W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why so little difference between FACES and FECES?”
“Why so many eager to hear the word of “I love you” and so few care to see?”
“Why so many mentions regarding Jesus from such a wide variety of sources (Pliny, Tacitus, Lucian, Josephus, to name a few)? Because Jesus of Nazareth was a man of history, who made a profound impact on history. There's no good reason to doubt that Jesus existed, or to think the real Jesus was completely different from the one depicted in the Story.”
“Why so much fighting? Is the land valuable?”
“There is nothing of value here. Yet men have always believed that they know better than those who came before. That they will be the ones to claim the Contested Lands.”
Source: Windwitch
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
“Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.”
“Why so pale and wan, fond lover,
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?”
“Why so sad?" Zach queries in fairy-tale tones. "Rachel?"
"O my brother Ivanushka," she recites. "A heavy stone is round my throat, silken grass grows through my fingers, yellow sand lies on my breast."
"That's perishing gloomy," Zach remarks.
"It ends happily though. Gracious! Everything sounds depressing this morning," adds Rachel. "There's a teacher at my school, she's very young, but she goes, Gracious! Just like a dowager. Makes me laugh. Except this morning. I can't help it. I am too depressed. I hate those voices so much. In the Gardens."
"Stop listening," Zach scolds and put his hands in her hair—silken grass grows through his fingers.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?”
“Why so serious?”
“Why? So you can still qualify for assistance? Your family is gaming the system?"
"No." Diana had always hated when people said this about her family. The bosses who made her dad list a payroll company as his employer, they gamed the system. The assholes who convinced her parents to take out both a second mortgage and a HELOC in 2006 gamed the system. The employers who would never give Edith enough hours for benefits gamed the system. But ask a lot of people, and they'd tell you it's people like her grandma who game the system. They'd tell you that an old woman who's worked hard every day of her life and still struggles to get by is a malignant vacuum for their personal tax dollars, and a blight on their lives as free Americans. "We're just trying to live.”
Source: The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“Why some dreams of your life make you more restless till they are completed!
Because dreams aren't spaced by time, only realities come with this feature”
“Why some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. (“If he doesn't play ball » )”
“Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.”
“why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?”
Source: Cosmopolis
“Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.”
“Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Why speak with assumption,
Why speak with theories,
When we could analyze
the actual person?
Prejudice is not only be immoral, but also illogical”
Source: For the Intellect
“Why speculate when you can calculate?”
“Why speed life up? There is so precious little of it.”
“Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.”
“Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”
“Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?”
“Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.”
“Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Why spend time looking into a screen when you can”
“Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Why spend your time fighting to make a damaging reality work? Be willing to move on from the people and situations that don't serve your heart. You are capable of creating relationships and circumstances rooted in respect, equality and love. But you have to believe you deserve them.”
“Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.”
Source: The Neverland Wars
“Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.”
“Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Why Start a Small Business?
There are many benefits to starting a small business. Small businesses are great because you get the opportunity.”
“Why start something that you won’t see to the end? You need to finish what you start!”
“Why stay on the earth except to grow.”
“Why stay silent, why stay asleep, why - why - why - no more - no more - wake up, wake up from indifference, wake up from practicality, wake up from mystical moronism - wake up and take charge - take charge with conscience, courage and compassion - throw all nonsense of magic, dogma and habit overboard, and stand up with a fresh breeze of reason and clarity in your heart. Only then - I repeat, only then shall the world know true progress - only then shall the world know true humanity.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Why stay we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me: give me liberty, or give me death!”
Source: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“Why stay we on earth except to grow?”
“Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?”
“Why still live in sin, when there is a Savior?”
“Why strain so hard to please someone else's society when you could create your own?”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“Why struggle to discover the world if you can make it become whatever you wish--by wishing?”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”
“Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error”
“Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.”
“Why such a massacre had occurred, the Omegans could only speculate. Some thought it may have been to stop a large-scale emigration out of America to a fabled Utopian society; others wondered if it was intended to create fear in the populace – fear of cults, fear of Communism, fear of anything foreign; and still others believed it was to create a precedence whereby any groups labelled a cult would be vilified without due diligence by the public.”
Source: The Orphan Factory
“Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness?”
Source: Inkdeath
“Why suffer for something ordinary?”
Source: Notes on Heartbreak
“Why suffering has been my only friend?, maybe I am suffering and have mistaken it as my friend.”
“Why, Sullivan, I think I just kicked your ass.”
Source: Twice Bitten