Alec Waugh famous quotes

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You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
-- Alec Waugh

#Falling In Love #Travel #Sight
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.
-- Alec Waugh

#Wine #Today #Kind
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
-- Alec Waugh

#Strong #Moving #Future
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time
-- Alec Waugh

#Wine #Hobbies #Needs
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
-- Alec Waugh

#Men #Doubt #Desire
The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
-- Alec Waugh

#Women #Want #He Man
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
-- Alec Waugh

#Wise #Men #Ideas
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
-- Alec Waugh

#Cities #House #London
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
-- Alec Waugh

#Hands #Desire #World

Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

Alec Waugh famous quotes

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