W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?”
Source: The Secret Life of a Fool: One Man's Raw Journey from Shame to Grace
“Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl”
Source: The First Bad Man
“Was I lonely? Was it easy as something psychological? Were my gross, pathetic problems all too human?”
Source: Monsters in My Mind
“Was I more like my father than I thought? No. The beauty of the ephemeral was in its impermanence; I couldn't have let myself feel for Blake had I not known there would be an end. And I could admit it now: I did feel for him. There was safety here, at the end of our short story, and it made me bold.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“Was I nervous? Maybe a little, because I didn’t know what my new life would bring. But more than anything, I felt strong. Brave. Independent. Free. And ready to take on whatever I’d find on the other side of the horizon.”
Source: On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
“Was I not always his right-hand man, his lieutenant? Banquo or Benvolio or Oliver - little difference.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“Was I on something? Yes, love. The strongest drug there is.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Was I really taking dating advice from Baba Yaga?”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“was i searching for a dancer whose name i did not know, or was i searching for the dancing part of myself?”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Was I simply using a psychological defense mechanism to protect myself from unbearable grief? That’s what some people might say. But I disagree. Psychological defense mechanisms are supposed to protect you from pain, and I was in terrible pain. I was heartbroken, overwhelmed by grief, despair, and loss. Knowing that Bao was coming back to me did nothing to ease the heartbreak of having lost him. That might not make sense, but that’s how it was.”
Source: Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?
“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?
( Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him. ) He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. ( Pause. ) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. ( He listens. ) But habit is a great deadener. ( He looks again at Estragon. ) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. ( Pause. ) I can't go on! ( Pause. ) What have I said?”
Source: Waiting for Godot
“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?”
“Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company.”
“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes, now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
Source: A Deadly Education
“Was I sticking around because I really wanted to be with Austin, or because I was afraid no one else would want to be with me?”
Source: Damaged Goods
“Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a world of spells and anathemas was springing up from their ruins. What was terrifying about this whole affair was the ease with which I passed from one universe to another without feeling out of place. Such a smooth transition. I had gone to bed a docile, courteous boy, and I’d awakened with an inextinguishable rage lodged in my very flesh. I carried my hatred like a second nature; it was my armor and my shirt of Nessus, my pedestal and my stake; it was all that remained to me in this false, unjust, arid, and cruel life.”
“Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.”
“Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”
“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”
Source: The Town in Bloom
“Was I totally against the idea of having kids with Kat one day? Other than breaking out in hives at the thought of that, the idea wasn't too horrible. Of course, I wanted the white picket fence bullshit...if it occurred a good ten years from now, and the kids didn't have weird bowl haircuts and couldn't Jedi mind-screw people.”
Source: Origin
“Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?”
Source: My Soul to Keep
“Was ich als Wahrheit finde, wie es auch immer laute, soll mir willkommen sein. Ich will wissen. Mit derselben Sicherheit, mit welcher ich darauf rechne, daß dieser Boden mich tragen wird, wenn ich darauf trete, daß dieses Feuer mich verbrennen würde, wenn ich mich ihm näherte, will ich darauf rechnen können, was ich selbst bin, und was ich sein werde. Und sollte man etwa dies nicht können, so will ich wenigstens das wissen, daß man es nicht kann: Und selbst diesem Ausgange der Untersuchung will ich mich unterwerfen, wenn er sich mir als Wahrheit entdeckt.”
“Was ich eben gern hätte, wäre Würde. Dem Alter einer Frau Würde zu geben, und nicht, es krampfhaft zu verdrängen. Sich so dagegen zu verhalten, als dürfte es nicht sein.”
“Was ich möchte, ist, jede Menge Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Weißt du, zu Hause geht das nicht mehr. Ich meine, so gut wie alles, was ich neu lerne, steht in einem Buch, was schon interessant ist, aber nicht dasselbe, denn wenn mir diese Sachen passieren würden, würde ich sie vielleicht ganz anders erleben.”
