#story

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#car #cell #cell phone #company #departments

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#becomes #between #catastrophe #education #human

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#clubs #even #everybody #grew #i

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#band members #complaint #cuban #grain #his

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#constantly #cultural #fiction #history #i

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously. ↗

— Michael Welch

#each #i #i am #seriously #story

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass

History is a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#catastrophe #education #history #race

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#civil #colonists #condition #conduct #cultivation

There is a noble and a base side to every history. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth

#every #history #noble #side