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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

We have seen better days.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?" ~Isaiah Coulter

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Why wait to be memorable?

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.