Quotations
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W G Grace was by no conceivable standard a good man. He was a cheat on and off the cricket field.
- C P Snow quotes
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour
- Gioacchino Rossini quotes
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain quotes
Wait a minute, Doc - are you telling me you built a time machine out of a Delorean?
- Michael J Fox quotes
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. (Just a smack at Auden, 1940)
- Sir William Empson quotes
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
- Theodor Geisel quotes
Waiting for the German verb is the ultimate thrill
- Rene O'Brien quotes
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
- Paris Hilton quotes
Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death (Beasts and super-Beasts)
- Saki quotes
Walk and talk, walk and talk.
- Dermot O'Leary quotes
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
- Virginia Woolf quotes
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone; you'll never walk alone.
- Oscar Hammerstein II quotes
Walking is man's best medicine.
- Hippocrates quotes
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.
- Simon Schama quotes
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
- Vince Poscente quotes
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
- Benjamin Graham quotes
Walter sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'
- Connie Chung quotes
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
- Anthony Robbins quotes
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
- Mao Zedong quotes
War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- Jay Leno quotes
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
- Hannah Arendt quotes
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
- Albert Pike quotes
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
- John Stuart Mill quotes
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueller it is the
sooner it will be over.
- William Sherman quotes
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
- Ambrose Bierce quotes
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
- Lois McMaster Bujold quotes
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means (Vom Kriege)
- Karl Von Clausewitz quotes
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann quotes
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
- Marianne Moore quotes
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
- Karl Von Clausewitz quotes
War is the national industry of Prussia.
- Comte De Mirabeau quotes
War is the province of danger.
- Karl Von Clausewitz quotes
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
- Lewis Mumford quotes
War is the trade of kings.
- John Dryden quotes
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
- Barbara Tuchman quotes
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
- Georges Clemenceau quotes
War is, after all, the universal perversion... war stories, the pornography of war. (The Custard Boys 1960)
- John Rae quotes
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert quotes
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
- Alexander Berkman quotes
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
- Charles E Hughes quotes
