W Quotes
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“Was she the one who had changed, or had he? Or had both of them stayed too much the same in a world that was shifting faster and faster around them? Maybe they were too old to be what they had been. The problem, Ely thought, was that he wasn’t quite sure what they were supposed to be now.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“Was sich einmal gefunden hat, das findet sich immer wieder.”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“Was Sie nicht sofort gespürt haben, reden Sie sich im Nachhinein nur ein.”
Source: Leinsee
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province?
'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.'
'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all?
Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway.”
Source: Matched
“Was sollen wir anfangen? Wenn wir einen Mann liebhaben, liefern wir uns ihm aus. Wir trennen uns von allem, was vorher war, und kommen zu ihm. "Da bin ich", sagen wir freundlich lächelnd. "Ja", sagt er, "da bist du", und kratzt sich hinterm Ohr. Allmächtiger, denkt er, nun habe ich sie auf dem Hals. Leichten Herzens schenken wir ihm, was wir haben. Und er flucht. Die Geschenke sind ihm lästig. Erst flucht er leise, später flucht er laut. Und wir sind allein wie nie zuvor.”
Source: Fabian: die Geschichte eines Moralisten
“Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Was Superstorm Sandy caused by greenhouse warming of the planet? In a word, no. Individual storms arise from specific conditions in the atmosphere. Since records have been kept, hurricanes have varied in number and intensity each season with cycles going up and coming down. The temptation to attribute any specific weather event to global warming distracts us from considering and adopting adaptive strategies, such as improving and expanding irrigation for agriculture and the water supply for cities, that will serve us well when climate changes inevitably arrives on our doorstep.”
Source: Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
“Was that a tattoo I saw on your back?” He asked.
“None of your business.”
“I just didn’t peg you for the tramp stamp type.”
“It’s not a tramp stamp. It’s my F-holes,” I corrected. His eyes had widened before he let out a long, deep laugh.
“Jesus, Henley.”
“For a violin, you A-hole.”
I turned around, raising my shirt high enough on my lower back to reveal two curved lines on either side of my spine. I jumped when the pad of his finger ran over the design leaving a trail of goosebumps in its wake.
“Wow,” he mumbled, and I turned back around to face him, letting the hem of my shirt fall from my hands.
“What? You think it’s stupid.”
“No… no. I think that’s the sexiest tattoo I’ve ever seen. How often does someone get to finger your strings?”
Source: Shameless
“Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...”
Source: The Mayan Prophecy
“Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?”
Source: Between the Lines
“Was that all it took?"
"What?" she asked, completely bewildered.
"To shut you up," he clarified with a definite grin this time. "All it took was agreeing with you."
She glared at him. "If you'd ever tried agreeing with me before, you'd have known that," she snapped.
"I had to wait until you were right about something," he replied, then hurried to open the door before she could smack him, which she dearly wanted to do.”
Source: Murder on Waverly Place
“Was that amazing?” she demanded. “That was amazing,” I agreed. It’s hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you’re both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.”
“Was that—did she just grin at me? To me? A moment of stillness in this moment of pause. Without speaking, we let our gazes wander slow, groping to confirm relief in the other. There's a subdued excitement for the oncoming sharing of whatever's waiting for us behind that heavy iron door, exclusive—two solitary embers, isolated in their separate pits, far away but fanned by the same wind, the same night, alone with the night, their respective camps all gone to sleep, flaring softly cradled calling, out against the great dark backdrop of the great unknown.”
“Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.”
“Was that it? The great risk of belonging to someone else? Someone who could hurt you. Someone who could leave you. Someone you could lose. Someone you could love, and make all those other things a thousand times worse.
Was that why receiving a heart felt like having to give her own away?”
