W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“Would three boobs be better than two?”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.”
“Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!”
“Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army with
banners”! A consistent Church is an amazing Church—an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp of
godly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that are
what they profess to be, hate the semblance of a lie—whatever shape it wears—and would sooner die than do that which is dishonest, or that which would be degrading to the glory of a Heaven-born race, and to the honor of Him by whose name they have been called! O Christians! You will be the world’s contempt; you will be their despising, and hissing unless you live for one objective!”
“Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!”
“Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.”
Source: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
“Would've been useful when I was about eight," I said. "I used to have wicked nightmares." I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.”
Source: The World Without Us
“Would've, should've, could've. Hindsight is such a bitch.”
Source: The Dead Romantics
“Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.”
“Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.”
“Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?”
“Would we believe their story of the dead, when they return?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?”
“Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.”
“Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!”
“Would we want the headstone over our grave to say, “No point in watching the movie of this person’s life. It was a bore, reality TV at its worst. This person didn’t do anything interesting with his life, and had no good adventures. He did everything conventionally, just going through the same routines as everyone else. He had a couple of girlfriends, got married to one, had children, bought a house, held down a dreary job, paid off his mortgage, retired…died. Millions of others did exactly the same, a story not worth telling, a life not worth living, a movie not worth seeing”
Source: The Last Bling King
“Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?”
Source: Mornings in Jenin
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.”
“Would you accept time stopping just for you? If you do, you will be making a big ethical mistake because you will live forever, but your loved ones will disappear as time progresses!”
“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means of teachings, prayer, admonition? My dear, have you entirely forgotten that story, that story containing so many lessons, that story about Siddhartha, a Brahman's son, which you once told me here on this very spot? Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father's religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowledge, his own search able to keep him safe? Which father, which teacher had been able to protect him from living his life for himself, from soiling himself with life, from burdening himself with guilt, from drinking the bitter drink for himself, from finding his path for himself? Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment? But even if you would die ten times for him, you would not be able to take the slightest part of his destiny upon yourself.”
Source: Siddhartha
“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?"
"Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.”
Source: The Society of S
“Would you appreciate a unicorn if they were as common as horses?”
Source: Comics Will Break Your Heart
“Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.”
“Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell?
Or take your bodies honorless to Hell?
In Heaven you have heard no marriage is,
No white flesh tinder to your lecheries”
Source: Selected poems
“Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“Would you be comfortable travelling in a car or an air plane or maybe in a space shuttle in the future, knowing that the only safety mechanism that the engineers relied upon was positive thinking and visualization of everything being perfect?
Would you feel safe knowing that engineers did not imagine and solve most of the possible negative outcomes that could happen that dramatically increase the chances of an accident?
Would you want to live in a building built by someone who only relied on positive thinking and did not thinking of how to safeguard it from possible disasters? The buildings we live in, the things we travel in and the devices we use are relatively safe today BECAUSE of the positive steps taken as a result of negative and cautious thinking.
Confidence is a great thing but sometimes the lack of it is an even better thing. The fear motivates you to settle for nothing less than excellence.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.”
“Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.”
Source: God's Good News
“Would you be happy if your children replicate you? If not, then change who you’re or don’t bother having kids, but don’t hate them for being you.”
“Would you be immortal, Master?'
I would live long enough to see my work completed. True immortality is a burden, and I scarcely have need of another of those. Upon my back rests the weight of the future. But all things must end, to have any purpose at all. True beauty is found in beauty's end. A saying our gene-father was fond of, once upon a time. Before he lost sight of things.”
“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”
“Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.”
“Would you be my reason to wake up in the morning?
Let's begin by you being the reason why I don't want to sleep.”
“Would you be ok to endure some period of involuntary suffering to have the life you always wanted? If yes, consider that voluntary suffering can give you the same.”
“Would you be shedding tears for McNab’s dead body if he’d been screwing around on you?”
Peabody pursed her lips. “Well, since I’d’ve been the one who killed him, I’d probably be shedding tears for me because you’d be arresting me. And that would really make me sad.”
Source: Strangers in Death
“Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.”
“Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
“Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection (...) and with it I can imagine a whole world.”
Source: Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese
“Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”
“No."
“Well, how about that I needed to see you.”
“Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?”
One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one”
“Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it.
“Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?”
Source: Cold Touch
“Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?”
“Would you believe it, Ariadne?" said Theseus "The Minotaur
scarcely defended himself.”
“Would you believe it? – the instant she clapped eyes on me, she said that she saw I had taken to dyeing my hair! I was never more shocked, for it is quite untrue! It is not dyeing one’s hair merely to restore its colour when it begins to fade a little! I denied it, of course, but all she did was to give the horridest laugh, which made me feel ready to sink, as you may suppose!”
Source: False Colours
“Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?”
“Would you believe me if I told you we can suffer and experience joy at the same time? Have you felt delight even while your muscles are burning during a climb? Is elation felt alongside the pains of childbirth? Can a mountain be simultaneously majestic and rugged? Joy and suffering can coexist in the same space: they can be experienced together.”
Source: Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering
“Would you believe me or think of me as effrontery if I told you that 1.) the meticulously detailed wealth of notes, now being referred to as the Blue Planet Project, are actually the diary entries of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 2.) that they are records that go as far back as 1939, 3.) that when this diary first surfaced in the 1980's more than a decade after his passing, covert gatekeepers of Eisenhower's true legacy removed any pertinent Intel that would shine light on just who he was; beyond that which we've been systematically led to believe, and last but not least 4.) that he obtained this information during his time as the first and only human functionary ever to be accepted as a representative on the Council of Galaxies—an off-world body made up of countless alien species from innumerable extraterrestrial worlds that span the furthest recesses of our multifaceted macrocosm?”
Source: Imperium Heirs
“Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.”