W Quotes
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“Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms.”
“Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.”
“Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is.”
“Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.”
“Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.”
“Wrestling through her introspection has coloured her views of life, people and relationships. And working it out, with all the excitement, pain and fear that went with it, has given her a strong sense of herself. She knows who she is because of it. Not only that: it has given her a strong bond to those who are also, in different ways and for different reasons, disconnected from society. ironically, she is connected to the Aaron's and Kyra's of this world by the fact that they are each of them disconnected.”
Source: One Moment, One Morning
“Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.”
“Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.”
“Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.”
“Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of "having it all fatigue": women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home.”
“Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.”
“Wretch! I shan’t allow you to take a rise out of me! I want to talk to you about Jane!”
“Who the devil is—Oh, yes, I know! One of your girls!”
“My eldest daughter, and, let me remind you, your niece, Alverstoke!”
“Unjust, Louisa, I needed no reminder!”
“I am bringing the dear child out this season,”[...]
“You’ll have to do something about her freckles—if she’s the one I think she is,” he interrupted. “Have you tried citron-water?”
“I didn’t invite you to come here to discuss Jane’s appearance!” she snapped.
“Well, why did you invite me?”
“To ask you to hold a ball in her honour—at Alverstoke House!” she disclosed, rushing her fence.
“To do what?”
Source: Frederica
“Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.”
“Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.”
“Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.”
“Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.”
“Wretched therefore as you may think it, I feel it no source of anguish to be associated with the blind, the afflicted, the infirm, and the mourners; since I may this hope that I am more immediately under the favour and protection of my dread Father”
Source: Second Defense of the People of England
“Wretched un-idea'd girls.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions
“Wretched unfair, it is,” he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed to snag the world’s most unusual women. First you, Crispin, with the only living half-breed, who then turned into an even more unusual vampire. And now you, Charles, have bagged a shape-shifter. Thought you were joking when you said Denise was the kitty. I’m simply green with jealousy”
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”
“Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans.”
“Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.”
“Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.”
“Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.”
“Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.”
“Wring his neck, then boil him! Make sure he’s nice and tender too. I’ll come back to eat him this evening.”
Source: Wangye, Your Consort Is a Walking Disaster: (Esthalis: Nire)
“Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.”
“Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.”
“Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.”
“Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon, flashing neon beer sign.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Wrinkles are a sign of life and the love we receive from far above. Cherish them all, and don’t allow them to become your downfall. After all, wrinkles are here to teach us all”
“Wrinkles are devastating for women! A quite undeserved punishment! Because no woman deserves a wrinkled face. Wrinkles should be hidden in the heart, or perhaps not, perhaps not even in your heart, because wrinkles there might be fatal and we ought not to die, though we might as well, because when a woman has wrinkles she's already half dead, and couldn't care less if she died.”
Source: Forty Lost Years
“Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.”
“Wrinkles are engraved smiles.”
“Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.”
“Wrinkles are the geometries that time puts on the face of man.”
“Wrinkles happen to human beings.”
“Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.”
“Wrinkles only exist in the mirror. Break the mirror and the wrinkles are gone.”
Source: The New Land
“Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)”
Source: LONE WALK FROM PANTHER CREEK: BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Dirty Little Secrets - Reader Discretion Advised
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
“Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction; marks of maturity.”
Source: Impromptu Scribe
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”
“Wrists are made for bracelets, not cutting.”