W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?”
“Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?”
“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“Why should pensiveness be akin to sadness? There is a certain fertile sadness which I would not avoid, but rather earnestly seek. It is positively joyful to me. It saves my life from being trivial.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!”
“Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.”
Source: Of love and asthma
“Why should people be so helplessly affected by agony they cannot remove?”
Source: Pomfret: Or, Public Opinion and Private Judgement
“Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”
“Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.”
Source: The Character of Consciousness
“Why should poetry have to make sense?”
“Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?”
“Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
“Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see God, sorry no unclean thing shall see heaven. Poverty is a disgrace to God. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. You can be free, you can perform a miracle if you are a born again. I do not mean Church goers.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
Source: The Sane Society
“Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?”
Source: The Works of Anne Frank
“Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?”
“Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?”
“Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.”
“Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.”
“Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?”
“Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?”
“Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge?”
“Why should the devil have all the best tunes?”
“Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?”
“Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?”
“Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war?”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?”
“Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?”
“Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.”
Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...
“Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.”
“Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.”
Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974
“Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?”
Source: The Practice of the Wild
“Why should the people seek help, where there is no help? Ask God, the Divine Helper to help you.”
“Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.”
“Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.”
“Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?”
“Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?”
“Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV
“Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.”
“Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?”
“Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?”
“Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests?
Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?
Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts?
Or kings be breakers of their own behests?
But no perfection is so absolute,
That some impurity doth not pollute.”
Source: The Rape of Lucrece
“Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?”
Source: Elric of Melniboné
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.”
“Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.”
Source: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
“Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?”