W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?”
“Why was a person’s exact cause of death so often more fascinating than what they did with their life? Because it explained how they suffered, Mills thought, because it was a reminder that everyone suffers in the end.”
Source: Orient
“Why was bail denied?”
“This is a very small town. The professor was a very popular man, despite some of the reasons why. Besides that, Stella is, at this moment, the most hated women around these parts. It’s far safer for her to be in jail.”
Source: Uncanny Alliance
“Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?”
“Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?”
“Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.”
Source: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
“Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?”
Source: Looking for JJ
“Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?”
Source: West of Sunset
“Why was he even dressed at all? The man should be naked all the time.”
Source: Wolf's Mate
“Why was he following me?
He was terrifying. Tall, dark, ripped. He had the face of a fallen angel who had torched his halo for fun. Dangerous. Controlled. Deadly.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not always found life so disturbing and so poignant?”
Source: Dunbar
“Why was he laughing? Did he know that he would survive? No. That's impossible. He realized that he would end his life here. He admitted the truth that he would die and laughed. Have you ever seen a pirate laughing on the execution stand?”
“Why was I born so attractive?”
“Because everyone would have throttled you within the first five minutes otherwise,” said her necromancer.”
Source: Gideon the Ninth
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
“Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?”
Source: Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett
“Why was I born, if just to live in misery”
“Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?”
Source: Alfred Hitchcock presents stories that scared even me
“Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??”
Source: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
“Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?”
Source: Lunar Park
“Why was I in a basement saying, "I'm alone here," wielding a lead pipe and crowbars? It was like I was doing the Vietnam War. It was like I was being America. If I put a blindfold on, I can't see you as people, which seemed to be what the United States was doing. I mean, it was important for people in my generation, because I grew up in the '40s, at a time when America was supposedly the hero nation. America saved Europe. And, some years later, we realized, America is a criminal.”
“Why was I in Iceland looking for happy memories? Maybe so I could figure out what happiness was. Or maybe so I could finally dream about something else, about someone else.”
Source: Happy Iceland: How Icelandic Strangers Taught a Miserable American the Secret to Lifelong Happiness
“Why was I so authoritative in a surgeon's coat but so meek in a patient's gown?”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“Why was I the Most Popular President Who Ever Lived?
I castrated the IRS, implemented the National Sales Tax (Fair Tax) and brought an end to parasitic government - all through the use of numbers, statistics. business metrics, graphs, pie charts, efficiency - in short - results.”
Source: The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
“Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!”
“Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?”
“Why was it important to keep doing that? Some people, usually men, talked about genetic programming, and said we couldn't deny our nature. This was supposed to be scientific. I didn't see how obeying our nature was scientific, since it was also our nature to die from smallpox and be unable to fly.”
Source: Either/or
“Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.”
Source: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an ordinary legislative assembly, a convention assembly may improve the ultimate quality of public deliberation, see, e.g., THE FEDERALIST No. 55, at 342 (J. Madison), but only by excluding most citizens, thereby raising fiduciary/agency problems. An answer based on organization theory/incentive analysis might focus on how a ratification convention is structured differently from an ordinary legislature in ways that enhance monitoring and improve public accountability. First, the People select convention delegates in a special election. Second, delegates are generally convened to consider a single issue (ratification). Third and related, the basic choice set is binary (yes-no), reducing agenda manipulation problems and decreasing the monitoring problems that exist in an ordinary legislature with virtually infinite possibilities of side deals and vote trading. Fourth, conventions immediately disband and disperse among the People, reducing the problem of legislators entrenching themselves and developing their own institutional perspectives. Finally, a convention enhances a sense of public-spiritedness and individual moral responsibility among both voters and delegates. Calling a "convention" signals to all concerned that the polity is entering a high-stakes moment when basic ground rules will be hammered out. Interestingly, criminal juries (deciding the single issue of individual guilt or innocence) possess many more convention attributes than do ordinary legislatures.”
Source: Of Sovereignty and Federalism
“Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?”
“Why was it so impossible to find anyone to love me? Was that really so difficult? Guys today sucked. Really, they did; it couldn’t be me, right? That was what I kept trying to convince myself of. But deep down, I knew better. Of course, it was me. Me. I was the problem.”
Source: Christmas Cancellation a Holiday Romance
“Why was it that all the beauty and clarity which my soul then contained came out so misshapenly on paper (as in life itself) just when I was wishing to apply those qualities to what I was thinking at the moment?”
Source: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
“Why was it that as people let go of their belief in the supernatural they still continued to hang on to the negative myths yet quickly discarded the positive? Nobody saw her as a tree spirit or sky maiden now as they did hundreds of years ago, Nobody even saw her as an angel, maybe because they saw her at night and despite all the lighting in the modern world, the fear of the night persisted.”
Source: Virtual Centre and other science fiction stories
“Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?”
Source: Taken at Dusk
“Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?”
Source: The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel
“Why was it that I was seeing beauty in death rather than life? Strangely, I thought he was beautiful.”
Source: Tokyo Ghoul
“Why was it that jam always coated me so?”
Source: Princess Ben
“Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, which up until now she had always faintly despised.”
Source: Wheels of Conflict
“Why was it that no matter what a woman accomplished in the world, if she hadn't married and had children, she was still considered a failure?”
Source: Lipstick Jungle
“Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?”
Source: A single shard
“Why was it that she’d never been able to find kinship with someone her age? Why was it that the few ties she fashioned always ended up coming undone by her own doing?”
Source: The Paragon
“Why was it that, so often, no matter what he was doing, no matter what he was seeing, no matter what he was feeling, he wanted to be doing, to be seeing, to be feeling, something else?”
Source: Baxter Bernstein a Hero of Sorts
“Why was it that the few ties she fashioned always ended up coming undone by her own doing?”
Source: The Paragon
“Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.”
Source: The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak Investigation:
“Why was it that the sight of water made everything in the world seem okay? She wanted to look at water every day.”
Source: Depth of Lies
“Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”
“Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.”
“Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?”
Source: Glass Houses
“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”
Source: Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy
“Why was Jesus called the Son of Man when he had no father, but came out of a woman only?”