W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?”
“Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?”
“Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.”
“Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.”
Source: Crescendo
“Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?”
“Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?”
“Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent as much energy investing in experiences as we do investing in things?”
“Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?”
“Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.”
“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
Source: Home Chat
“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?”
Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)
“Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.”
“Wouldn't it be great if all of Osama bin Laden's money was tied up in Enron stock?”
“Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?”
“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”
“Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?”
“Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.”
“Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.”
“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?”
“Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?”
“Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?”
“Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.”
“Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.”
Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
“Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.”
“Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.”
“Wouldn't it be just great if somebody could actually get elected without having to spend all that time raising money? Wouldn't it be great if somebody could get elected president without having to pay all the donors back? Wouldn't it be fabulous if somebody could get elected president without this giant due bill?”
“Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.”
“Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.”
Source: DragonQuest: A Novel
“Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?”
“Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?”
Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
“Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.”
Source: Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy
“Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?”
“Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?”
“Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?”
Source: Openly Straight
“Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.”
Source: Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less
“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”
“Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”
“Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration of the absolute shrinking of the middle class, the heroin epidemic, things like that. I don't see any of that.”
“Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.”
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?”
Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.”
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?”
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.”
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.”