W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for that is where they are going, is a question that could only occur to someone who has never in his life suffered shortages.”
Source: Blindness
“Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.”
“Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of the past, unnecessarily.”
Source: The Chilean National English Test: The Years 2001 - 2014
“Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born
when you said, 'Hey.”
“Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A”
“Why this compulsion to keep on interfering, worrying, wanting things in neat and compulsive boxes – dream on fuckguts, it’s not going to happen.”
“Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.”
Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
“Why this endless need for a man as a mirror? To see the Arthur Less reflected there? He is grieving, for sure—the loss of his lover, his career, his novel, his youth—so why not cover the mirrors, rend the fabric over his heart, and just let himself mourn? Perhaps he should try alone.”
Source: Less
“Why this girl? Why had this girl crawled right under his skin and made an uncomfortable home there? Why did he want to make things good for her, to see her smile, to make her face
and her voice make all those interesting shapes and noises? Why did he want to stay up late with her when he knew she should be sleeping, just to hear her talk about maths and politics and the
state of the world?
This was not Quentin. Quentin did not like skinny girls. He didn’t like serious girls. And he really hated bossy girls.
Quentin loved curvy, fun, uncomplicated girls; girls who laughed at his jokes and took off their bras when they danced on tables. If they wore bras at all. Yet here he was, washing up and mopping and feeling like five kinds of an arsehole over hurting the feelings of some skinny, serious, bossy girl.”
Source: Numbered
“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”
“Why This Matters Before the cross, Satan had eternal claim on our souls. All humans die—and so, go to the realm of the dead, his domain. And there we would remain—were it not for the sacrifice of Jesus and his resurrection.
Through faith in his work on the cross, we are raised with him. As we saw in the previous chapter, Satan was expelled from God’s presence when the kingdom began on earth (Luke 10:18). God would have no more of his accusations against believers. He had no more right to our souls. Why, then, do we live as though he does?
Salvation is not gained by moral perfection. It is a gift that comes by grace, through faith (Eph. 2:8–9). That in turn means salvation cannot be lost by moral imperfection. What is not at all gained by performance cannot be lost by poor performance. Salvation is about believing loyalty—trusting what Jesus did to defeat Satan’s claim and turning from all other gods and the belief systems of which they are a part. That is the message of God’s kingdom we are commissioned to tell to the nations (Matt. 28:19–20).
And as we obey, the dominions of the enemy gods, the principalities and powers, shrink—soul by soul, moment by moment. The gates of hell, the realm of the dead, do not withstand the resurrection, and will not withstand the advance of the gospel.”
“Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.”
“Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?”
Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings
“Why this weak indulgent puppet of France and the Roman Catholic Church should have become such a romantic figure in Scottish myth is inexplicable. (So peculiar was this last Jacobite rebellion that some historical pespective is necessary: it took place while Benjamin Franklin was corresponding with his English associates on electricity, the brothers Adam were still at the University of Edinburgh, and the idea of building a new town was forming in the imagination of Provost [George] Drummond.)”
Source: Creating a Scottish Parliament
“Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.”
Source: Timequake
“Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?”
“Why to be in this room?
If I was smart... I won't stay in this room and I will move in a room where people are more clever than me... but If it's easy as possibility... I want without a trouble to finish school.”
“why to get stress or get bore ..
When you have flipdark.com to get ultimate entertainment :)”
“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.”
“Why trade definite for a maybe?”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.”
“Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Why trouble the young and brooding with harrowing spells of magic? We are bats of fruitless wombs perhaps? We comb the hilly tops of sanguine trees and fecund seas. We travel footfall/ trespass over and over lips and crest.”
Source: Ambrosia
“Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.”
“Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.”
“Why try to fit in when you a stand out?”
“Why try to pursue what is completed?”
“Why two (or whole groups) of people can come up with the same story or idea at the same time, even when across the world from each-other:
"A field is a region of influence, where a force will influence objects at a distance with nothing in between. We and our universe live in a Quantum sea of light. Scientists have found that the real currency of the universe is an exchange of energy. Life radiates light, even when grown in the dark. Creation takes place amidst a background sea of energy, which metaphysics might call the Force, and scientists call the "Field." (Officially the Zero Point Field) There is no empty space, even the darkest empty space is actually a cauldron of energies. Matter is simply concentrations of this energy (particles are just little knots of energy.) All life is energy (light) interacting. The universe is self-regenreating and eternal, constantly refreshing itself and in touch with every other part of itself instantaneously. Everything in it is giving, exchanging and interacting with energy, coming in and out of existence at every level. The self has a field of influence on the world and visa versa based on this energy.
Biology has more and more been determined a quantum process, and consciousness as well, functions at the quantum level (connected to a universe of energy that underlies and connects everything). Scientist Walter Schempp's showed that long and short term memory is stored not in our brain but in this "Field" of energy or light that pervades and creates the universe and world we live in.
A number of scientists since him would go on to argue that the brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism of the ultimate storage medium - the Field. Associates from Japan would hypothesize that what we think of as memory is simply a coherent emission of signals from the "Field," and that longer memories are a structured grouping of this wave information. If this were true, it would explain why one tiny association often triggers a riot of sights, sounds and smells. It would also explain why, with long-term memory in particular, recall is instantaneous and doesn't require any scanning mechanism to sift through years and years of memory.
If they are correct, our brain is not a storage medium but a receiving mechanism in every sense, and memory is simply a distant cousin of perception.
Some scientists went as far as to suggest that all of our higher cognitive processes result from an interaction with the Field. This kind of constant interaction might account for intuition or creativity - and how ideas come to us in bursts of insight, sometimes in fragments but often as a miraculous whole. An intuitive leap might simply be a sudden coalescence of coherence in the Field.
The fact that the human body was exchanging information with a mutable field of quantum fluctuation suggested something profound about the world. It hinted at human capabilities for knowledge and communication far deeper and more extended than we presently understand. It also blurred the boundary lines of our individuality - our very sense of separateness. If living things boil down to charged particles interacting with a Field and sending out and receiving quantum information, where did we end and the rest of the world began? Where was consciousness-encased inside our bodies or out there in the Field?
Indeed, there was no more 'out there' if we and the rest of the world were so intrinsically interconnected. In ignoring the effect of the "Field" modern physicists set mankind back, by eliminating the possibility of interconnectedness and obscuring a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles. In re-normalizing their equations (to leave this part out) what they'd been doing was a little like subtracting God.”
Source: The Field
“Why ugly? Because there is nothing pretty about breathing rust and consuming horror”
Source: Looking for Oranges
“Why understand when you can believe?”
Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel
“Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?"
"Everything has to happen to someone," said Ginger.”
Source: Moving Pictures
“Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?”
“Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.”
Source: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
“Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you”
“Why wait? Do it now.”
“Why wait for a call when you have a command?”
“Why wait for a day when every second is an opportunity.”
“Why wait for Death to mow?
why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground?”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It is so beautiful, so wonderful! It is all sorts of things together. It is a great cosmic jokе.”
“Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.”
“Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?”
“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.”
“Why wait to be memorable?”
Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial
“Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?”
“Why wait until New Year's to create a new you?”
“Why wait until the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving to give,
Just give a little every day and help somebody along the way”
“Why wallow in a puddle of self pity when there's a sea of self acceptance and self realisation waiting for you?”