#po

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#code #only #priestly #rests #result

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#does #every #first #first step #his

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#big #big difference #difference #faces #just

Politicians often lie. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#often #politicians

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#become #decisions #intelligence #made #many

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ↗

— James Whistler

#conversation #going #impossible #other #people

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #career #career politicians #done #had

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#both #curious #disappointed #marry #men