W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Was this a bad thing for a Christian to be doing? Probably. On the other hand, it had never occurred to me to ask the Methodist minister if he had a ritual in place to sever a blood bond between a woman and a vampire.”
Source: Dead Reckoning
“Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.”
“Was this a relief? It should have been, but somehow it seemed foreboding, a sign along with all the other signs that the things we depended on were changing.”
Source: Borne
“Was this adulthood? This pruning of dreams to be practical?”
“Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.”
Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be sacrificed on an altar of corruption, merely that a lofty family be spared discomfiture? Oh, this was tenfold more abominable than the crime itself, that high authority should wink at it!”
“Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.”
“Was this new self awareness a gift or a curse?”
“Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.”
Source: Maximum Ride: Nevermore
“Was this really friendship? I have my doubts.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
“Was this, she thought, what happened when one made friends with a married woman? One automatically got the husband too? - like a crochet pattern, coming free with a magazine?”
Source: The Paying Guests
“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”
Source: Married by Morning
“Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?”
“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”
Source: May We Be Forgiven
“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--
''[kisses her]''
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!--
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.
I will be Paris, and for love of thee,
Instead of Troy, shall Wertenberg be sack'd;
And I will combat with weak Menelaus,
And wear thy colours on my plumed crest;
Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,
And then return to Helen for a kiss.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter
When he appear'd to hapless Semele;
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms;
And none but thou shalt be my paramour!”
Source: Dr. Faustus
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”
“Was this the reception his action would get from the world? Of course, he despised the world as whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least.”
Source: Support Your Local Monster Hunter
“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?”
Source: Dunbar
“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing all your mistakes had consequences? Peter made mistakes all the time— he was thoughtless; he hurt people. But it never troubled him, not for a moment. He forgot all about it in an instant. That was being a boy.”
Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
“Was this what agitation looked like in a goddess?”
Source: The Red-Stained Wings
“Was this what being an older sister was like? Wanting to yell at someone most of the time but still be willing to jump in front of a car for them? If so, it was awful.”
Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
“Was this what fame was like? Like a permanent bittersweet cocktail of worship and assault? It was no wonder so many famous people went off the rails when the rails veered in every direction. It was like being slapped and kissed at the same time.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was he making the violin say it? Was he deliberately creating those long, pure liquid notes to say that beauty meant nothing because it came from the dispair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the desair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and a beauty then was a horrid irony?”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“Was this what I wanted, the rest of my days being laid out for me? A life not of my choosing. Would I be able to live it out here, in this isolation, six months on an island, the days unfolding one into another, a series of Russian dolls, diminishing in their intensity and diminishing me as well. Would I be diminished? Or was this what I needed, to live here undisturbed for the rest of my life and never have to interact with the fractiousness of city living ever again?”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Was this what it felt like to hit the jackpot? Because if it came even close to this feeling it was no wonder people got addicted to gambling.”
Source: A Thousand Cuts
“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from the tube or staying the night alone in the house without their boyfriend?
No, fuck that. I would not be that person.”
Source: The Woman in Cabin 10
“Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?”
“Was this what the Emperor had felt, when he saw what Horus and Fulgrim had become? He wanted to hold her, to clasp her to him, until she was again what she had once been. Proof of his sanity, in an insane universe. ‘Do you remember when I taught you the proper way to hold a scalpel, my child? When I showed you how to flense tissue from bone?’
She stared at the child in the nutrient-tank. ‘No,’ she said, and her voice was small. So small.”
“Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?”
“Was tut die Seele eigentlich, wenn der Körper mit einem anderen Körper verschmilzt?”
Source: The Joke
“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.”
“Was uns die Liebe jetzt gibt, wird einmal zur schönsten Erinnerung.”
“Was uns die Liebe jetzt gibt,
wird einmal zur schönsten
unserer Erinnerung.”
“Was using “dead-man’s-toe” morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?”
“Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Was versprochen wurde, kann rückgängig gemacht werden, und was geschehen ist, kann ungeschehen gemacht werden. Nichts ist sicher, nur … Ich will sie.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Was wahres Glück ist, weiß ein Mann erst, wenn er verheiratet ist.“
“Das stimmt“, sagte Onkel Nilsson. “Und dann ist es zu spät.”
