W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?”
“Would you try it?" Grace asked him.
Julian gave a frustrated sigh, as if he were ready to shake both of them.
Looking greatly peeved, he leaned his head back and said quietly to the ceiling, "Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form."
Grace threw her hands up. "Gee, I can't imagine why he wouldn't respond to that.”
Source: Fantasy Lover
“Would you walk away from Omelas?”
Source: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Would you walk to the edge of the ocean
Just to fill my jar with sand
Just in case I get the notion
To let it run through my hand”
“Would you want anyone to read, See or hear...
that picture, video, blog, quote, audio or rant...
tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or in five years?
Then don't post it today.”
“Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.”
“Would you want to be marketed to with the same tactics that you use to market to others? If not, then consider changing the message.”
“Would You Wear My Eyes?”
Source: Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
“Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.”
Source: The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism
“Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —” “Gabriel.” Gideon’s voice was a reprimand to his brother. “Do not speak to Will in that manner.”
“Would your city weep if your church did not exist?”
“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”
“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”
“Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?”
Source: The Human Script
“Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Wouldn’t it be awful to have wings that didn’t work? Wouldn’t it be worse to have wings that do work, and not be able to use them?”
Source: Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories
“Wouldn't it be better to avoid the thrust of the dagger which, I knew, with the atavistic insight of a Jewish child, would in a few minutes be plunged into my heart?”
Source: Reunion
“Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?”
“Wouldn't it be convenient
if I stayed forever locked here,
turning my head
as he signs his name
to my work, never caring
if anyone knows
who actually bled
onto the canvas?”
Source: Blood Water Paint
“Wouldn’t it be healthier and more meaningful if we lived in communities in which openness and acceptance of difference are instilled in the society in organic and genuine ways rather than imposed on people at a later stage in their lives as job descriptions?”
“Wouldn't it be like really cool and kick ass if people demonstrated compassion for others on a daily..”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in return? Or a mother, or a brother, or a good friend? Wouldn't these be the promises that made life worth while?”
Source: The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
“Wouldn’t it be nice if people could keep their rain on their own parade?”
Source: Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?”
Source: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Wouldn't it be nice to return to some of the old theories? Soul and body? The four humours?'
'Oh, they never worked.'
'Of course they did. Everything works in its own period. Don't you think that people were cured by medieval doctors, soaking up black melancholy bile with white salpetre? We could no more use their remedies than they could use ours, but they did work once. That's what you have to remember. Of course some people say that they might work again.”
Source: The House of Doctor Dee
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a natural communicator and know exactly what, when, why, and how to speak so that your message is conveyed and received as you intend?”
“Wouldn’t it calm your spirits to be reading a book instead?’ Sarah suggested.
Mina’s expression indicated that this was a notion so self-evident as to be stupid, and was about to explain why.
‘Of course I would rather be reading. I would spend all my days reading if I could. But for reasons passing understanding, embroidery is considered a desirable accomplishment in a prospective wife, and therefore it is incumbent upon me to master it, such is my lot. So for pity’s sake, bring tea or I shall run mad.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment.
“I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.”
Source: Eidolon
“Wouldn't it make more sense to conserve your energy?"
"You wouldn't say that to a dancer, would you? My spirit needs a strong house or else it leaks out all over the place. Whirlpool?"
"Seriously?”
Source: The Art of Falling
“Wouldn’t narcissism be valuable from a Darwinian perspective? From an evolutionary perspective, the narcissist actually has the best plumage and appears to be the best mate. A purely evolutionary view does not account for what we know about the value of authenticity, self-regulation, discipline, loyalty, and community.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“Wouldn't talking about something make it better understood?”
Source: Forget Me Not
“Wouldn't the crow, that ubiquitous trickster, make a more compelling and accurate national symbol for the United States than the bald eagle?”
Source: War Dances
“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”
Source: Hydranos
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?”
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”
“Wouldn’t think of it.” Eve grinned fiercely.
“And just FYI, I’m the bad cop. I’m always the bad cop.”
Source: Purity in Death
“Wouldn’t this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
‘I know something good about you,’
And then treat us that way?”
“Wouldn't want to live anywhere I couldn't look out my window and see hills.”
Source: Send No Blessings
“Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.”
Source: The Quiet American
“Wouldn’t you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where the monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too.”
Source: Blackout
“Wouldn't you like right now to last forever?' Roger said as we lolled on the picnic slope. The afterglow of it lasted for days, for we bragged about it as if we'd just ascended K-2.”
Source: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
“Wouldn’t you like to arrive to any event or situation with a sense of confidence and ease that things are as they need to be?”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Wouldn't you like to be in your own shadow's place? He doesn't suffer from any of the troubles you do! Maybe he, not you, is living the best life, he is living existence without existing!”
“Wouldn’t you like to believe you’re the center of someone’s universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn’t matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?”
Source: Vampires of the Chesapeake: Kian MacTiernan
“Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.”
Source: Deathless
“Wouldn’t you like to know,” I smiled. “I travel. Shit happens.”
Source: Slayers
“Wouldn’t you like to see the dead, just as the most special children do? Wouldn’t you like to converse with the departed and learn their secrets? Odysseus managed it. So can all of us. We can all get on the black ship and sail across Oceanus to Cimmeria, where we will find the land of dreams and its astounding neighbor, the land of the dead. We are a divine species. Isn’t it about time we became gods? What are we waiting for?”
Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.”
Source: Knight's Fork
“Wouldn’t you want future generations to be watching a movie about what you did at this critical juncture in human history? Every generation has the chance to produce heroes. There is no law preventing you from being one of them. Too many people think that heroism is something other people do. No, it’s your responsibility.”
Source: NWO
“Wouldn’t you want to know so that you don’t make the same mistakes again?’
Realm laughs, sounding bitter. 'That’s the great thing, James Murphy. Some mistakes are destined to repeat themselves.”
Source: The Program