W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?”
“Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.”
“Wouldn't it have been weird to go to high school with the Pope? You know, somebody did, someone's sitting at home, watching TV in Poland, they see the Pope, they think, "That guy was a jerk! He was so mean to me and now he's Pope? I got a swirly from the Pope!"”
“Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?”
Source: Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
“Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.”
“Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.”
“Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.”
Source: Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Poems, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.”
“Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?”
“Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.”
“Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?”
Source: The lightning thief
“Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?”
Source: Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight
“Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?”
“Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?”
“Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?”
Source: All Rivers Flow to the Sea
“Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.”
“Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.”
“Wouldn't you be mad if I told you to give up on someone you cared about? Just... hand her over to someone who doesn't even deserve her?" Tod gave me a strange, sad look I couldn't interpret, and the blues in his irises shifted subtly for a moment before he got control of them. "Yeah. I guess I would.”
“Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?”
Source: Day by Day with Charles Swindoll
“Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?”
“wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.”
“Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?”
“Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?”
“Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!”
“Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?”
Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian.”
“Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys
and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.”
“Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.”
“Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?”
“Wouldn’t it be amazing, getting up everyday and playing; doing something that you love to do?”
“Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, “Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub”.”
“Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.”
“Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.”
“Wouldst know that poets live again, O traveller, after death?
These words thou readest, lo, I speak! Thy voice is but my breath.”
Source: The Life of Saint Augustine: A Translation of the Sancti Augustini Vita by Possidius, Bishop of Calama
“Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’, which he [Cab Calloway] helpfully explains as ‘the proper way to ask a young lady to go to the movies’. It should be noted here, that if the object of your affections replies ‘Kill me’, they are not requesting to be euthanatised and you should not actually murder them. Kill me is merely the Cab Calloway way of saying ‘Show me a good time’ and is the best response you could have hoped for. Jive was rather confusing in this way.”
Source: The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
“Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.”
“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”
“Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.”
“Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.”
“Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving.”
“Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”
Source: The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces
“Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.”
“Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.”
“Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“Wound embraced is wound turned to ointment.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.”
“Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.”
Source: Vessels of Fire and Glory: Breaking Demonic Spells Over America to Release a Great Awakening