W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?”
“Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?”
Source: Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe
“Why should we pay a percentage of the bill in a restaurant as a tip? If I order a beefburger for £12 and you order a steak for £38 does it require any extra effort on behalf of the waiter to bring your steak from the kitchen than it does to carry my beefburger? No, and yet at 12.5% you’ll pay £4.75 tip while I’ll only be expected to pay £1.50. For the same amount of work. And the same holds true if you order a more expensive bottle of wine than me”
Source: Gunpowder Soup
“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler’s or Newton’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?”
Source: About The Holy Bible
“Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.”
Source: Interviews
“Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?”
“Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?”
“Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?”
“Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?”
“Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?”
“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
“Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.”
“Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.”
“Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?”
“Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”
“Why should we tie everyone's future to athletic success? I think organic farm has saved our school. It saved it because it changed the narrative of the institution. We're the first urban work college in the country. And so our students learn what it means to be effective and to have job skills and work skills.”
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
Source: Silent Spring
“Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.”
“Why should we try to be normal? Normal is boring.”
Source: The Head of Medusa
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
“Why should we write about happiness, when sadness is the only thing that we suffer?”
“Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?”
“Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“Why should what i weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I'm sitting on them, who cares?”
Source: Holding Up the Universe
“Why should what's between my legs be considered any smarter or stupider, any worse or better? It's all just meat, Don Tric. In the end, it's all just food for worms.”
Source: Nevernight
“Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.”
Source: Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material
“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands! And why should a child be identified only by their father’s name and not the mother’s, who by the way, is the root of all creation - who is creation! We are never going to have a civilized society with equity as foundation, unless we acknowledge and abolish such filthy habits that we’ve been practicing as tradition.
Showing off our skin-deep support for equality few days a year doesn’t eliminate all the discriminations from the world, we have to live each day as the walking proof of equality, ascension and assimilation.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?”
“Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?”
Source: Chomsky on Democracy & Education
“Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?”
“Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience.”
“Why should you be stubborn? Stop living sinful lives.”
“Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.”
“Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?”
“Why should you care so much about what others think of you, than what you think about yourself?”
“Why should you care so much for Christminster?" she said pensively. "Christminster cares nothing for you, poor dear!"
"Well, I do, I can't help it. I love the place — although I know how it hates all men like me — the so-called self-taught — how it scorns our laboured acquisitions, when it should be the first to respect them; how it sneers at our false quantities and mispronunciations, when it should say, I see you want help, my poor friend! ... Nevertheless, it is the centre of the universe to me, because of my early dream: and nothing can alter it. Perhaps it will soon wake up, and be generous. I pray so! ... I should like to go back to live there — perhaps to die there! In two or three weeks I might, I think. It will then be June, and I should like to be there by a particular day.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“Why should you desire to compel others; why should you seek to have power— that evil, bitter, mocking thing, which has been from of old, as it is today, the sorrow and curse of the world—over your fellow-men and fellow-women? Why should you desire to take from any man or woman their own will and intelligence, their free choice, their own self-guidance, their inalienable rights over themselves; why should you desire to make of them mere tools and instruments for your own advantage and interest; why should you desire to compel them to serve and follow your opinions instead of their own; why should you deny in them the soul—that suffers so deeply from all constraint—and treat them as a sheet of blank paper upon which you may write your own will and desires, of whatever kind they may happen to be? Who gave you the right, from where do you pretend to have received it, to degrade other men and women from their own true rank as human beings, taking from them their will, their conscience, and intelligence—in a word, all the best and highest part of their nature—turning them into mere empty worthless shells, mere shadows of the true man and women, mere counters in the game you are mad enough to play, and just because you are more numerous or stronger than they, to treat them as if they belonged not to themselves, but to you? Can you believe that good will ever come by morally and spiritually degrading your fellow-men? What happy and safe and permanent form of society can you hope to build on this pitiful plan of subjecting others, or being yourselves subjected by them?”
“Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?”
Source: The Sign of Four
“Why should you hate me, who you do not know? First learn who I am, and then if you have reason, let hate come to the fore.
This phrase appeared in my brain after waking from very clear dream in which I was asked in a very nasty manner if I hated the Jewish people, replied to with a straight out “No, I do not.” (See: “Living with ‘the other’” in my blog.)”
Source: The Way We Are
“Why should you have to atone for making big movies?”
“Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.”
Source: Edward the Second
“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
“Why should you mind?' she said.
He brushed the remark away.
'How do you think I'm going to live if I'm never to be certain of you, day or night?' he said to her.
She shrugged her shoulders.
'It's not my affair if you choose to make a fool of yourself,' she told him.
There was a pause and then she said: 'You might have known this would happen. I'm nearly twenty-five, my life's my own, after all.”
Source: Julius
“Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.”
“Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?”
“Why should you seek help, where there is no help?”
“Why Should You Smile?
It makes you attractive, it changes your mood, it relieves your stress and helps you to stay positives. Then stop worrying start to Smile. Life will be admires you.”