“Was…was that a cow?”
Source: Cytonic
“Was, wenn Heimat ein ewiger Kreislauf des Suchens, Findens und wieder Verlierens ist?”
Source: Like water in your hands
“Was, wenn ich euch sage, dass wir in unserer Zeit, ausgestattet allein mit drei Hilfsmitteln, einer Enzyklopädie, einem Blatt Papier und einem Bleistift, wie im Spiel alle Rätsel unserer Geschichte in einer Totalperspektive bis zur abgründigen Klarheit auflösen können? Von den Weltaltern der Antike bis zum letzten Goldenen Zeitalter der Menschheit, die großen Prophezeiungen und das Geheimnis des Bösen. Sodass alles, was fragwürdig war, fraglos wird: die Apokalypse! – Das haltet ihr für ganz unmöglich? – Ich sage euch: Ihr kennt das Aleph nicht. Und von den Zeiten versteht ihr nichts. Das Aleph aber und die Neue Ordnung der Zeiten sind eins.”
Source: Novus Ordo: Eine Einführung in die Apokalypse oder Geometrie der Endzeit
“Was wir heute als Volatilität und Instabilität der Märkte bezeichnen, hat damit zu tun, dass die Vertrauensgrundlagen der Ökonomie inzwischen so tief erschüttert sind, dass im Grunde nur noch diejenigen wirklich Geschäfte machen können, die auch zu verlieren bereit sind. Das sogenannte spekulative Kapital und die Spekulanten sind diejenigen, die nicht vom Vertrauen ausgehen, sondern von der Gewinnchance - sie sind die eigentlichen Spieler.
Die allmähliche Transformation von der vertrauensbasierten Ökonomie in die Spielerökonomie, die eine sozialpsychologische Umstilisierung ganzer Gesellschaften einschließt, ist ein Teil des Dramas, das wir heute erleben.”
Source: Gespräche über Gott Geist und Geld
“Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Massenmedien”
Source: The Reality of the Mass Media
“Was wirklich zählt, ist Intuition”
“Was wissen sie davon? Sie waren jung, und man hat Sie mit Lügen vergiftet, bevor Sie urteilen konnten. Aber wir, - wir haben es gesehen und geschehen lassen! Was war es? Trägheit des Herzens? Gleichgültigkeit? Armut? Egoismus? Verzweiflung? Aber wie konnte es eine solche Pest weren? Meinen Sie, ich denke nicht täglich darüber nach?”
Source: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
“Was wussten Töchter denn von ihren Müttern, sie wussten nichts”
Source: This House Is Mine
“Wasanbon sugar, honey and tofu. Together, they make a silky-smooth pastry crust that gently caresses the lips... while the fluffy, sticky white bean paste melts on the tongue. Its mellow and robust flavor wafting up to tickle the nose! And with every bite, the crisp tartness of apples pop like fireworks, glittering brightly and fading, only to sparkle once again.
Its sweet deliciousness ripples from the mouth straight up to the brain...
a super-heavyweight punch of moist, rich goodness!"
"Yeeah!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, all the judges have looks on their faces! What on earth could have created a flavor that rapturous?!"
"The biggest secret to that flavor is right here, brushed on the underside of the pastry crust...
apple butter!"
"Apple butter?!"
"Hmm..."
It's as simple as its name- grated apple, lemon juice and sugar added into melted butter. The distinctive tang of fruit is melded together harmoniously with mellow butter, creating a spread that can add acidity, saltiness and rich body to a dish!
"Yet making something like this is no mean feat!
Two completely disparate ingredients must be not just mixed but perfectly emulsified together! It's a task akin to perfectly melding oil with water!
Even pro chefs have difficulty bringing out the butter's smooth shine without accidentally letting it separate! Managing it all requires mastery of a very specific cooking technique!"
"Yes, sir!
I did use Monter au Beurre.
It's a technique for finishing sauces...
... common in French cooking!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 28 [Shokugeki no Souma 28]
“Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.”
“Wash me in Florida water and cover me with crystals, so that I may be a new diva.”