Weentsiest Quotes & Sayings

It's good tying the sack before it be full. — George Herbert

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. — Alfred Von Tirpitz

A ninnyhammer," Jane said, "sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those. — Courtney Milan

The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years. — Erin McKean

But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. — Roger Rosenblatt

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. — Herbie Hancock

He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his blindness was the colour of waves breaking — Howard Jacobson

I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again. — Charlotte Bronte

Do you think the Devil is real then?" she asked. If God wasn't up in heaven answering a desperate mother's prayers then maybe Satan didn't exist either.

"He is real," Gabriel answered quietly, his voice almost a whisper. "I look him in the eye every day. — Evangeline Ravencraft

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — Douglas Coupland