Telegrams Send Quotes & Sayings

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' — Joe Klein

A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There was so much light in the world we knew we would never be able to count it all. — Alice Hoffman

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. — Henry Ward Beecher

Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram. — Jesse Owens

Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.
Either They have put him here for a reason, or he's just here. He isn't sure that he wouldn't actually, rather have that reason ... — Thomas Pynchon

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams. — Charlotte Whitton

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see. — Douglas Alexander

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this. — Confucius

Complexity looks at simplicity and laughs at it for being too simple. But this is stupidity. Which is more valuable? The drop of pure rose oil or the cologne that mixes that one drop with many other things in order to make it affordable enough? It takes 60,000 roses to make a single ounce of rose oil. In simplicity there is value, there is meaning. Complexity is what happens when value and meaning are watered down. Don't play games with pure-hearted people; they don't need your rubbish. And don't try to water them down so you can afford them. — C. JoyBell C.