Wipe Quotes

• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Broken Heart, Stars

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• When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Numbers, America

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

  Tyga

  Yesterday, Everyday, Tears

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Opponents

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

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• May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

  Chief Dan George

  Stars, Flower, Condolences

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• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Teaching, Persistence

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• This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

  Drew Brees

  Diapers, Way, Flats

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• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Islam, Wiping Out

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• Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Kids, Thinking, Should

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• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  Victor Borge

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Knives

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Unemployment, Gone

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

  Philip Wollen

  Animal, Mass Extinction, Years

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• I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Saws, Scared

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• Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Noses, Stranger

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• Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Names, Way, Ass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
  wipes them out.

  Samuel Beckett

  Winter, Night, Drawing

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.56, Grove Press

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• Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loyalty, Suicide, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Men, Shadow

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

  Barbara Mertz

  Memories, Years, Soul

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• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Daughter, Hardship

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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