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What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.

– Tony KushnerRate it:

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

– Kurt VonnegutRate it:

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.

– French ProverbRate it:

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

– Norman CousinsRate it:

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

– Barack ObamaRate it:

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

– Henry MillerRate it:

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

– Kamala HarrisRate it:

What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.

– Benjamin DisraeliRate it:

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

– Author UnknownRate it:

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

– Thomas CarlyleRate it:

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

– Henry Havelock EllisRate it:

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

– Havelock EllisRate it:

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

– Stephen LeacockRate it:

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

– Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleRate it:

What we call life is only talk of nature.

– dejan stojanovicRate it:

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

– Robertson DaviesRate it:

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

– George Eliot, MiddlemarchRate it:

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

– CiceroRate it:

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

– Havelock EllisRate it:

What we call results are beginnings.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

– T. S. EliotRate it:

What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.

– The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)Rate it:

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