Woodrow Wyatt famous quotes

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"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
-- Woodrow Wyatt

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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt

#Children #Want #Way
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
-- Woodrow Wyatt

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No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
-- Woodrow Wyatt

#Country #Games #Gone
If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.
-- Woodrow Wyatt

#Running #Enthusiasm #Done

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

Woodrow Wyatt famous quotes

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