W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why would you show hostility toward a country that offers you hospitality? Why fight for a country you don’t want to live in while staying in another that has welcomed you? Why cause trouble or commit crimes while waving the flag of a country you’ve chosen to leave, especially while benefiting from the hospitality of another? If you’re unhappy, why not peacefully return to the country you support so strongly?”
“Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?”
“Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.”
Source: Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
“Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?”
“Why would you throw a ball in someone's face?...Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.”
Source: Sh*t My Dad Says
“Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn’t dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)”
Source: Dream Warrior
“Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE”
Source: An A-Hole Goes To Work
“Why would you want me after all I have done?' Hyacinthe asks, anguished.
'Why does anyone want anyone else?' Tiernan answers. 'We do not love because people deserve it- nor would I want to be loved because I was the most deserving of some list of candidates. I want to be loved for my worst self as well as my best. I want to be forgiven my flaws.'
'I find it harder to forgive your virtues,' Hyacinthe tells him, a smile in his voice.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?”
“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”
“Why would you want to be one of them?" she says. ”How could you live with yourself?"
I've asked myself that so many times. How could I ever want to be a part of the section of humanity responsible for so much of my suffering? In what ways haven't men hurt me? But then again—in what ways haven't women? In what ways hasn't everyone?
I say, "I don't believe in original sin." Mary looks at me askance, frowning. “What they've done isn't my burden to bear. It's theirs.”
Source: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?”
“Why would you want to be there in my present if you can't promise to be there in my future?”
“Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players to play for Nigeria. If you bring a European coach, he should also bring oyinbo (white) players. That's how it is.”
“Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?”
“Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.”
“Why would you want to join a club that does not want you as a member? If a club does not want you as a member, start your own club.”
“Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.”
“Why would you want to kidnap Herr Schiller’s grandson?”
Jansch looked at his boss. He arched his eyebrows. “I wouldn’t.”
“I know you wouldn’t. But amuse me, please.”
Jansch studied the car for a moment. “Leverage,” he said eventually.”
Source: The Eagle's Covenant
“Why Would You Want To Sit Still In A World That's Forever Moving?”
Source: Whispers of Wisdom: Philosophical Quotes of Luc Jorgart
“Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?”
“Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.”
“Why would you want to work when you don't have to?
"At some point, you have to do things for yourself," Jane says to Mei. "You'll understand once you've been worked like a dog and can't even keep track of which days you've showered."
... Mei takes this in. "It's so weird. You get good grades in high school so you can get into a good college. Then you go to a good college so you can get a good job. I thought that was the endgame."
Jane laughs. "That's the endgame of your youth. Then you start learning all those things you were working so hard for don't actually make you happy...”
Source: Women of Good Fortune
“Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?”
“Why wouldn't I be ready to have a hawk hand me a mouse? Just your normal kind of thing to deal with.”
Source: The Visitor
“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.”
“Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.”
“Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now.”
“Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?”
Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?”
“Why wouldn't somebody have the same legal rights as everybody else in our society? What is that about? I don't even understand them putting same sex marriage on the ballot. So if fifty-one percent of the people say it shouldn't happen, it's not going to happen? You can get fifty-one percent of the people to say just about anything - to say let's bring back slavery, or all Mexicans should be slaves, or something absolutely crazy like that. Does that mean we do it?”
“Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?”
“Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.”
“Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.”
“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”
“Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?”
“Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.”
Source: How To Uncover Your Past Lives
“Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?”
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
“Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.”
“Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.”
“Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?”
“Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.”
Source: The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
“Why write stories? To join the conversation.”
Source: Trash
“Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.”
“Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.”
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“Why you choose happiness, so you think that the sad moments like somebody dieing - it's equal to happiness?
!?!?!?!??!
So you think that time crimes like this in auschwitz which don't have proof so far from what they say in the reports from Mr.Death (Documentary film!)... so this is equal to (How to say it???!?!) to happiness??
WTF, crime equal to happiness, sadness also so what's left?
Oh, oh I know the Joker (Note: He is a nice character isn't he?)”