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Wagner, Jane

Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on.

Wagner, Robert

As a parent you just hang on for the ride.

Waldoks , Dr. Moshe

A sense of humor can help you over look the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

Waldrip, Mary

Each year it takes less time to cross the country and more time to get to work.

Walters, Barbara

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Walters, Barbara

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Walters, Dottie

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Warhol, Andy

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Washington, Booker T.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Washington, Denzel

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Washington, George

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, Martha

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

Washling, Marcus

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Watterson, Bill

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Wayne, John

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Weil, Simone

There will be less external discipline the more internal discipline there is.

Weiler, H.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Weinberger, Harry

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Weinstein, Dave

In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing. But you could see it.

Weldon, Fay

Hell is not other people. Hell is no other people.

Wells, H.G.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Welty, Eudora

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

West, Jane

As wise people often defeat their aims by too great caution, cunning also frequently overshoots the mark by too much craft.

West, Jessamyn

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

West, Mae

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

West, Mae

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

West, Mae

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

West, Mae

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

West, Mae

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

West, Mae

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

West, Mae

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

West, Rebecca

Just how difficult it is to write a biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

West, Rebecca

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Wharton, Edith

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Wharton, Edith

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Wharton, Edith

Life is either a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.

Wheatley, Phillis

Imagination! who can sing thy force? Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode.

White, Elwyn Brooks (E. B.)

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Whitehorn, Katherine

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay for doing it.

Whitman, Walt

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Whitman, Walt

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Wiener, Suzan L.

The person who says "I won't say another word" always does.

Wiesel, Elie

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Wiesel, Elie

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Wilde, Oscar

A good friend stabs you in the front.

Wilde, Oscar

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Wilde, Oscar

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Wilde, Oscar

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Wilde, Oscar

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Wilde, Oscar

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Wilde, Oscar

Only the shallow know themselves.

Wilde, Oscar

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Wilde, Oscar

Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the results.

Wilde, Oscar

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Wilder, Billy

Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Willard, Frances

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Williams, Bern

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bern

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Williams, Bern

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Williams, Robin

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

Williams, Tennessee

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Wilson, Earl

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Wilson, Ethel

Dullness is a misdemeanor.

Winfrey, Oprah

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Winfrey, Oprah

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Winfrey, Oprah

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Winters, Jonathan

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Winters, Shelley

I'm not overweight, I'm just nine inches too short.

Winters, Shelley

We had a lot in common, I loved him and he loved him.

Wolfe, Thomas

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Wolff, Tobias

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Wooden, John

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Woolf, Virginia

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Woolf, Virginia

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Woolf, Virginia

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Wordsworth, William

That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wright, Steven

The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.

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