W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.”
Source: The last battle
“Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.”
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
“Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?”
“Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.”
Source: The Portable Mark Twain
“Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?”
“Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?”
Source: The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God
“Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.”
“Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?”
“Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family, like baby birds, full of sugar, corn products, chemicals, and meat from really, really unhappy animals?”
Source: Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old Macdonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago?”
Source: The Shadow Lantern
“Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Would it...would it be all right...if I loved you forever?”
Source: This Quiet Sky
“Would Jesus build a wall? Would Mother Teresa? No, of course not. They would welcome the refugees and give them free universal healthcare.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“Would like to join me? (Astrid) I think I’d look strange in a bikini. (Zarek) Was that a joke? Can it be you made a real joke? (Astrid) Yeah, I must be possessed or something. (Zarek)”
“Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers—in a word, better citizens”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & A Vindication of the Rights of Men: And A Vindication of the Rights of Men
“Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.”
“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.”
“Would my soul remember him? A small part of me prayed I wouldn’t, but the rest knew better. I loved him. Deeply. Such a love was not something of just the heart and mind. It wasn’t something to be felt and eventually forgotten, to be touched without it in return touching you. No...this love was something else. Something irrevocable. It was something of the soul.”
Source: Serpent & Dove
“Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?”
Source: Middlemarch
“Would not the characters of her many novels be the search, if not the expression, of her many selves? Add the thousands of letters sent, as if cast upon the sea in so many bottles, in the search for understanding, for love... (...)”
Source: Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand
“Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?”
Source: Memories
“Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.”
“Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?”
“Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?”
“Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”
“Would people please stop telling me Santa Claus doesn't exist? I met him when I was a kid, surrounded by teenaged elves n stuff, one of them had a camera, and he was fun and smelt of fags n beer, I remember his big red nose too, even the hairs in his nostrils. You see I met him, sat on his lap chatted and he gave me a toy car, n yeah it was in a market, but I know he was the real Santa........”
“Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.”
“Would sex become any more pleasurable if penetrated with love? Why at all this doubt, as if love would take that any deeper into her. Hah, hah! But, it’s the lust that vests the thrusts with power and any woman would know that for sure.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?”
“Would she cry, and wish that she had the right to put her arms around his neck and comfort him?”
Source: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Would she do that? End a relationship over a person’s ability for invention? Would she keep a relationship going simply because she didn’t know what a man’s next sentence would be?”
Source: Magnetism (Book 6) Venus as She Ages Collection
“Would she flee if she knew the thoughts I kept in my mind? My hands went to her flat stomach. My fingers sank in the soft tan flesh around her waist. One day her belly would be full of my children and her mind would only be focused on me.”
Source: Escape
“Would she go to Berlin? Wearing her turquoise dress and no underwear, in the company of the sexiest man she had ever seen, including those men she had only seen on TV or in the movies?”
Source: Two Months and Three Days
“Would she suddenly grow into maturity and discard me as a relic from a failed past, the way I'd hoped to do to her when my year of sleep was over?”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?”
“Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?”
Source: The Twelve
“Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”
Source: Bittersweet
“Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
Source: Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Would that everyone might know that I would be already damned if it were not for Mary!”
“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.”
“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.”
“Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)