All Quotes

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
‐‐ C. V. Raman

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.
‐‐ Merrill Markoe

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.
‐‐ Robin Trower

A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.
‐‐ Robert Webb

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.
‐‐ Britt Robertson

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
‐‐ Susie Orbach

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
‐‐ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
‐‐ Albert Pike

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
‐‐ C. J. Cherryh

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
‐‐ Claud Cockburn

A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.
‐‐ Luke Evans

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
‐‐ Kelly Slater

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.
‐‐ Brian Eno

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
‐‐ Jennifer Tilly

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
‐‐ Ross Perot

A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
‐‐ Antoine Lavoisier

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
‐‐ Jet Li

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.
‐‐ Pedro Reyes

A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.
‐‐ David Rusenko

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.
‐‐ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
‐‐ Eric Idle

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
‐‐ Paul Sweeney

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
‐‐ Eddie Cantor

A wedding is such a girl thing.
‐‐ Selma Blair

A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.
‐‐ Alison Brie

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
‐‐ Doug Larson

A weed is but an unloved flower.
‐‐ Ella Wheeler Wilcox