W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should anyone marry if the wife becomes the problem and expensive, she even makes life the hell while a call girl is not costly, not troublesome and takes to the seventh paradise too. It is an easy and free life. One can every week, travel to the seventh paradise than hell.”
“Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put aside that lifeless theory of relativity and help her with the work that is supposed to be the essence of life itself: diaper the baby and don’t forge to rinse the soiled diaper in the toilet paper before putting it in the diaper pail, and then wax the kitchen floor.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?”
“Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?”
Source: Autobiography of values
“Why should anything exist at all, you might ask?
Existence didn't just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of possibility; a possibility that something -- anything -- such as the imaginal, might exist.
Why are we here at all? Because this was a possibility, and we are the living proof that there must have been such a possibility. So, you might say that existence, in one form or another, was even more than more likely, it was inevitable.”
“Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Why should anything happen when everything has happened?”
“Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?”
Source: An American architecture
“Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?”
“Why should art only come from human beings?”
“Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.”
“Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?”
“Why should beauty be suspect?”
“Why should cats care about the rules of men? In their minds, everyone else here is a tourist.”
Source: The Dreaming Doors: Through the Soul Gateways
“Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Why should every child have a right to education but not food? How is free health care effective if healthy food, air and water are unattainable?”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?”
“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?”
“Why should God be limited? Even if you get Him as Krishna, He is not limited to that picture of Krishna. He can be the baby form, He can be Govinda and manifest in so many other well-known forms. You can see Krishna as a little boy, which is how I like to see Krishna. It's a joyful relationship.”
“Why should God want sacrifices when he can take whatever he likes? Why should he be given something when he possesses it all anyway?”
Source: The Empusium
“Why should half the country fund institutions that regard them as racists, sexists, homophobes, Islamophobes, and xerophobes -- in a word, 'deplorables'? Republicans should use their leverage to represent the half of the population that academic ideologues have put into the basket of deplorables and restore intellectual diversity to institutions that have become one-party states.”
Source: Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
“Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.”
“Why should he start caring about the city now? He didn’t care before. It’s exactly what I’d expect from a douche bag like him.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Why should he who is scared be careful?”
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello”
“Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.”
“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”
“Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.”
“Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?”
“Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?”
“Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?”
“Why should I be afraid for, the devil came to me since when I was still a little kid”
“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”
Source: The Godfather
“Why should I be afraid of a little blood, I bleed a little every month and never die.”
Source: Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love
“Why should I be afraid of you?'
He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.'
I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.”
Source: The Heart of a Woman
“Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?”
“Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?”
“Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.”
“Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.”
“Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?”
“Why should I be limited by my own biography?”
“Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.”
“Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.”
Source: The Moth Diaries
“Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?”
“Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
“Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?”