W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.”
Source: Distress
“Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice felt unlimited?”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Would I have done the same thing if my family had been threatened? Maybe. It's easy to have ethics when what you love is not in danger.”
Source: A Sunny Place for Shady People
“Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.”
“Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from
anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I
could completely imagine his suffering and I replied
that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not
imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to
remember that about imagination, that is when the
world gets dull when everybody does not know what
they can or what they cannot really imagine.”
“Would I laugh?"
"Matter of fact, you would," says Zeb. "Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.”
Source: MaddAddam
“Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.”
“Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?”
“Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.”
“Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.”
“Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.”
“Would I need a defense plan for Zeek's defense plan? Probably. I didn't trust that alien.”
Source: Immigrant from the Stars
“Would I rather be dental floss or a toothbrush? is that a question? Um, I would actually rather be floss, I think, if I was using me. Because I don't really floss enough.”
“Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?”
“Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.”
“Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.”
“Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.”
“Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.”
“Would I start again if I could? In a second.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.”
Source: Eight White Nights: A Novel
“Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.”
“Would I want to be sponsored by me?”
“Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,
For what is in this world but grief and woe?”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“Would I were in an alehouse in London.”
“Would it be all right to top the crab kachoris with date chutney foam, so the hors d'oeuvre could be circulated without a mess? Should the chicken be served over a bed of pulav or plated individually in bowls?”
Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
“Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?”
“Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.”
“Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.”
“Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.”
“Would it be death? If so, she did not fear it, for she knew that her life would flow down the silver thread which always trailed her, to the Carrier of Spirits who would gather the rest of her in that vast sea of memory. Would she find her mother? She had found her mother. Would she go home? Where was home, anyway?
“The trees were full of fireflies, and suddenly, as if a new goddess came to meet her, the moon, a vast-seeming golden sphere of light, softened at the edges by the thickness of the air, rose and came toward her. She ran in her own globe of golden radiance until she felt that like Skaalya in the legend she could learn to fly. She would fly up, she would dive into the Moon, she would know what this goddess knew, she would give herself to the light which had at long last returned itself to her.
“She chased the moon toward her until they met at the doorway, the moon diving into the portal before Essa arrived. It was there, she knew, on the other side. Would she too pass through?
“She stood in wonder before the doorway: was this what ‘wondering’ truly meant? She could spend her life wondering.…
“Ahead of her was the bright doorway: green, iridescent, swirling, oval under the trees, lit from behind by the full moon.”
Source: Black Wine
“Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?”
“Would it be like the poets always write about, where I become his person, and he becomes mine?”
Source: All About You
“Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.”
“Would it be okay, if I joined you for a while?” He continued before they could respond, “I promise not to overstay my welcome.”
Source: A Ghost In New Orleans
“Would it be politically incorrect to call a top-ranked female anchor (with a law degree) currently on the cover of Vanity Fair a bimbo? Or would it be rude, ludicrous, wrong and pathetic? Nothing about this is hard.”
“Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”
“Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!”
Source: Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet
“Would it be possible to speak to this Universe person?"
"I'm sure that they will understand that there is a personality conflict." It was time to bump my complaint to upper management.
"No one speaks to the Universe."
"Then how do you know what to do?" I leaned in a little.
"Simple. Through my orders." His eyes started to twitch.
"Which you get how?"
"My memos.”
Source: Karma
“Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?”
“Would it be so terrible for everyone to say what they mean when they do things, and what they want, and why? Wouldn't it make things simpler, and create fewer disasters?
"Lovisa," he said, "now what's going on?"
"I hate everyone who's normal," she said.”
Source: Winterkeep
“Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
...
"Ask me again in the morning.”
“Would it even be possible to add a "suggested wallpaper" feature that analyzes your favored walls and shows similar ones?”
“Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?”
Source: The Demon's Covenant
“Would it hurt to die?”
“Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.”
“Would it kill him to smile every once in a while?” Jesper asked.
“Very possibly.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Would it kill you,” she (the Shinx) called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?”
Source: The Further Labors of Nick
“Would it kill you,” she [the Sphinx] called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?”
Source: The Further Labors of Nick
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier