source: Pope Joan
“Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.”
“Why shine, when there's nothing to shine on?”
“Why shoot something once when you can shoot it fifty times?”
Source: Stormblood
“Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.”
“Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?”
“Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?”
“Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?”
“Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?”
“Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?”
Source: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?” Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears. “Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.”
“Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.”
“Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?”
“Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.”
“Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?”
“Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.”
“Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.”
“Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?”
“Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?”
“Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
“Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!”
“Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
“Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?”
“Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.”
“Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?”
Source: Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader
“Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.”
“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?”
“Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".”
“Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?”
Source: Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
“Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.”
“Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.”
“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
“Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?”
“Why should anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump think, oh, well, I should think he is legitimate now?”
“Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?”
“Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?”
“Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.”
Source: The Sane Society
“Why should anyone buy anything from you if you don't believe in your product? There’s a reason why confident salespeople are successful.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Why should anyone care about [esoteric wisdom]? Because it challenges our understanding of God, and dares us to transform ourselves. It shatters childish theological images, and discovers a God called Infinity-God as infinity, transforms Gender and Personality."- Daniel Matt, a scholar of Kabbalah and Professor at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley”
“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”
Source: I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith