Quotations
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
- William McKinley quotes
War then is a relation not between man and man, but between State and State, and individuals are enemies only accidentally, not as men, nor as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau quotes
War to the knife.
- Jose De Palafox quotes
War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin quotes
Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot-no bags-in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.
- Lynn Fontanne quotes
Warm words from David Cameron cannot wipe out the memories of 18 years of Tory government that left a legacy in our towns and cities of homelessness, repossessions and mass unemployment.
- John Prescott quotes
Warney really is special. It's obviously the last time he'll play a Test in England and I felt for him when he walked off the ground. [2005 at The Oval]
- Simon Jones quotes
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
- Salvador Dali quotes
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero quotes
Was I injured? No, it was a bit of a misunderstanding that I came off. Wayne had taken a kick in the Achilles and I signalled to the bench to change him - and they changed me. [on a farcical substitution]
- Steven Gerrard quotes
Was I the greatest darts player? Perhaps.
- Eric Bristow quotes
Was I the perfect mum? No... I think you have to let them follow their dreams, I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't
- Lynne Spears quotes
Was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
- Sharon Stone quotes
Was it the magna carta or the magna charta, as in the first 'charter'?
- Stan Stevens quotes
Was it through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey? (Addressed to T. H. Huxley)
- Samuel Wilberforce quotes
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
- Joan Didion quotes
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
- Christopher Marlowe quotes
Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
- Howard Hughes quotes
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- Paulo Freire quotes
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Robert Orben quotes
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
- Alistair Cooke quotes
Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
- Dennis Miller quotes
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
- Francesco Guicciardini quotes
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
- Baltasar Gracian quotes
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
- Richard Hammond quotes
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
- Jim Bishop quotes
Water for me is so essential, like swimming
- Nastassja Kinski quotes
Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. (Olympian Odes)
- Pindar quotes
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
- Edward Koch quotes
Waugh walks to the wicket with the known supremacy of the forbidding headmaster entering a Victorian classroom [on Steve Waugh]
- David Hopps quotes
Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him
- Sir Alex Ferguson quotes
Wayne Rooney doesn't score tap-ins.
- Sir Alex Ferguson quotes
Wayne Rooney is the golden boy of English football. Don't kill him because you will need him.
- Sven Goran Eriksson quotes
Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun [on Wayne Rooney]
- David Beckham quotes
We (the ICC) take a zero tolerance approach to doping in cricket. We are a signatory to the World Anti Doping Agency code
- Malcolm Speed quotes
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
- Prince Charles quotes
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
- Camilla Parker Bowles quotes
We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised.
- Ian McNail quotes
We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
- James Oppenheim quotes
