W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?”
Source: Sleep It Off Lady: Stories
“Wasn't it strange--when she was little and so far away from being grown-up that she couldn't even imagine she'd ever get there, she had tried to act grown-up; yet now, when the time seemed just around the corner of her life, she wanted to hold fast to the dear, familiar, childish things.”
Source: The Good Land
“Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping?”
Source: Harvest of Sighs
“Wasn't me who said capitalism was wrong. I just didn't want another argument with Carol. Big projects need capital. It's when the people who have the capital get laws made in their favour that it all goes bad.”
Source: Facing the Flame
“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain."
"But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"
"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Wasn't one of the goals of life to comfortable in your own skin and in your own bed and on your own land? But as soon as you achieved it, you felt an immense sadness, and then you wanted to wreck everything around you, just because you could. Comfort was the best thing, and maybe the worst.”
Source: The Uncoupling
“Wasn't that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you'd been during the time you had been living there. The many ways it brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.”
“Wasn’t that the whole point of the trail? To embrace growth as a journey, not some finished destination? To be okay just wandering, not sure where that wandering might take you?”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing.”
Source: The Man Who Quit Money
“Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest?
"Exactly that," said Ferguson.”
Source: A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum
“Wasn't this what siblings, even younger ones, were for? Someone else to see the monster in the closet. The blood on the bed.”
Source: Listen to Your Sister
“Wasn't wishing someone unprotected the same as wishing them harm?”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?”
Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
“Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?”
“Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that see themselves as progressive, and on the side of the weak. They demonize the powerful, but over-romanticize the weak. I think we should recognize that. If you take seriously the idea that people are always going to use truth claims as a means of powering their own agenda, that is going to happen whether you're weak or powerful.”
“Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?”
“Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.”
“Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?”
“Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Wasn't making any great connection
Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme
Nothing that would pass inspection
Just thinking of a series of dreams”
“Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.”
Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life
“Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.”
“Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience.”
“Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said.”
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
“Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
Source: The Help
“Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.”
Source: Paint It Black: A Novel
“Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?”
Source: The Interestings: A Novel
“Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.”
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
“Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?”
Source: The Hollow Tree
“Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?”
Source: Attachments: A Novel
“Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
“Wasn’t that kind of the basis of passion? I didn’t know that either. The only thing I knew for sure was that this kiss had been a lot like the last one. Nice, but it didn’t blow me away. My heart sank. There was something wrong with me. Everyone was always going on about how socially inept I was. Did it extend to romance as well? Was I so cold that I’d spend my life never feeling anything?”
“Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.”
Source: Substitute Bride
“Wasser’s (conservation detection) dogs are young mixed-breeds from shelters because that's where dogs with excessive energy and borderline-obsessive personalities wind up. A dog with what he calls, gently, "fixation with the ball," a strong play drive, and high energy is that classically motivated dog that all programs love.”
Source: Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
“Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High”
“WASTE A TALENT LOSE A LIFESTYLE”
Source: Titles Journal/Notebook
“Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.”
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.”
“Waste is antithetical to efficiency. You cannot have one while also having the other. In maximizing one, the other will definitely be minimized. In minimizing one, the other will definitely be maximized.”
“Waste is Criminal.”
Source: Fire
“Waste is more than a crime; it's a mistake.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant