W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should I trust a man? Gentleman or street sweeper, I'll just get disappointed again." Percy sighs, shaking his head.”
Source: From Out of Feldspar
“Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.”
“Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?”
“Why should I wake up if not for myself? The others are smiling façades anyway or they’re programmed to feel joy. Push comes to shove we live in a fake world, pretending life’s always golly which is life’s greatest folly.”
Source: A Salmon Amongst Trouts
“Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?”
“Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!”
“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?”
Source: Night-Side
“Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.”
“Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“Why should I work with someone I don't like? What good could possibly come from socializing with them?”
Source: The Employees
“Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.”
“Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.”
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
Source: The chrysalids
“Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?”
“Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?”
“Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.”
“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”
“Why should it be difficult for someone to claim their personal reaction, especially in this time where we are only too happy to share our personal reactions about everything, no matter how trivial. Maybe the answer is conditioning. This is pure conjecture, but I think people go to museums to participate.”
“Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?”
“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?”
“Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs.”
“Why should it be that just when technology is
most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?”
Source: Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
“Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells successively in many bodies, even during one short life.”
“Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?”
Source: Conversations with May Sarton
“Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?”
“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”
“Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion.”
“Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?”
Source: The Importance of Living
“Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.”
Source: Oedipus the King
“Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?”
“Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.”
Source: The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings
“Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?
She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Why should my love be powerless to help another?”
Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?”
“Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?”
Source: The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
“Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?”
“Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn
“Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?”
“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.”
“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.”
“Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.”
“Why should one bother about the ultimate fate of the universe? One answer to this question is similar to the answer to the question about climbing Mount Everest: because the problem exists. It is in the nature of the human mind to seek incessantly new frontiers of knowledge to explore.”
Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?”
Source: Anne of Windy Poplars
“Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.”
Source: Coningsby, etc
“Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?”