W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State, and at last suffered death? Because he received revelations from the Father, from the Son, and was ministered to by holy angels, and published to the world the direct will of the Lord concerning his children on the earth.”
“Why was life so unfair that the one guy she felt uncontrollable chemistry with ---even when they weren't even touching ---was the only guy she had to keep her hands off?”
Source: Love Bites
“Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?”
Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel
“Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?”
“Why was Malin deliberately trying to hurt the feelings of his parents? Aravinda could not find an answer. Hurting his own parents' feelings was something alien to Aravinda. He lived among rural folk who encouraged children not to flout the wishes of parents and elders.”
Source: Yuganthaya
“Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger”
Source: Head Over Heels
“Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.”
“Why was she being this idiotic about him? He was only a cat.
There is no "only a," she told herself. Nothing and no one is "only a.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“Why was she born this way, a human being?
Why did being human hurt so much? Why couldn't she have been different, without a soul, without worth? Why couldn't she have been the thing her parents might have wanted?
Why couldn't anyone have treated her this way before?”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely.”
Source: Highland Outlaw
“Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy is sweet, wholseome, and nourishing (and 'Orenthal' is just too fancy)? You can have him for breakfast." (And "Sweetness" and "Sweet" are nicknames often given to black men.) Is "OJ" that far away from Jell-O? Wasn't that extended advertising campaign a way of saying you can trust our pudding because Bill Cosby likes it—sweet, wholesome, and pretty?”
Source: Television: A Biography
“Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?”
Source: Micah & Strange Candy
“Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?”
Source: Wayward
“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”
Source: Austenland: A Novel
“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”
“Why was the Stegosaurus banned from the buffet?
Because he brought his own plates!”
“Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.”
“Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?”
“Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.”
“Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition
“Why was this her life? Was it because she held out hope?”
Source: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
“Why was this so hard for my parents? It wasn’t unnatural for me to want this from them. To want to share my life with people who love me. To laugh and cry and make memories together. Because life is only happy when it’s shared”
“Why was unconditional love given to some, but not all? Why would my mother only love me, and why did society only accept me, under the condition that I agreed to pretend to be someone I wasn’t?
Why was acceptance offered to some, but not all?
And who had decided all these rules, anyway?”
Source: All We Ever Wanted
“Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
Source: A Little Life
“Why wasn’t I good enough for you? Is it because I intimidated you? Did that give you the right to tear me down mentally and physically? Why did you put hands on me? Was it because you thought I was too weak to fight back? Or did you pick me out of the many women in the world who you made as your prey because I was happy and you were miserable? You are a coward. You are weak. You will never have the ability to hurt me again because I have taken back my power. I am loved, and most importantly, I am loved by me. For decades, I didn’t know that I am the one who is the narrator of my story and that my happy ending is up to me.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and disappearing down the street.
I wave until she turns the corner. And as I watch another person drive out of here to some better place, I understand exactly why I wasn't nicer.”
Source: I Was Here
“Why wasn't society sympathetic towards black people? Their land had been stolen. Their neighborhoods were burned down. Many of them faced mass eviction. Slavery. Segregation. Being barred from achieving an education and getting a high-end job.”
Source: Solana
“Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?”
Source: Ladder of Years
“Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?”
Source: Libro de Las Preguntas
“Why waste a sentence saying nothing?”
“Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?”
“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?”
“Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?”
“Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.”
“Why waste time for a love partner, while you've already wasted a lot of time for your self.”
“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”
“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”
“Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?”
Source: The Whole Truth
“Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.”
“Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?”
“Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.”
“Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?”
“Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.”
“Why waste your time on a closed door when open doors await you on the other side? Do not let past disappointments slow you down or deter you from your path. Focus.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Why waste yourself doing something pointless, when you can spend your life being productive in your own eyes?”
Source: Drug Gang
“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?”
“Why water more wine in the great bowl?
Why do you drown your gullet in grape?
I cannot let you spill out your life
on song and drink. Let us go to sea,
and not let the wintry calm of morning
slip by as a drunken sleep. Had we
boarded at dawn, seized rudder and spun
the flapping crossjack into the wind,
we would be happy now, happy as swimming
in grape. But you draped a lazy arm
on my shoulder, saying: 'Sir, a pillow,
your singing does not lead me to ships'.”