John Whiting Quotes

I could count on one hand the number of things we were able to save.

John Whiting

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler
- Man
- Culture
- Hand
Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

Wale
- Life
- Real
- Trying
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

E. L. Konigsburg
- Up
- Feeling
- Small
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Yanis Varoufakis
- Life
- Truth
- Game
I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

Adam Peaty
- Want
- Hand
- Water
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

Bayard Taylor
- Time
- War
- Hand