#were

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #beijing #care #create #enjoy

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#cases #destruction #documented #financial #financially

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#family #father #i #instrument #just

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#boarding #britain #diplomat #expected #fact

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#certain #could #days #god #himself

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#characters #games #make #plots #predetermined

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#could #done #education #every #every man

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#days #feel #happiest #i #quite

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#any #been #behave #chance #cheerful

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#crisis #farm #i #maybe #people