W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.”
“Would you rather die, or be unwound?”
Source: Unwind
“Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.”
Source: Unwind
“Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?”
“What kind of question is that? … Why would I have to eat either one, ever? Exactly what type of camping are we doing?”
Source: Love & Other Great Expectations
“Would you rather Google have more cash to do things, or that your neighbor Bob can buy more beer? To some degree it’s better for the world that Bob drinks less beer and some companies have more money.”
Source: sciVive
“Would you rather have a 100 percent chance nothing happens to your Stradivarius, or would you rather have music coming from your Stradivarius? You can’t have both.”
“Would you rather have a moustache made of fingers, or a voice that says everything twice,
everything twice?”
Source: The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith
“Would you rather have a smaller portion of something large or the whole portion of a business that is not going anywhere”
“Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?”
“Would you rather have people be impressed by who you are or respect who you've become?”
“Would you rather I tug your ridiculous shorts down and suck your pretty cock?" The alpha nudged Noah's thighs wider and heart pounding, Noah spread. A moan locked in his throat when Wade brushed his fingertips over Noah's balls. "Or bend you over right here and now?”
Source: Pretty Poison
“Would you rather I was poetic about how I'm charmed by your beauty, even though I can only see half your face? Which, by the way, from what I can see is pleasing. Would you rather I tell you I'm captivated by your eyes? They are a pretty shade of green from what I can tell.'
I started to frown. 'Well, no. I don't want you to lie.'
'None of those things were a lie.' He tugged on the bow as he dipped his head, brushing his lips over mine. The soft contact sent a wave of awareness through me. 'I told you the truth, Princess. I'm intrigued by you, and it's fairly rare anyone intrigues me.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?”
Source: The Robin Sharma Pack
“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
Source: The Only Story
“Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.”
“Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?”
“Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?
(Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)”
“Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?”
“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”
“would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.”
Source: The Nature of Goodness
“Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?”
“Would you really have...?” said Julien.
“Almost certainly,” I said. “I have deep-seated problems with authority figures.”
“But you are one!”
“I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.”
Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather
“Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?”
Source: The Dispossessed
“Would you really rather leave the future to people who can impose their own way simply because they've got power? Or do the X-men continue to stand for something better?!”
Source: X-Treme X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1
“Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?”
Source: The Wells Bequest
“Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.”
“Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German
“Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often thats what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.”
“Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.”
“Would you risk your life for love?”
“Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.”
“Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?"
He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have."
Poppy wondered what was wrong with her, that she should be amused rather than frightened by his confession. "Harry. You're not supposed to court a girl by telling her you're the villain."
He gave her an innocent glance that didn't deceive her in the least. "I'm trying to be honest."
"Perhaps. But you're also making certain that whatever anyone says about you, you've already admitted it. Now you've made all criticism of you ineffectual."
Harry blinked as if she'd surprised him. "You think I'm that manipulative?"
She nodded.
Harry seemed stunned that she could see through him so easily. Instead of being annoyed, however, he stared at her with stark longing. "Poppy, I have to have you.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“Would you say you are number one to everyone? Would you say that to another that is an equal in your field, or to one that you look up and have learned from? If not, why shift your message just to sell and hype.”
“Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.”
“Would you still love your lady friend if you couldn’t marry her?”
“You mean my fiancée?”
He flaps a hand without turning, like the word itself reeks of matrimony.
“Yes, but I’m glad I get to. Even if it weren’t before king and country, I’d marry her. Maybe it’s all symbolic, but I want her to know that we’re truly partners now. And for the rest of our lives.”
Source: The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
“Would you still Try even if failure was inevitable”
“Would you still write the story of us? Me. You. Arcadian."
Tumango ako habang hawak ang kamay ni Gavin. "It might take a while but I will. That's a promise."
"I might ruin your story."
Ngumiti ako habang nananatili na nakatitig sa papalubog na araw. "You're the reason I want to write it."
"Babes."
"Hmm?"
"Sisingilin na kita."
Bago pa ako muling makasagot, naramdaman kong umalis si Gavin mula sa pag kakahilig sa aking balikat. Lumingon ako sa kanya. Nakatitig siya sa akin saka siya ngumisi, the familiar carefree grin that Gavin was known of. Ngisi na hindi ko alam na huling beses ko ng makikita.
That afternoon, while watching the sunset behind the trees, Gavin kissed me on the lips.”
“Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.”
“Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?”
“Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?”
“Would you tell Dank that I will alway love him? That I'm sorry that I can't leave here. I'm protecting those I love. But I will think of him every day and I will hum his song to myself every night as I go to sleep.”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
“Would you that ever find yourself walking the Road, trudging without purpose, seeking some journey's end, I give you this warning. The Road is a living being. She is an enchantress and She has a long reach.”
Source: The Circle and the Cross
“Would you think it wise to step into the ring with someone who has fought for thousands upon thousands of years and never been defeated? Yet, when you decide to challenge the ‘truth,’ that’s exactly who you’re stepping into the ring with.”
“Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.”
Source: Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him. "Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more. "Then trust him with his own," he said simply.”
Source: Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)