Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
GEORGE WALD All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The...
GEORGE WALD The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
GEORGE WALD Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
GEORGE WALD The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
GEORGE WALD It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy i...
GEORGE WALD A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
GEORGE WALD Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions ...
GEORGE WALD As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in ...
GEORGE WALD I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
GEORGE WALD There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological ...
GEORGE WALD A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
GEORGE WALD As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
GEORGE WALD We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human l...
GEORGE WALD I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving mol...
GEORGE WALD I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
GEORGE WALD A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small bo...
GEORGE WALD We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t...
GEORGE WALD A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
GEORGE WALD It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. T...
GEORGE WALD There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in t...
GEORGE WALD The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
GEORGE WALD You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches ...
GEORGE WALD Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there be...
ERIC WALD Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to alway...
ERIC WALD When we use fresh sperm, the surgical procedures for the sperm retrieval and egg retrieval need to b...
MOSHE WALD Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was ...
DAVID WALD Blues was the rap of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a new popular style that so-called respectable peop...
ELIJAH WALD This is not your father's B-52. This is not the Vietnam B-52, ... This thing has been modified over ...
CHARLES WALD The weather is improving, and we're flying around the clock more, and we have the ability to service...
CHARLES WALD Any target in Kosovo that's a military target will be vulnerable from these aircraft.
CHARLES WALD As a matter of fact, just the contrary. I mean, we're moving more equipment in, we have the weapons ...
CHARLES WALD The reason I say that is that I have zero trust for what (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic or ...
CHARLES WALD That's triple A, air-to-air artillery, being fired at this A-10 ,
CHARLES WALD It could have a bad fin. It could have some disruption of the laser. But generally speaking, it's us...
CHARLES WALD They might have passed the acid test of being too big.
JAN WALD We are going to attack the enemy in the field that could be hidden in tree lines. They could be hidd...
CHARLES WALD should have destroyed the remainder of the aircraft, munitions and supplies that were in that tunnel...
CHARLES WALD They were being nickel-and-dimed by J&J. They had to get out of that loop.
JAN WALD After disco, there really was a change. Generally, there were no more straight-up-Southern blues-roo...
ELIJAH WALD Nowadays in the black community, you'll find older people interested in the blues simply because it'...
ELIJAH WALD It's going to take a little bit of time to get the feel for that. You can only get that from playing...
JAKE WALD The pitching has been so good that when the guys are hitting their spots it's a lot easier playing b...
JAKE WALD It's a bird in the hand.
JAN WALD I think they easily could go up to $76 without a lot of damage.
JAN WALD I don't believe these things are going to matter for Boston Scientific. This is a strategic deal for...
JAN WALD I think they (St. Jude) definitely look like they are in play. They certainly would be an attractive...
JAN WALD After all the noise they made, there would certainly be a lot of questions asked (if they raised the...
JAN WALD It's death by a thousand cuts.
JAN WALD I certainly think it could be a stand-alone company. I'm not certain it should be.
JAN WALD I think there are some actions the company will have to take and some expenses the company will have...
JAN WALD There's a lot of frustration among institutional shareholders and employees who own the stock.
JAN WALD One thing the company loses by not being part of J&J is not having more money for market development...
JAN WALD EdgeTrade.com is the next generation of online broker dealer. What we do is take the customer's expe...
JOE WALD It doesn't let people's order be handled by anybody but themselves. Rather than having a customer or...
JOE WALD Obviously the area is making up for that decline.
MICHAEL WALD The issue for the coming year is whether workers will be able to catch up on their wages.
MICHAEL WALD It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL