#us

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#careful #must #pretend

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one. ↗

— Honus Wagner

#cold #even #feel #had #hear

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#business #generals #shoot

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#because #belief #cling #danger #defend

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#go #i #material #matter #me

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ↗

— Tom Waits

#continues #culture #enormous #everyone #had

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#chosen #must #respected #wisely

I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#believe #going #i #i do #i think

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#boom #came #considering #good #i