W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.”
“Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.”
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“Washington is a city of spectacles. Every four years, imposing Presidential inaugurations attract the great and the mighty. Kings, prime ministers, heroes and celebrities of every description have been feted there for more than 150 years. But in its entire glittering history, Washington had never seen a spectacle of the size and grandeur that assembled there on August 28, 1963. Among the nearly 250,000 people who journeyed that day to the capital, there were many dignitaries and many celebrities, but the stirring emotion came from the mass of ordinary people who stood in majestic dignity as witnesses to their single-minded determination to achieve democracy in their time.
They came from almost every state in the union; they came in every form of transportation; they gave up from one to three days' pay plus the cost of transportation, which for many was a heavy financial sacrifice. They were good-humored and relaxed, yet disciplined and thoughtful. They applauded their leaders generously, but the leaders, in their own hearts, applauded their audience. Many a Negro speaker that day had his respect for his own people deepened as he felt the strength of their dedication. The enormous multitude was the living, beating heart of an infinitely noble movement. It was an army without guns, but not without strength. It was an army into which no one had to be drafted. It was white and Negro, and of all ages. It had adherents of every faith, members of every class, every profession, every political party, united by a single ideal. It was a fighting army, but no one could mistake that its most powerful weapon was love.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.”
“Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.”
“Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.”
“Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.”
“Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.”
“Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.”
“Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.”
“Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.”
“Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.”
“Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information - outside the administration.”
“Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.”
“Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.”
“Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.”
“Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.”
“Washington is certainly not a city of restaurants, any more than it is a city of theaters. It is a city of official cocktail parties and excellent home-cooked dinners with wonderful conversation afterward and that provides all the entertaining anyone needs. It's also a city of whispering, maneuvering, tattling, declaiming - a city that's still having growing pains, that naive in spite of its imagined sophistication, that's beautiful in the same way an adolescent is beautiful, though he insists on pretending to a maturity and a mellowness that he hasn't achieved.”
Source: Joy Street
“Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.”
“Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.”
“Washington is dominated by big money.”
“Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.”
“Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.”
“Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.”
“Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.”
“Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.”
“Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions”
“Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”
“Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.”
“Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!”
“Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.”
“Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned”
Source: The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings
“Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.”
“Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.”
“Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.”
“Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.”
“Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people.”
Source: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
“Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.”
Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners
“Washington, like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington was a Deist, and did not commune, which is quite consistent with his being a vestryman. In England, where vestries have secular functions, it is not unusual for Unitarians to vestrymen, there being no doctrinal subscription required for that office. Washington's letters during the Revolution occasionally indicate his recognition of the hand of Providence in notable public events, but in the thousands of his letters I have never been able to find the name of Christ or any reference to him.
{Conway was employed to edit Washington's letters}”
“Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.”
“Washington newspaper men know everything.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography
“Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”
Source: Washington: A Life
“Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.”
Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
“Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.”
“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast.”
Source: Freedom
“Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.”
“Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.”