Source: Confusion
“Was ich sehen kann, kann ich auch erreichen!”
Source: A.U.R.O.R.A. vs. E.L.I.X.A.R. Deluxe Edition Band 1: Das Duell der KI
“Was ihnen im Gedächtnis bleibt
sind keine Heldentaten
sondern Taten aus Liebe
und dein lachendes Gesicht
trotz aller inneren Kriege.”
“was in everyday attire with sand-colored jeans and a denim-blue buttoned-down shirt with his lean muscles defined underneath and exposed with his rolled-up sleeves. His tannish skin was peppered with freckles and he was bestowed with a natural rouge on his face; matched with his dry wavy dirty blonde hair he looked like a scarecrow that had given up the farm in favor of greener racing pastures.”
Source: Whisky Hernandez
“Was innen nicht glänzt kann außen nicht funkeln.”
“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Was ist denn ein Dementor?"
Also echt, ich fasse es nicht. "Nora, du bist nicht mehr meine Schwester."
"Ist also irgendein Harry-Potter-Zeugs", sagte sie.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe!”
Source: Philotas
“Was ist Magie anderes als eine Technik, die die meistens Menschen nicht verstehen - noch nicht oder nicht mehr?”
“Was ist meine Absicht?”
Source: Was ich vom Leben gelernt habe
“Was ist schon das Licht der kleinen Schreibtischlampe gegen das Licht der Sonne? Die Sonne bescheint die ganze Welt. Und Lucias Schreibtischlampe schafft es nicht mal, ein Zimmer zu erhellen. Immer wieder gibt es dunkle Ecken, die der Mensch allein nicht durchschauen kann.”
Source: Lucias Aufbrüche
“Was ist, wenn einer zufällig von einem Herzen besessen ist, dem nicht zu trauen ist? Wenn dein tiefstes Inneres dich singend zum Scheiterhaufen lockt, sollst du dich dann lieber abwenden, dir die Ohren mit Wachs verstopfen, den perversen Glanz ignorieren, von dem dein Herz dir zubrüllt? [...] Oder ist es besser, dich - wie Boris - kopfüber und lachend in das heilige Wüten zu stürzen, das deinen Namen ruft?”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.”
“Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot on a wooden lawn chair. Daniel sputtered a laugh and Sean tried to hide his. "Naturist, not naturalist," I said. "It means nudist." Corey leaped up and spun. "You mean old, naked butts sat on those chairs?”
“Was it a craving for salt, or for pain?”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices?”
Source: The Coming Storm
“Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.”
Source: The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls?”
“Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?”
“Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?”
“Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?”
“Was it a moment of indecision or was it a moment of redemption. Redemption long overdue and long unacknowledged? They didn’t know. He suddenly went at her mouth and she claimed it as if it was never supposed to be elsewhere.
It was stormy. It was fierce. His manhood shafted through his loose night pajamas challenging her even beyond the thickness of her bath robe, which was cast aside in one unsparing sweep of his hand, revealing the quavering ripeness of her fulsome breasts. After a moment of awe, he went at them with unquenched ferocity.
First he devoured her there itself, against the wall, on the carpet. Within moments their frenzied hands tore away each other’s underpants with unapologetic fury and then in one smooth motion of a dancer’s lucidity, he lifted her and like a great performer of an opera, placed her on the bed. The inviting altar of desire and passion and longing. Now as they claimed each other, there was unhurried fluidity in their motion. Tears of pain and love in their eyes. Ecstasy of carnal compatibility in their fusion. Symphony of sensuality in their strokes and when he finally exploded inside her, she had gone aflame with matching uncontrollability.
It was a heavenly union which in one go had robbed them of their beings, their earth, their universe, their past, their present, their future. In one instant, they had undone what was done and had done what was ‘not done’.”
“Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.”
“Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?”
Source: My Life in France
“Was it a thought of Jack that brought the frown across her face, Sebastien wondered, or was he casting his own emotions on her?”
Source: Seven for a Secret
“was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?”