W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!”
“Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?”
“Why won't you take me, Remington?" He groans and pulls me closer. "Because I want you too much".”
“Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“Why worry about how you’ll die when you could focus on how to truly live?”
“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”
“Why worry about that for which there is no solution? There is no solution for death, so does anyone worry about that?”
Source: Death: Before, During After...
“Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.”
“Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?”
Source: Failing Forward
“Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Why worry & fear, he who has given life will also take care of it.”
Source: MEET THE REAL YOU: A Recipe To Find Meaning, Purpose...Everlasting Peace, Love, Joy...Success, Growth And Happiness in Life...
“Why worry, if today be sweet'?”
“Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.”
Source: United States of Japan
“Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.”
“Why would a living person worry about what happens after they die? I'll just live freely for as long as possible.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.”
Source: Brenda Jackson The Westmoreland Series Books 1-5: Delaney's Desert Sheikh\A Little Dare\Thorn's Challenge\Stone Cold Surrender\Riding The Storm
“Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?”
“Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.”
“Why would a murderer call 9-1-1 and report a murder she just committed? Does that make any sense to you? Does it?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“Why . . . would a penguin be in a piss pot?”
Source: Destiny, NY, Volume One: Who I Used to Be
“Why would a perfect being, such as God, need to create any less perfect beings? The answer, said Edwards, is that God is perfectly loving and so wishes to share that love with creatures capable of love. Edwards's starting point was that a loving God stands at the heart of the universe. So for Edwards the universe is most essentially personal; it is the creative expression of a person. Edwards's emphasis on personality at the center of reality presents a sharp contrast to most modern views. Since the Enlightenment many modern thinkers have built their theories on the premise that the universe is essentially impersonal, controlled by natural laws. Edwards challenged that view with a vital alternative: that at the core of reality is a loving God, and that love is the dynamic behind the creation of the universe and everything in it. Starting with a sense of God's love at the center of reality then shapes the way we think of true virtue. At the core of reality is the beauty of the love of God pouring forth, so that the highest good is to return that love to God.”
Source: A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Library of Religious Biography
“Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.”
“Why would a semi-nude woman walking down the street — and the society around her — have a problem with a woman wearing a hijab? Because, deep down, both she and society are aware: silently, countless eyes are undressing her, treating her as a sexual object, looking at her as a showpiece of sex. It's not just about religion. It's a matter of an inferiority complex — something that, somewhere deep inside, feels like a quiet shame imposed on her dignity by her own choice of clothing and fashion. And so, for the sake of self-satisfaction, they want to snatch the hijab from another woman — a woman who chose the hijab just as another chooses semi-nude fashion. The woman in hijab pays the price for refusing to participate in the shame society and fashion tries to impose on her.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Why would a vampire's house smell like pancakes?”
Source: Astrodroirs and the Shadowed Heart
“Why would a white caribou come down to Beaver River, where the woodland herd lives? Why would she leave the Arctic tundra, where the light blazes incandescent, to haunt these shadows? Why would any caribou leave her herd to walk, solitary, thousands of miles? The herd is comfort. The herd is a fabric you can't cut or tear, passing over the land. If you could see the herd from the sky, if you were a falcon or a king eider, it would appear like softly floating gauze over the face of the snow, no more substantial than a cloud. "We are soft," the herd whispers. "We have no top teeth. We do not tear flesh. We do not tear at any part of life. We are gentleness itself. Why would any of us break from the herd? Break, apart, separate, these are hard words. The only reason any of us would become one, and not part of the herd, is if she were lost.”
Source: Annabel
“Why would a woman waste her prime fertile period for some hectic job? Taking good care of the kids is the greatest job ever. Idiots are those who measure a women's contribution to the family in terms of money earned.
It is insensitive to leave behind your kids with someone and go to the job.
It is understandable to sacrifice good parenting for financial needs, but "I work to keep myself busy" is a foolish excuse.
Dear women, mother nature gave you all the great things to you to bring a new life and take good care of that life. All other that feminists are telling you is pure nonsense.”
“Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?”
“Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.”
“Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.”
Source: All the Birds in the Sky
“Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion.”
“Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me "Gabe, my blood sugar is out of control and I feel you". That's the first thing they say, they say "I feel you!".”
“Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.”
“Why would anybody not own a gun?”
“Why would anybody want a friend?”
“Why would anybody want a jagged piece to fit into the puzzle we call existance? A jagged piece, broken as it may be, will always stand out. There is no place for the broken pieces.”
“Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.”
“Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.”
Source: Silent Spring
“Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art?”
“Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?”
“Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.”
“Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.”
“Why would anyone love a monster?' asked Perseus.
'Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?' said Hermes.
'I mean, I wasn't...'
'And who are you to decide who is a monster?' added the messenger god.”
Source: Stone Blind: Medusa's Story
“Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.”
“Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!”
Source: The Future of Us
“Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.”
“Why would anyone think the FBI had done something crooked or criminal?”