W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.”
“Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.”
“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.”
“Washington took Howard Jones' advice and moved closer to the Indonesian armed forces to construct an anti-communist front. In 1953 and 1954, there were about a dozen Indonesian officers training in the United States, and that number dropped to zero in 1958, the year Alan Pope bombed Ambon. In 1959, Zero became 41, and by 1962, there were more than 1,000 Indonesians studying operations, intelligence, and logistics, mostly at the Fort Leavenworth Army Base.
This new approach dovetailed with a growing consensus within the United States that the military should be given more power and influence in the third world, even if it meant undermining democracy.”
Source: The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
“Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.”
“Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.”
Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events
“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times
“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)”
“Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.”
Source: Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
“Washington's a cesspool of money.”
“Washington's a dangerous place.”
“Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'”
“Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.”
Source: Speeches and Writings
“Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”
“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”
Source: Letter from America, 1946-2004
“Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.”
“Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'”
“Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.”
“Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.”
“Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.”
“Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.”
“Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.”
“Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.”
“Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.”
“Washington, DC does not have to live with much of what they produce legislatively for us.”
“Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.”
“Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.”
“Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.”
Source: Life of George Washington
“Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.”
“Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.”
“Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.”
“Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.”
“Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.”
“Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.”
“Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.”
“WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great dead American would be scandalized over some crime against How It Used to Be. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).”
Source: This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital
“Wasifu wa viongozi wa Kolonia Santita ni siri kwa sababu siri ni siri ya mafanikio.”
“Wasihi watoto wako kuipenda nchi yao.”
“Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.”
“Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.”
Source: Beach Music
“wasn't choosy about breasts. Large ones, pert ones. Dark nipples or fair. Alabaster or freckled. So far as he was concerned, the most comely pair of breasts in the world was always the pair he was currently tasting.”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Wasn’t I allowed at least one nervous breakdown a year? Maybe next year Jon and I could pencil it into our calendar. Maybe we could post it in the church bulletin. It would read “ATTENTION: Our Dear Pastor’s wife is scheduling her annual nervous breakdown, so if you could avoid calling, texting, emailing, or whining in her direction for the next week between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., she would be most grateful.”
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.”
Source: 1Q84
“Wasn’t it correct in America to call a man ‘handsome’ rather than ‘beautiful’?”
Source: Our Young Man
“Wasn't it enough that our bodies, our limbs hurt? Why did we also have to hurt in our heart, the pain tucked so deeply in the soft tissue that we couldn't just pluck it out?”
Source: Six Days in Bombay
“Wasn’t it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?” “History’s first intelligence failure,” said Gabriel. “Imagine how things might have turned out for the Jewish people if Moses had chosen another plot of land.”
“Wasn’t it odd how children could be so fascinated by magic? It took them time and the lessons of the Chantry to learn real fear.”