W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”
“Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.”
“Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.”
“Wanting the man who overthrew my father is a mistake
Instead, I’m sitting here at his desk, fingering myself like the dirty little slut I can’t help but be”
Source: Desperate Measures
“Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.”
“Wanting things was a substitute for wanting people, one of the best possible substitutes.”
Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.”
“Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'”
“Wanting to be accepted is something I like a lot of people can relate to.”
“Wanting to be an artist and being one are different. Perhaps I am just like everyone else and my disappointment is desiring to be special but not being special at all. Perhaps my life's purpose is to square myself with this.”
Source: I'm a Fan
“WANTING to be anything is the whole point of feminism. HAVING TO BE SOMETHING is what feminists fight against, or at least the ones I know.”
Source: You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
“Wanting to be human too, I sought for evidence that I was; but if that's what it took, to make a weapon and kill with it, then evidently I was either extremely defective as a human being, or not human at all.
That's right, they said. What you are is a woman. Possibly not human at all, certainly defective.”
Source: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
“Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.”
“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
“Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.”
“Wanting to be loved back isn't a very high expectation.”
“Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.”
“Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.”
“Wanting to be somebody is rather vague, being yourself is quite specific.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
“Wanting to be through with this quickly, I leaned forward and kissed him.
Almost. I lost my nerve halfway there, somewhere around the moment I noticed he had a freckle next to his eye and wondered ridiculously if that was something he would remove if I asked it of him, and instead of a proper kiss, I merely brushed my lips against his. It was a shadow of a kiss, cool and insubstantial, and I almost wish I could be romantic and say it was somehow transformative, but in truth, I barely felt it. But then his eyes came open, and he smiled at me with such innocent happiness that my ridiculous heart gave a leap and would have answered him instantly, if it was the organ in charge of my decision-making.
"Choose whenever you wish," he said. "No doubt you will first need to draw up a list of pros and cons, or perhaps a series of bar plots. If you like, I will help you organize them into categories."
I cleared my throat. "It strikes me that this is all pointless speculation. You cannot marry me. I am not going to be left behind, pining for you, when you return to your kingdom. I have no time for pining."
He gave me an astonished look. "Leave you behind! As if you would consent to that. I would expect to be burnt alive when next I returned to visit. No, Em, you will come with me, and we will rule my kingdom together. You will scheme and strategize until you have all my councillors eating out of your hand as easily as you do Poe, and I will show you everything---everything. We will travel to the darkest parts of my realm and back again, and you will find answers to questions you have never even thought to ask, and enough material to fill every journal and library with your discoveries.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.”
“Wanting to be with you was a mistake, but an even bigger mistake was not knowing my worth and believing you deserved me.”
“Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.”
“Wanting to care for someone, to put their needs above yours, is love.”
Source: Pompous Paramedic
“wanting to change a person
who doesn't want to change himself
is like cosmetic surgery
on cancer patients”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Wanting to check off every box on her list, Hudson took control. Gentle at first, building from a slow burn to surface-of-the-sun. They moved together, faster and more frantic, their momentum catching fire. Desperate for leverage, he leaned her back against the table, and they quickly became a sweaty tangle of arms and legs.
Touching, sliding, exploring.
He knew when it happened, when she forgot about tallies and checkmarks and gave herself over to the possibilities.
Gave herself over to him.
Her hands slid up and down his spine, her eyes shining up as she started to tighten around him. The air burned his lungs, so he gave up on breathing. His chest felt too big for his skin, his knees began to buckle, and he wanted to run away and come home all at the same time.
Her legs pulled him down until there wasn't even a breath between them. She buried her face into the curve of his shoulder, holding him as though he was one of the good ones.
For the first time in his life, he was determined to be that guy--- to erase any hesitation she'd had about them.
"I'm almost there," she moaned, clenching and drawing him all the way in, which drove him right over the edge.
The pressure built, hotter and higher, and he fought to keep himself in check, but her thighs tightened around his waist until he thought he'd pass out and then, hallelujah, she began to shake. She pushed up as he came down, sinking so deep he knew he never wanted to leave.”
Source: The Café Between Pumpkin and Pie
“Wanting to cry doesn't mean you can.”
Source: The Siren
“Wanting to die with a dead partner might not be a show of love but more of a show of dependency.”
Source: Rethinking Love
“Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.”
“Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.”
“Wanting to end my curse isn't the same as wanting to give in to an asshole. I don't care if god really did choose you. You're no worthier than any of the rest of us. No worthier than him.
We're all god's monsters.
All made in his goddamn image. If he wants his fucking world back . . . tell him to come down here and take it. If he's got the goddamn balls.”
Source: The Goddamned, Vol. 1: Before the Flood
“Wanting to get married for the sake of the title is shortsighted and ends in getting fired.”
Source: Blood Sugar
“Wanting to help was not enough. To rescue a Jew in these conditions, where no structure supported the effort and where the penalty was death, required something stronger than character, something greater than a worldview. Generous people took humane decisions, yet still failed. Probably most men and women of goodwill who were able to take the initial risk failed after a month, a week, a day. It was an era where to be good meant not only the avoidance of evil but a total determination to act on behalf of a stranger, on a planet where hell, not heaven, was the reward for goodness.”
Source: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Wanting to intrude on Lech’s solitude, which was all Lech had left that he considered valuable.”
Source: Bad Actors
“Wanting to kill, wanting to die, in your head they are the same colour, and the door to one leads to the other.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.”
Source: Meditations from a Movable Chair
“Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.”
“Wanting to leave communist Russia is all fine and well | Actually leaving the country is where you might run into a few setbacks. Obtaining a visa for a simple vacation outside the soviet block was a long and arduous process. To immigrate to a free society was about as easy as finding whiskey in a church.”
Source: Career Criminal: My Life in the Russian Mob Until the Day I Died
“Wanting to leave is enough.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“Wanting to not feel anything in response to physical and mental beatdowns is a normal response to systemic oppression.
When the pain is just too much, overeating leaves you feeling sedated. This is a useful short-term coping mechanism. But the problem is the effect doesn’t last.”
Source: Decolonizing Wellness
“Wanting to play God first requires one to believe that there isn't any or that it is actually you, while claiming to represent God may very well be the next 'best' thing.”
“Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.”
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
“Wanting to say and hear the words again, that can never again be said or heard. To return to the house once more, and not find it dark and empty, but airy and bright again with open windows. To spend an afternoon together, playing with the dog, eating dinner, doing nothing, only being together, just once more.”
Source: Intermezzo
“Wanting to slow down and savour as much as possible.”
“Wanting to talk about your pain without annoying people, the worst feeling known to mankind”
“Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name