Source: Jo & Laurie
“Was that life? Well then, once more!”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Was that not the way it ought to be? The beauty of Bruges lay in being dead. From the top of the belfry it appeared completely dead to Borluut. He did not want to go back down ever again. His love for the town was greater, was endless. From now on it was a kind of frenzy, his final sensual pleasure. Constantly climbing high above the world, he started to enjoy death. There is danger in rising too high, into the unbreathable air of the summits. Disdain for the world, for life itself brings its own punishment.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“Was that part of faith, the willingness to step into the unknown and simply believe that God would be there with us? Would I be called on to do that for Mila? Or for Anna? Would I be able to take that step into thin air and believe that God will be with me no matter what?”
Source: Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
“Was that pity? I think it was. No wonder, I even pity myself. Will the pity make her love me? Make her take me home with her and look after me like the plant? Fucking bastard smug plant.”
Source: Nineteen Seventy Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town
“Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love.”
Source: Gertrude
“Was that really necessary Skye?” I tried to hide my glee.
“No, but it sure was fun” she winked.
“She hit me, she fucking hit me” Lily screamed.
“Oh, don’t be so dramatic darling, I was helping, you was experiencing shock”
“Helping? Helping, you hit me”
‘Yes, darling, tragic” Skye rolled her eyes at Lily.”
Source: Under Her Spell
“Was that supposed to be funny? “Why is she saying stuff like that to you?” I bit out.
Caro rolled her eyes.
“Oh, don’t be such a prude, Sebastian! It’s just a joke. She’s always nagging me to find a man.”
“What about me?” I growled, my tone angrier than I’d intended.
Caro huffed quietly. “I haven’t told anyone about you. I like having you to myself. But I will, if you want me to.”
Was she ashamed of me? Was this just a summer fling to her after all?
The old fears rushed back—I was a secret, her dirty little secret. Again.”
Source: Semper Fi
“Was that the girl who went to Manhattan with you?" asked Marcus. "I think we owe her a cookie."
"I think we owe her a whole damn bakery," said Xochi. "If I wasn't hip deep in mud, I would kiss her on the mouth.”
Source: Partials
“Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?”
Source: The Unfinished World and Other Stories
“Was that the way God was with His children? Did He drive them through difficulties, up steep mountains, because He cared and was leading them to better pastures?”
Source: To Tame a Cowboy
“Was that too much too fast, he asks. I thought you wanted me to, I thought that's why you came-- why did you come?
The fountain is in full flair, sending water down the terraces to froth in the lily pad pond below. From this point we can see all the way to the White House and all the buildings between, locked in place, unmoved. I came because you have showed me something inside me that I can't control, because now the world before with its rules and requirements is not enough, I want to say, but I cannot speak.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?”
Source: Three plays
“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?
How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?”
Source: Reaper Man
“Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Was that you or the duck?”
“Was that you, Pooky Bear?”
Source: World After
“Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"”
“Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?”
Source: Third Helpings
“Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?”
“Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.”
Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
“Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.”
Source: the last year of confusion
“Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?”
“Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...”
Source: Principia Ethica
“Was the fun in the fall?”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Was the god of marriage and birth offering her an olive branch? Meg took a deep breath and tried to keep her words in check for a change while she deferred to Hera. "What do you suggest?"
Hera continued to look at her. "That depends. Are you in love with my son?"
"Love?" Meg took a step back. She immediately thought back to something she'd said to Hercules as she lay dying back in Thebes. People always do crazy things when they're in love.
Was that what this was? Love?
Was she in love with a god?
No.
Yes.
Possibly.”
Source: Go the Distance
“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Was the government to prescribe us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." - Thomas Jefferson”
“Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?”
“Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments?”
“Was the man a ghost, a figment of my imagination, or something else? I didn’t know, but it was a memory I’d carry with me my entire life, and eventually, I figured out that the man I saw on top of Scafell Pike that day was….”
Source: Addicted to Time
“Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.”
Source: Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel
“Was the purpose of marriage procreation and the objective of a child’s life to hold on to each parent and keep them together through a combination of guilt, love, duty, and fear?”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Was the sky always this shade of magenta?”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“Was the tragedy of a Hindu in the twentieth century Kashmir any different from the agony of the Muslims or Jews of Granada, hundreds of years ago?”
Source: Songs of the Reed
“Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?”