W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?”
“Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.”
“Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.”
“Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.”
“Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?”
“Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor Lyall stifled a chuckle. “I am given to understand that he does not approve of spelling one’ s name with two ll’s. He finds it inexcusably Welsh. I suspect he may be quite taken with you, however.”
“Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.”
Source: The Bone People: A Novel
“Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.”
Source: Strong Poison
“Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”
“Why? Why are they always wanting to kill Jews?”
“Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?”
“Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-" You wouldn't take me to New York" His mouth dropped open "NEW YORK?" he shouted. "You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!”
Source: Sizzle: A Novel
“Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.”
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
“Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?”
“Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.”
Source: Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci
“Why? Why would you do that?” "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.”
Source: Wintergirls
“Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.”
Source: THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South
“Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.”
“Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh”
“Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.”
“Why?' is the prophetic question.”
“Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.”
“Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.”
“whyareyougivingawaythecookies?!”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff--
What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff,
Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare,
Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care,
Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres
That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres,
My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore,
And yitt I stode the same man I was afore
Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste
Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste”
“Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.”
“Why’d he call you?” – Sundown “My charming personality.” – Zarek”
“Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.” (Arianna to Evie)”
“WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.”
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
“Wi-Fi is a blessing from the gods.”
Source: Wolf Island
“WI have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.”
“Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my false luver straw my rose
But left the thorn wi' me.”
“Wianki are traditionally worn by maidens at festivals, especially on St. John's Eve, which was always near Midsummer's Eve. At the end of the festival, the maidens would throw their flower wreaths into the water. If yours became tangled with another girl's, then you were destined to be best friends. If it sank, then you would likely never get married and probably have a lot of cats. But, if a young man snatched your wreath from the water, then the two of you were destined to be married.”
Source: The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go
“Wiara to równie potężna siła jak nauka. Ale znacznie bardziej niebezpieczna.”
Source: Voyager
“Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.”
Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
“Wicca if God and Jesus are both Father and Son couldn't your God and your Goddess be the same one?”
“Wicca is just extreme LARPing. Then again, so is every other religion.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'”
“Wichtor’s been cranky ever since a fat vulture roosted on his granite Cârnat, uh, schmekel in 1864 and broke it off." — Bats 2015”
“Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.”
“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe”
Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“WICKED is good”
Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy
“Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Wicked is wrong motives.”
“Wicked marriages are built on a foundation of deceit, with partners entrapping each other in a web of lies and manipulation, their vows mere empty promises, their union a facade hiding their true intentions, a toxic bond that suffocates trust and love, leaving only heartache and betrayal in its wake.”
“Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.”
“Wicked men have done dirty things to u but never ever think that u are dirty!”
Source: Blood Borne Connections
“Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”