#nation

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #being #being alone #characters #child

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in? ↗

— Jim Wallis

#committed #complicit #dangerous #evil #god

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#based #conscience #extremely #finally #important

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #before #die #driven #eight

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#dying #i #national #quotation #vice

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#beautiful city #certain #city #convenient #growing

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#appropriate #commonwealth #could #export #framework

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past

I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy. ↗

— Allen West

#associated #becomes #brotherhood #cultural #groups