W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why ways to brew coffee, when tea may be healthier.”
“Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.”
Source: U. S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America
“Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Why we are here is an impenetrable question.”
“Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.”
“Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.”
“Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.”
“Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day?
Are they useless or too many?
We humans must realize it before it is too late.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Why we don't value intellectual honesty beyond easy answers is beyond me.”
Source: Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“Why we expect children to be more tranquil than a parliamentary body or a ministers' meeting I do not know and cannot imagine.”
Source: On the Training of Parents - Scholar's Choice Edition
“Why we have such a frightening rise in mental health illnesses in our country? Are there legitimate causes, or do we have a whole mental health industrial complex benefiting from over diagnosing, over prescribing, and over pathologizing? Have we created such a stifling, unfair, and unfulfilling society, including employment and social conditions, that have caused so much depression and other mental health illnesses to an increasing number of people? Or is it a combination of all these issues?”
“Why We Hide
We hide from being misunderstood. From being criticized. From being attacked online. But most of all, from being blamed for what happened to us.
The shame and the fear make us think our invisibility will protect us.”
Source: Origin: Music, Art, Yoga & Consciousness
“Why we march and why we die,
And what life means...it's all a lie.
Death! Death! Death!”
Source: The Court of Broken Knives
“Why we need the help of insurance broker in spain while we are taking the car insurance.”
“Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.”
“Why we pray matters as much as what we pray.”
Source: CALLED to Pray: 52 Devotions & Prayers for Women
“Why, we’re just petty insects, all of us, fighting on a pinhead planet.”
Source: S Is for Space
“Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be right for a different sort of situation, but in the end, it's going to be about your view, your voice, and how you put that all together.”
“Why We Tell Stories
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Because we used to have leaves
and on damp days
our muscles feel a tug,
painful now, from when roots
pulled us into the ground
and because our children believe
they can fly, an instinct retained
from when the bones in our arms
were shaped like zithers and broke
neatly under their feathers
and because before we had lungs
we knew how far it was to the bottom
as we floated open-eyed
like painted scarves through the scenery
of dreams, and because we awakened
and learned to speak”
Source: Alive Together
“Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?”
“Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white.”
“Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?”
“Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?”
Source: Territory of Light
“Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?”
Source: If Blood Should Stain the Wattle
“Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts.”
Source: This boy's life
“Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.”
“Why were only our heroes nonviolent? I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that Blacks are in especial need of this morality. Back then all I could do was measure these freedom-lovers by what I knew... I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion. The world, the real one, was civilization secured and ruled by savage means. How could the schools valorize men and women whose values society actively scorned?”
Source: Between the World and Me
“Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“Why were some people fated, like Job, to live a never-ending debate between themselves and their sense of what they believed life should be? Why did some hearts feel insulted at being alive, humiliated at the terms of existence? It was as though one felt that one had been promised something and when that promise had not been kept, one felt a sense of loss that made life intolerable; it was as though one was angry, but did not know toward what or whom the anger should be directed; it was as though one felt betrayed, but could never determine the manner of the betrayal.”
Source: The Outsider
“Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.”
“Why were the people who clung so fiercely to the notions of right and wrong the very same individuals that had the worst grasp of what they meant?”
Source: Worm
“Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.”
“Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?”
Source: Treasures Lost, Treasures Found
“Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.”
Source: Alice I Have Been: A Novel
“Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it.”
Source: Acts of God While on Vacation
“Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.”
Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
“Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power?" In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." "And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right," Wulf said. When the other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, "I guess I'm the only one he ever said that one to.”
Source: Acheron
“Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.”
Source: Tenth of December
“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”
Source: The Lake
“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn’t see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.”
Source: La Chiripa
“Why were you anxious to be divorced from your husband?” the DA demanded.
“I had no love for him,” Alice replied.”
Source: Cold Heart: The Great Unsolved Mystery of Turn of the Century Buffalo
“Why were you even there?" Kami asked. "Were you following me home?" "Are you asking me if I was stalking you?" "Maybe," said Kami. "Were you?" "Yeah," said Jared. "Little bit.”
Source: Untold
“Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?" I rubbed my face. "So basically you're scared that His Lordship might get his panties in a bunch?" "That's one way to put it.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
“Why weren't there any women in Jesus' gang?’ asked Winnifred. ‘Jesus' gang?’ echoed the vicar surprised. ‘Jesus never had a gang. Ah— you mean the Twelve.’ Winnifred nodded. The vicar looked perplexed. ‘Well, it wouldn't really have been appropriate, would it?’ ‘Why not?’ I asked. ‘It just wouldn't,’ replied the vicar, looking annoyed at my question. ‘But Jesus had a lot of girl friends,’ said Pearl. ‘He certainly didn't,’ replied the vicar, shocked. ‘But Vicar, what about Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus? The Bible says that Jesus loved them,’ insisted Pearl. ‘And then there was Mary Magdalene,’ I added. ‘She wanted to hug him in Joseph's garden when he had just come out of the tomb, but Jesus told her not to touch him.’ ‘Yes— well—’ said the vicar uncertainly. ‘They were good followers of Jesus and they loved him— as we should all love him. No more questions now. We will be starting the service shortly.’ ‘Not very helpful,’ I whispered to Winnifred. ‘If Jesus had had a few women in his group of twelve, it would be much easier to know how to live with them.”
Source: Gang Loyalty
“Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?”